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Options flow on September 1 tells a divided story. Semiconductors are drawing the biggest bets — on both sides of the trade. NVDA sits atop the leaderboard for both positive and negative options bets over the past…
Wall Street is divided on networking stocks this week. The sharpest cut came at CIEN. B. Riley slashed its target from $516 to $413 — a $103 drop. That is a 20% reduction. The firm kept its Hold rating but flagged…
Short sellers made aggressive new bets this week. The biggest movers tell a clear story. SPCX saw one of the sharpest increases among large-cap names. Short interest jumped +5.4 percentage points in seven days. It now…
Institutional money moved decisively into equities this week. The broad trend is risk-on, with $37B net flowing into equity ETFs in just seven days. The US attracted the largest single geography inflow at $17.3B over…
September is living up to its reputation as a tough month. Short sellers are pressing across tech and software simultaneously. Negative options flow is dominating. And a packed earnings calendar is raising the…
NVDA is today's top headline. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo reports that Nvidia's Rubin CPX chip is back — with a major redesign. The news lands as options flow turns negative on the stock. Negative bets have dominated Nvidia's…
Analysts delivered a mixed bag of calls this week. An upgrade to AKAM stands out. The consensus lifted Akamai Technologies to a buy. Its average target price moved to $156.78 from $157.43 — the shift reflects…
The biggest insider story of the past fortnight involves EVO, the Swedish online gaming platform. Filings published on August 26 show Kenneth Bryan Dart — Evolution's largest individual shareholder — bought a combined…
Short sellers turned notably more aggressive in the week ending August 28. The biggest moves came in some high-profile names — not just the usual micro-cap suspects. KVYO saw the sharpest jump among large-cap names.…
Anthropic signed a ~$35 billion cloud deal with Lambda, Reuters reported overnight. The deal ripples across mega-cap tech. NVDA, AMZN, MSFT, and GOOGL all sit in the blast radius. Despite the bullish headline, negative…
September opens with a packed calendar. Three marquee names report within 48 hours. Medtronic fires first. The $117B medical device giant releases results today at 6:45am ET. Short interest sits at just 1.1% of free…
Scotiabank delivered the week's most striking upgrade, lifting its target on PANW to $430 from $320 — a 34% jump. The firm maintained a Buy rating on the cybersecurity giant, which carries a $303 billion market cap.…
US-listed ETFs pulled in a net $17.3B in the past week. That is the biggest single-geography inflow by a wide margin. Japan followed with $7.1B. Global diversified funds added $6.0B. The breadth of demand signals a…
Short sellers are making bold moves heading into September. ORTEX data through August 27 shows several stocks hit with fast-rising short positions. Here are the standout moves. Klaviyo Jumps Into the Crosshairs KVYO…
Short sellers extended their push into software and chips as August ends. KVYO short interest jumped nearly 7 points to 19.9% of free float this week. SPCX climbed to 23.9% SI % FF. CAPR saw the sharpest move — up 9.2…
Options sentiment across US markets is tilting bearish into the weekend. Negative options bets lead positive ones among large-cap names. Mega-cap tech stocks — NVDA, AAPL, and MSFT — top the negative-count leaderboard…
ADSK is the day's standout name. Three analysts raised targets at once — UBS lifted its price target to $325 from $290, BNP Paribas moved to $300, and consensus ticked up to $315. The software design giant carries just…
Short sellers are on the move this week. Three names stand out with sharp increases over the past seven days. KVYO (Klaviyo) saw its short interest jump nearly 7 percentage points. It now sits at 19.9% of free float.…
The biggest story in ETF flows this week is a sharp reversal in tech. Information Technology bled $3.7B in the past seven days. Over three months, the sector pulled in $52.9B — the largest sector inflow of the quarter.…
Markets head into September with a heavy agenda. Earnings, short selling, and a divided analyst community are all vying for attention. AVGO reports after Wednesday's close. The $1.75 trillion chipmaker carries just…
