All eyes are on NVDA this week. The $5.7 trillion chipmaker reports Wednesday after the close. Options traders are hedging heavily on both sides. Bullish and bearish bets are stacking up simultaneously. That split tells you everything about investor nerves right now. AMD, up 108% year-to-date, is seeing the same pattern. MU — up 172% YTD — leads the market in negative options flow. Profit protection is in full swing across the chip sector.
WMT and AMZN are battling for rural America today. Both are racing to extend delivery networks into underserved markets. FDX and UPS are caught in the middle of that fight. Separately, and are reportedly in talks to form a $400 billion utility giant. AI-driven electricity demand is the driver behind that potential tie-up.
Short sellers are making bold calls. WOLF — Wolfspeed — now has 89% of its free float sold short. Availability of shares to borrow has hit zero. CVNA shorts jumped 8 points this week to 10.1%. Bears are creeping back into Carvana despite its massive recovery. On the insider front, CIGI CEO Jay Hennick spent $22M buying his own stock across three days. That cluster of buying is a rare show of confidence. Contrasting that, Mineral Resources CEO Chris Ellison sold $88M of MIN stock in a single week amid governance scrutiny.
DDOG added a fresh analyst recommendation and now carries 45 buy ratings. AMAT received a new initiation well above prior consensus. CrowdStrike lost one rating from the pool. Consolidated Edison was upgraded to buy. Earnings this week also bring LOW, TGT, and ROST into the spotlight.
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