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The week's two biggest prints land in the next 48 hours. GM reports tomorrow and Tesla follows on Wednesday. Both names carry light short interest, GM at 2.4% of free float and Tesla at 2.5%, so there is little squeeze risk but also no short covering to cushion a miss. ORTEX Alt Data shows German car registrations running +133% year-on-year for the quarter GM is reporting, and +269% for the period Tesla covers. European battery-electric registrations hit a record 32,458 in September, up from 23,175 a year earlier. That macro backdrop shapes what investors will want to hear from management on demand. Tesla is down 21% year-to-date. Options negative bets are among the highest of any large-cap US name, per ORTEX data, setting the stage for a sharp reaction either way.
China's Q3 GDP came in at 1.2% quarter-on-quarter, beating the 1.1% estimate. Industrial production held steady at 5.3% year-on-year, and the September unemployment rate ticked down to 5.2% from 5.3%. The data lifted sentiment across Asia before the US open.
Analysts moved into tech and out of rate-sensitive sectors. Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks, Applied Materials, and Palantir Technologies all received upgrades in the same session. Against that, Southern Company and Ameren were both downgraded as bond markets price in a higher-for-longer rate path.
Today is the ranking cut-off for the MSCI World November 2026 Quarterly Review. Fabrinet's deletion probability jumped overnight from 8% to 49%. The stock sits 9.3% below the exit line, with $826M of forced selling in MSCI World trackers if it is removed. Xero is the most exposed European-listed name, sitting just 1.4% above the threshold with a 73% deletion probability and $393M in tracker selling at stake.
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