Short interest in Aberdeen Japan Equity Fund Inc (NYSE:JEQ) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 21.27K to 28.87K. This put 0.44% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 61.81K 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.