Bears Circle Lulu and Chewy Ahead of a Big Earnings Week

US Market Highlights

Bears are firmly in control of two consumer names. LULU crashed 17% after a Q2 miss. Short interest sits at 10.2% of free float. Options flow is skewing heavily negative. The RSI reads just 31.8 — the stock is down 52% year-to-date. Traders are not buying the dip.

CHWY tells a similar story ahead of earnings in four days. Short interest has climbed to 52.3% of free float — up 4.6 percentage points in a week. Borrow availability has hit zero. That squeeze setup is building, but for now bears are adding, not covering.

RDDT also drew attention today. The bear case is hardening as the Street debates risks from the Google search relationship. Short sellers have been active in social media names broadly.

Earnings on Deck

Thursday dominates the calendar. ORCL and ADBE both report after the close. Oracle will be a read on enterprise AI spending. Adobe faces pressure from AI competition fears. M — Macy's — prints Thursday morning as a consumer health check.

Analyst Moves

ADSK and MCO both received upgrades today. Autodesk now has 32 buy recommendations. Moody's has 18. Neither stock is heavily shorted — bulls have the field to themselves.

European Spotlight

Wickes drifted lower while home-improvement peers Kingfisher and Inditex found steadier ground. Across Switzerland, UBS insiders filed sales today as the stock approaches analyst target prices — a sign of executives lightening up near fair value.

Asian insiders moved the other way. Xinyi Glass Holdings saw three senior executives buy $7.3M worth of shares on September 2 and 3, filed yesterday — a rare cluster of coordinated buying at the top.