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Total US short interest exceeded $1 trillion as of last Friday, S3 Partners data shows.
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The top five shorts are mega-cap tech stocks Tesla, Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia and Amazon.
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That comes after big stock market gains so far this year.
US short interest this month rose to the highest level since April 2022, as investors bet that the current bull run in stock market is set to falter.
According to data from S3 Partners, the amount spent by short sellers against US stocks hit $1.02 trillion, as of Friday. Those bets came even as the continued to rally earlier this month, costing short sellers $101 billion.
S3 data shows that the top shorts are Tesla, Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, and