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Bearish bets on U.S. retailers are closing up shop faster than RadioShack.

The SPDR S&P Retail exchange-traded fund, ticker XRT, saw short interest as a percentage of current shares outstanding plunge from a whopping 366 percent to below 175 percent in the first two weeks of November, according to exchange data. The ETF advanced by roughly 12 percent this month.