Short interest in Nuveen Core Equity Alpha Fund (NYSE:JCE) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 5.51K to 5.64K. This put 0.04% of the company's publicly available shares short.

Short interest for Nuveen Core Equity Alpha gives investors a sense of the degree to which investors are betting on the decline of Nuveen Core Equity Alpha's stock. Short interest data is updated every two weeks.

Based on the recent average volume of 23.48K shares traded per day, it would take 1 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.