There was net short covering in eight of the ten major sectors with Consumer Discretionary and Information Technology receiving the largest short interest outflows of $3.1 billion and $2.5 billion, respectively. The only sectors with net short selling were Health Care and Utilities, in which traders opened new short positions worth $457 million and $183 million, respectively.
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