The Select Sector SPDR Trust - State Street Utilities Select Sector SPDR ETF
ARCAXLU has spent the past month quietly building one of its more notable short positions of the year, even as the broader narrative around utilities remains defensive and income-friendly. Short interest is the most interesting angle here. At 11.7% of free float, the position is elevated by any standard for a broad-market ETF — and the month-on-month surge tells the real story. Short…
XLU utilization hits 91.13%, near its 52-week peak of 100%, as available shares to borrow grow scarce for the utilities sector ETF.
XLU has spent the past month quietly building one of its more notable short positions of the year, even as the broader narrative around utilities remains defensive and income-friendly. Short interest is the most…
XLU enters the back half of July with short interest entrenched near its highest levels of the past month, yet the borrow market has swung decisively in the opposite direction — a split that defines the current…
Snapshot as of 6 Aug 2026
XLU has flipped direction — short interest is climbing again after weeks of retreat, yet the borrow market tells a different story, with availability now at its most comfortable in months. The reversal in short…
XLU enters the second week of July with short sellers continuing to exit and the borrow market now the loosest it has been since the June squeeze — a striking reversal from conditions six weeks ago. The short-covering…
XLU ends the week in a notably different place from where it spent most of June — short interest has fallen to its lowest level in over a month, and the borrow market has shifted from crisis-tight to comfortably…
XLU just delivered the sharpest single-day short unwind of its recent cycle — and the borrow market has flipped almost overnight from very tight to genuinely loose. Yesterday's note flagged a tightening borrow market…
The "stabilisation" story from last week is over. XLU shorts are back on the move — and the borrow market is responding fast. Short interest has climbed to 11.3% of the free float. That's a 10.4% weekly jump in shares…
XLU, the Utilities Select Sector SPDR, is consolidating the dramatic short unwind flagged in last week's note — shorts have largely stopped retreating, the borrow market has settled into a new equilibrium, and the ETF…
XLU, the Utilities Select Sector SPDR, has seen a dramatic reversal in short positioning this week — a meaningful shift from the bearish buildup that defined much of May and early June. The story this week is a rapid…
XLU, the Utilities Select Sector SPDR, heads into the first week of June carrying its largest short position in over a month — and the direction of travel is accelerating in one clear direction. Short interest has…
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