Friday's session is packed with catalysts. AKAM surged 29% overnight after a strong earnings beat. Short interest sits at 12% of free float. Availability is a massive 424%, suggesting short covering added fuel to that rally. Options traders are now positioning for further gains into the May 22 expiry. Cloudflare cut 20% of its workforce while pivoting to an "Agentic AI-First" strategy. Despite the strong Q1, the layoffs rattled sentiment. Its RSI is running hot at 70.
The Paramount Skydance–WBD merger story deepened today. A $2.9 billion loss was reported alongside a Netflix termination fee and a planned tech overhaul. NFLX is now directly entangled in the deal's cost structure. WBD is down 5.5% year-to-date. Options flow shows modest buying interest — traders are not running away, but conviction is low.
SK Hynix cannot make AI memory chips fast enough. Reports say GOOGL, META, and MSFT are lining up to fund new capacity. ASML sits in the supply chain crosshairs. Analyst targets on chip-adjacent names are moving higher. Microchip Technology saw its consensus target rise 10% to $99.71 this week.
Trump's tariffs hit Toyota's bottom line. Global sales grew, but profits fell. The story underlines how tariff pressure is now showing up in hard earnings data — not just forecasts.
Early investors in CRWV are cashing out. Magnetar Financial filed a $145M sale of CoreWeave shares just weeks after the March IPO. Bears are also circling WOLF, where short interest hit 57.6% of free float — a 6.5 percentage point jump in one week.
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