Blackrock didn’t buy shares to lend out to shorters. It’s a fund manager buying on behalf of clients. This isn’t its index funds either, since it’s a large 1% increase, it’s part of its active funds.
Most large fund managers do securities lending, simply to generate extra fees. I personally see it as a conflict of interest given they are a long fund on behalf of its members, not sure how a trustee can justify signing off on something counter productive to their financial interest. But anyway, those definitions always stretched and never looked at.
Blackrock didn’t buy shares to lend out to shorters. It’s a fund...
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| Open | High | Low | Value | Volume |
| $8.00 | $8.09 | $7.93 | $55.20M | 6.878M |
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| No. | Vol. | Price($) |
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| 1 | 690 | $8.03 |
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| $8.05 | 19266 | 2 |
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