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PPL Corporation, the Pennsylvania-Kentucky-Rhode Island regulated utility, reports third-quarter results on Thursday after a week in which the shares gained 3.5%, modestly outpacing the median 2.7% advance among its…
McDonald's rose 5.9% over the past week to $265.64, outpacing a median gain of roughly 2.4% across its closest restaurant peers and extending a 14.6% gain over the past month. That recovery puts the stock well ahead of…
Humana reports third-quarter results on Thursday, and the most striking development in the run-up is not the stock's modest 5.7% monthly recovery to $410.41, but the sudden acceleration in bearish positioning over the…
HMC reports second-quarter earnings on November 6 with its own registration data pointing to weakness in its most important home market. Japan car sales tracked by the Japan Automobile Dealers Association (自販連) have…
BEN carries short interest of 3.3% of free float, the lightest short position among its closest asset management peers heading into Thursday's fiscal fourth-quarter print. Closest competitor IVZ draws considerably…
EOG Resources drops into its November 6 earnings report with the whole upstream sector in retreat, yet shedding less ground than most of its peers. The sector-wide pressure is the context here. EOG fell 4.6% on Monday…
Short interest in BRK.A has climbed nearly 76% since early October, yet the borrow market remains one of the most frictionless in the US large-cap universe, a split that frames Thursday's Q3 results in an unusual…
Among diversified bank ADRs, Banco de Chile now carries one of the more actively building short positions heading into its November 6 results, even though the absolute level remains modest relative to the float. Short…
Meta Platforms is carrying fresh legal risk this morning. A UK court ruled against Meta, TikTok and X over their refusal to hand over social media safety data. Meta's 14-day RSI sits at 33, deep in oversold territory.…
Micron Technology tops the options market's negative-flow list this week. The semiconductor giant leads both sides of the ledger, drawing the heaviest put and call bets in the US market over the past seven days. That…
Ferrari opens the week today. Austrian car registration data, which leads Ferrari revenue by 22 days, is running 75% below last year's quarter. That is a weak-fit signal, but it points to caution heading into the…
Howmet Aerospace stands out in today's analyst activity. The company received an upgrade, with the consensus target price jumping from $296.29 to $306.75. That is a notable move for an aerospace components maker that…
Open-market filings over the past month show a clear split in US boardroom conviction. Buying is clustering in financial services and housing. Selling is heaviest in high-flying tech names. Corebridge Financial tops…
Short sellers stepped up bets across homebuilders and a trio of distressed names last week, with DFH leading the charge among movers. Dream Finders Homes saw short interest jump 9.5 percentage points in seven days to…
The week's biggest earnings cluster sits in the auto sector. Ferrari reports today, with Austrian car registration data running 75% below the same quarter last year. That is a weak-fit lead, but the direction is hard…
Options markets are sending mixed signals heading into a heavy auto earnings week. Moderna stands out. The biotech carries an 88% probability of joining the MSCI World index, according to ORTEX's Index Rebalance Radar.…
The week's most closely watched earnings come from the auto sector. RACE (Ferrari) reports today, 3 November. Austrian car registration data, which leads Ferrari's revenue by 22 days, is running 75% below the same…
India's vehicle registration data told a stark story in October. New car registrations fell 84% year-on-year to 85,038 units, down from 546,725 a year earlier, according to Vahan data. Goods-vehicle registrations…
Howmet Aerospace grabbed the most notable call of the day. Analysts upgraded the stock and lifted the consensus target to $296. The prior target stood at $307. Despite the lower number, the upgrade itself shifts the…
UBER President and COO Andrew Gordon MacDonald filed two open-market purchases in early September, disclosing that he bought a combined 70,000 shares for roughly $5.3 million at prices around $75 to $76. That is a…
