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Unlock a detailed view of the cost to borrow securities. This endpoint provides rich and actionable insights into the security lending fees associated with short selling and offers you a clear perspective on market behavior.

This API returns data for multiple stocks — every constituent of a market index, or of one of your own universes — for the specified date.

Available Data Points:

• Date: The specific date for which the data is retrieved (YYYY-MM-DD format).
• Exchange Symbol: Symbol of the exchange where the security trades.
• Ticker: The ticker symbol associated with the security.
• Company Name: The name of the company issuing the security.
• Ortex Company ID: Unique id for a company.
• Ortex Security ID: Unique id for a security issued by a company.
• Ortex Tradable Item ID: Unique id for a listing of a security.
• Cost to borrow all: The average lending fees for all outstanding loans presented as an annual percentage rate.
• Cost to borrow new: The average lending fees for all new loans taken out in the last trading day presented as an annual percentage rate.

Try it out! You can test the API with the trial key TEST. Simply include it in your request headers; either here, or add the header "Ortex-Api-Key": "TEST" to your http request.

Trial key restrictions: Trial keys may be limited to a specific date range and set of regions. Requests outside the allowed regions or entirely outside the allowed date range are rejected; a date window that partially overlaps the allowed range is trimmed to it, reported in meta.restriction.

Get full access! Get a key at app.ortex.com/apis