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Bears Circle AI as Earnings Season Opens

Q2 earnings season is now underway. Markets are focused on what big banks and a handful of high-profile names will report in the days ahead. BAC kicks things off Monday, July 14. BNY follows Tuesday. Wednesday is the…

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Bears Load Up on AI and Pets Into Earnings

Short interest signals and news flow are pointing to elevated hedging pressure on several names as earnings season kicks off this week. CoreWeave sits at the sharpest edge. Short interest stands at 33.1% of free float…

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Big Banks and Netflix Headline Busy Week

Q2 earnings season kicks into high gear this week. Major financials and a streaming giant are all set to report. BAC kicks things off Monday, July 14. Bank of America reports Q2 results before the open. AEHR also…

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Analysts Back IFF, Flag Semis and Pharma

Analyst activity on Friday points to a broad upgrade for IFF. The consensus rating on International Flavors & Fragrances moved up. The average target price stands at $91.21. The $20 billion specialty chemicals company…

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Insiders Dump, Buy in Busy Week

Executives and major shareholders filed a flurry of notable trades this week, spanning luxury retail, energy, and tech. RH CEO Sells $11.7M. RH Chairman and CEO Gary Friedman filed two sales totalling $11.7M on July 8.…

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Bears Pile Into AI, Chips, and Pets

Short sellers are busy this earnings season. Wolfspeed now sits at an extraordinary 103% SI % FF — shorts exceed the entire free float. That's up from 98.6% a week ago. Availability has hit zero. Borrowing costs stand…

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Earnings Season Starts, Bears Circle AI Names

The week's biggest story is already building. Q2 earnings season kicks off in earnest, with major banks up first. Bank of America and BNY Mellon report Monday and Tuesday respectively. UnitedHealth Group steps up…

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Big Banks and Netflix Headline Busy Week

Q2 earnings season hits full stride this week. Banks dominate Monday and Tuesday before the spotlight swings to streaming on Thursday. Bank of America kicks off Monday, July 14, releasing Q2 2026 results pre-market.…

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Wall Street Lifts Fragrances, Chips, Pharma

Analysts upgraded IFF to a consensus buy on Friday. International Flavors & Fragrances now has 15 buy ratings. The consensus target price stands at $91.21. Short interest runs at 7.2% of free float — modest, suggesting…

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Insiders Buy Big, Bosses Cash Out

Fresh filings show a split picture on Wall Street. On one side, a 10% shareholder at AVO spent over $24M buying Mission Produce shares across three days this week. The purchases — filed July 8 and 9 — came in at prices…

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Bears Circle CoreWeave as Wolfspeed Hits 103%

Short sellers are piling into CoreWeave fast. The AI cloud stock's short interest hit 33.1% of free float on July 9. That's up from 28.3% just one week earlier — a 4.76 percentage point jump in seven days. Wolfspeed…

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Banks, Bears, and a Blockbuster Week Ahead

Q2 earnings season accelerates this week with a heavy slate of financial names. BAC, JNJ, and BNY report Tuesday. WFC enters its print with peers already rising and options volatility near multi-month lows — a calm…

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Big Banks Lead Packed Earnings Week

Monday kicks off a heavy week for Q2 results. BAC reports Tuesday morning. JNJ and BNY also drop numbers on Tuesday. Wednesday brings one of the week's biggest moments. NFLX releases Q2 results after the close.…

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Analysts Raise Energy, Trim Airlines and Pharma

Wall Street made a string of target price adjustments on Friday. Energy names led the upgrades while airlines and pharma faced cuts. Targa Resources drew the most bullish shift. The consensus target rose to $288, up…

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Street-Wide Target Lifts Frame State Street's Q2 Test

STT heads into its July 14 Q2 print carried by the broadest pre-earnings analyst upgrade wave the stock has seen in recent memory. The analyst consensus has shifted decisively more constructive. Every major firm that…

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PGR Options Drift Higher as Analysts Chase the Print

PGR heads into Tuesday's July 15 earnings release with options traders turning measurably more defensive, even as the stock has pulled back slightly from the highs that triggered last week's analyst scramble. The…

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Omnicom Shorts Retreat as Insiders Sold Into Strength

OMC heads into its July 14 Q2 print with one of the more contradictory positioning setups in the advertising sector: short sellers have been aggressively covering, while the company's own executives were selling into…

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NGG Options Traders Turn Defensive as July Print Approaches

NGG heads into its July 14 results with the most notable pre-earnings signal coming not from short sellers — who remain largely absent — but from the options market, which has turned sharply more defensive in the past…

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