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The week's biggest driver is earnings. Netflix posts Q3 results today after the close. Tesla follows on Tuesday, 21 October. Both names are generating heavy options activity ahead of their prints. ORTEX alt data adds weight to the Tesla setup: German car registration data, which leads Tesla revenue by 43 days, is running 269% above the same quarter last year across all three months of Q3. That is a strong pre-print signal, though not a guarantee of the outcome. GM also reports Monday, with German car data running 133% above the prior year period.
In Europe, Nestlé delivered its nine-month sales update today. and also report this week. Renault faces a mixed picture: Austrian car registrations run 6% above last year, but Dutch registrations are down 40%.
Chewy now carries 92.2% short interest as a percentage of free float, up 25.6 points in a week. GameStop short interest climbed to 10.3% of free float, with RSI rising to 74.67. That combination of elevated short positioning and a rising price creates conditions that have historically triggered squeeze-driven options flows.
The MSCI World November review ranks on 19 October. AST SpaceMobile and IREN both saw deletion probabilities spike overnight to 95% and 96% respectively. Confirmed deletions would force $674M of selling in ASTS and $635M in IREN.
UK manufacturing output hit 102.3 in August, its highest reading since 1948. Euro area industrial production fell to a five-year August low of 97.5 and has now dropped for three straight months. That divergence is sharp for any company with exposure to both markets.
Morgan Stanley raised its Chevron target to $226 and lifted BlackRock to $1,531 from $1,468. It cut its Carvana target to $88.
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