The Select Sector SPDR Trust - State Street Materials Select Sector SPDR ETF
ARCAShort interest in XLB — the Materials Select Sector SPDR ETF — has fallen sharply. It is now at 26.4% of float, down 15.5% over the past week and 18.3% over the past month. Yet the borrow market tells a different…
Why this matters — Three distinct ORTEX data signals have aligned on XLB, the Materials Select Sector SPDR ETF, within days of each other. The combination of near-maximum short utilization, a sharp single-session drop…
Snapshot as of 6 May 2026
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