Short interest in Western Asset Inflation-Linked Opportunities and Income Fund (NYSE:WIW) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 143.83K to 264.63K. This put -% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 204.92K shares traded per day, it would take 1.29 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.