Short interest in Nuveen Mortgage And Income Fund (NYSE:JLS) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 8.26K to 24.28K. This put 0.61% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 21.33K shares traded per day, it would take 1.14 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.