Tuesday's earnings wave dominated Tuesday's market conversation. TGT and LOW led the morning slate. WMT looms largest this week — reporting Thursday with a $900bn market cap and 25 consecutive quarters of revenue beats. Analysts say tariff refunds did heavy lifting for HD in Q2, raising questions about how sustainable consumer-facing margins really are once that buffer fades.
BioNTech surged Wednesday, pulling Moderna and related names higher. Novavax also moved up. Moderna already carries one of the higher short interest readings in large-cap biotech at 13.5% of free float. Any sustained rally will pressure those short positions hard.
CoreWeave remains in focus. Magnetar Financial filed a $512M sale of nearly 4.7 million shares last week. Short interest whipsawed — a 4,586% spike reversed within days. IREN moved sharply Wednesday alongside the broader AI infrastructure cluster including NVDA, APLD, and CORZ. Apple attracted fresh attention after an analyst called it the most undervalued AI mega-cap.
FT Markets flagged a notable shift: European defence stocks are underperforming despite the rearmament theme. Separately, Kazakhstan's tenge surged as foreign investors piled into government bonds — a sign of emerging market appetite for yield even in high-risk geographies.
Wolfspeed SI sits at 86.5% of free float with zero shares available to borrow. Reddit short interest jumped 4.2 percentage points in a week to 17.9%. Bill Gates filed $263M in purchases of RSG, one of the week's clearest bullish insider signals.
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