Short interest in Vale SA (NYSE:VALE) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 67.43M to 60.39M. This put 1.42% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 32.58M shares traded per day, it would take 1.85 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.