Q2 earnings season hit its stride today. BAC reported before the open, with bulls firmly in control — short interest sits at just 1.3% of free float. UNH and NFLX both report Thursday. Netflix carries only 2.4% short interest. Investors are watching subscriber growth and the ad-tier build closely. ISRG also posts Q2 figures Thursday. JPM made headlines for a different reason — CEO Jamie Dimon ruled out a White House run, saying "I'm a banker, I'm a New Yorker."
Airlines face a double hit today. UAL reports earnings with bears building into the print. Peer AAL carries even heavier short positioning at 9.3% SI % of FF. Overhead, US-Iran tensions escalated overnight. Oil-sensitive names are in focus. remains lightly shorted at 0.9% of float. Options traders are active in crude-linked names as hostilities intensify.
Analysts lifted the consensus target on MPC by nearly $13 to $290.65. FANG drew equally clean bullish attention — 25 Buy ratings, zero Sells. Energy is the sector drawing the most positive analyst revisions today.
Lenovo Group CEO Yang Yuan Qing filed a $125.8 million share sale executed July 9. Brazil's state oil giant Petrobras saw its controlling shareholder file $462 million in sell transactions across nine separate filings. Both are large enough to warrant attention from institutional investors tracking smart-money signals.
ALIT saw a dramatic short cover — SI crashed from 144.5% to 4.7% in a single session. SPCX moved the other way, jumping from 3.65% to 25.22% overnight. HTZ remains extreme at 69% SI % of FF with zero shares available to borrow.
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