Short interest in iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF (BATS:GOVT) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 48.05M to 44.65M. This put -% of the company's publicly available shares short.

Based on the recent average volume of 15.08M shares traded per day, it would take 2.96 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.