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Baidu Shorts Double Down as Analysts Cut Targets

BIDU is absorbing a fresh round of analyst target reductions on top of a borrow market that has gone from tight to near-fully seized — the two forces arriving simultaneously as the stock slides toward its next earnings…

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CBZ Surges 11% After Earnings Beat — Shorts Stay Calm

CBIZ, Inc. heads into the week of July 13 in a notably different place from where it started June — up 11% on the week and 16% over the past month, powered by a Q2 earnings beat that lifted both revenue and operating…

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IGPT Borrow Tightens Fast as Short Score Climbs

IGPT, the Invesco AI and Next Gen Software ETF, enters the back half of July with a quiet but notable tension: short interest has tripled over the past month while the borrow market has tightened sharply — even as the…

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LINC Shorts Build Ahead of August Earnings

Lincoln Educational Services enters the final stretch before its August 3 earnings report with short sellers quietly but steadily rebuilding positions — even as the stock sits near multi-year highs and the analyst…

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VGK: Defensive Hedges Keep Unwinding as Europe ETF Drifts Lower

VGK enters the back half of July with a consistent theme from last week still playing out — options traders continue to shed defensive hedges, short interest is drifting lower, and the borrow market remains comfortably…

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Tencent Shorts Rebuild Ahead of August Earnings

Tencent Holdings heads into its August 12 earnings date with short interest climbing at its fastest monthly pace in recent memory — yet the broader lending market tells a story of plentiful supply and minimal squeeze…

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BYD Shorts Build as Borrow Stays Cheap

BYD Company Limited enters the week with an unusual combination: short interest climbing at its fastest monthly pace in months, yet borrowing costs near their lowest level of the period — a divergence that makes the…

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SK Hynix Bounces, But the CEO Warning Lingers

SK hynix Inc. posted a 3.7% single-day gain on July 14, yet the broader picture is a stock down 13% over the past week and 11% over the past month — a rebound inside a deeper slide that began when the company's own CEO…

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ASML Earnings Day: Orders Beat, Peers Catch Up

ASML reported Q2 2026 results on July 15 — and the earnings-day divergence that defined Tuesday's session has given way to a broad sector recovery, with peers snapping back sharply and the stock itself consolidating…

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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company walks into its Q2 earnings release on July 16 with the stock down less than 1% on the week at TWD 2,420, a borrow market that is effectively inert, and a short-score reading that signals this is about as lightly contested a name as exists in global semiconductors.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company walks into its Q2 earnings release on July 16 with the stock down less than 1% on the week at TWD 2,420, a borrow market that is effectively inert, and a short-score reading…

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Airbus Approaches July Results With Bulls in Control

AIR enters its July 29 half-year results in an unusual position: the borrow market is almost entirely dormant, analyst sentiment sits at a near-consensus extreme, and the stock has pulled back 4% on the week — making…

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Toyota Faces Sector-Wide Selloff as Shorts Quietly Build

Toyota Motor Corporation heads into its August earnings with a familiar tension: a stock down 3.6% on the week, a lending market that remains overwhelmingly loose, and an ORTEX short score that has been drifting higher…

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MSB Shorts Ease as Stock Rallies 17%

MSB has delivered one of its stronger weekly performances in recent memory, gaining 17% to AUD 2.38, while short sellers have quietly trimmed exposure — a combination that makes the lending market the most interesting…

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BP Bounces Hard but Trails the Sector Rally

BP. gained nearly 9% on the week to close at 520p, a sharp recovery from June's softness. But across the integrated energy peer group, that move looks more like catch-up than leadership — EQNR added 7.5% over the same…

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Analysts Cut Targets as LVS Slides Into Q2 Results

Las Vegas Sands heads into its July 22 earnings release under a coordinated wave of analyst target cuts — and a stock down 12% over the past month that has yet to find a floor. The Street's message this week has been…

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ELV Earnings Day: Analysts Raise Targets After Q2 Print

Elevance Health reported Q2 results on July 15, and the Street's pre-earnings conviction has rapidly translated into fresh target raises — the question now is whether the stock at $426.79 can close the remaining gap to…

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MKTX analysts cut hard as shorts begin to unwind

MarketAxess heads into its August 5 earnings date under coordinated analyst pressure — targets have been slashed across the Street this week even as short sellers quietly trim the positions they rebuilt just days…

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