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The week's biggest story is auto earnings. GM reports Monday and Tesla follows Wednesday. Real-economy data backs both prints. ORTEX Alt Data shows German car registrations running 133% above the same quarter last year for GM and 269% higher for Tesla. That dataset leads GM revenue by 15 days and Tesla revenue by 43 days, both with strong historical fits. Tesla's short interest stands at just 2.5% of free float, low for such a watched name. Options markets are pricing a bullish catalyst, though Tesla's RSI sits at 42 and the stock is down 21% year to date.
Netflix opens proceedings Monday after the close. also reports that day. Tuesday brings Swiss industrial group before European markets open. Wednesday sees and . Semiconductor equipment analysts upgraded this week, while oilfield names and took target price cuts as energy demand expectations soften.
Short sellers made their boldest move on Chewy. Its SI % of Free Float jumped 25 percentage points in a week to 91.3%. Bears can hold cheaply at 0.4% cost to borrow. In Europe, the MSCI World rank date is Sunday, with two names on the boundary. Xero sits just 1.4% above the exit line, which would force $393 million of passive selling. Fabrinet's deletion odds jumped from 8% to 49% overnight, putting $550 million of MSCI Kokusai selling in play if it falls through.
Bill Gates filed a $365 million purchase of Republic Services shares, spread across late August. On the other side, an NVDA director filed $411 million in sales over the same window, though the clustered pattern points to a pre-arranged plan rather than discretionary selling.
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