CRWV is one of the week's sharpest moves. Short interest jumped to 29.4% of free float — up 5.7 percentage points in seven days. The AI cloud company saw a founder sell $7.1M in stock. That insider sale appears to have emboldened the bears.
HTZ is the most dramatic story. Short interest sits at 60.8% of free float, up nearly 12 points over the past week. Availability has hit zero — no shares left to borrow. That's a classic short-squeeze setup for the battered rental car firm.
SOC (Sable Offshore) also looks squeezable. SI climbed to 33.9%, availability at zero, and cost-to-borrow at 2.6%. Short sellers are paying up to stay short.
On the squeeze side, CDE (Coeur Mining) saw the biggest short cover of the week. SI dropped 6.4 points to just 4.7% — a sharp unwind. ECHO (EchoStar) also shed 4 points as bears retreated.
WOLF (Wolfspeed) remains the most extreme name in the market. SI stands at 112.6% of free float — shorts effectively holding more than the entire available float. A squeeze risk that has persisted for weeks.
Macro noise from Fed's Waller around rate policy and surging S&P 500 earnings forecasts is making life harder for short sellers broadly. Bears are picking battles carefully.
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