Bears Circle Consumer Tech as Earnings Week Looms

Short Sellers Target Key Names

Bear pressure is intensifying across US consumer and tech stocks. Wolfspeed remains the most extreme case — short interest sits at 75.3% of free float with zero shares available to borrow. The semiconductor maker has shed nearly half its value in three months. Chewy climbed to 52.3% short interest this week, up 4.6 percentage points. Wix.com saw the sharpest weekly jump among larger names, leaping from 11.5% to 17.8% — a 6.2 point swing in seven days. On the other side, GameStop bears are covering. SI fell from 14.7% to 10.3%.

Macro: Yen and Energy in Focus

Global macro is providing the backdrop. The yen surged past ¥156 to the dollar overnight as traders bet on further Bank of Japan rate hikes. Norway's $2 trillion oil fund is proposing cuts to US Treasury holdings. European diesel prices hit a record crack spread above $100 a barrel — fuel is now more than twice the cost of underlying crude. Energy market volatility also claimed a high-profile casualty: a star Citadel trader is stepping down after years of billion-dollar gains in European natural gas.

Amazon Incident; Insiders Sell Into Strength

An Amazon cargo plane overran a runway at Miami airport, sending a cloud of smoke into the air. The aircraft, a Boeing jet, drew immediate attention given BA's ongoing safety scrutiny. Separately, insiders at NVIDIA, Elastic, and Corpay all filed sales this weekend. NVIDIA carries a $5.5 trillion market cap with SI at just 1.2% of free float — making insider signals the key watch.

Earnings Ahead

Oracle and RH report Thursday. Kroger follows Friday. UK tech firm Computacenter releases half-year results this week. Analysts lifted targets at Autodesk and Moody's while trimming ServiceNow slightly.