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LATAM Airlines Group heads into the final stretch of its buyback programme with the company's own treasury purchases running as the most concrete signal in an otherwise data-light snapshot. The clearest story this week…
GSK has recovered a fraction of its recent losses, up 1.4% on Wednesday to 1790.5p, but the week is still negative and the three weeks before October 28 earnings leave the stock sitting 3% lower on the month, still the…
Mizuho Financial Group heads into the week of October 8 with its share price softer and its lending market transformed, the ex-dividend squeeze that dominated the last note has unwound completely. The most striking…
BAE Systems heads into its November earnings with a sharp week of losses but a lending market that shows no meaningful short-selling pressure building against it. The stock fell 6.7% over the past week to close at…
STMPA heads into its October 29 earnings with the stock up sharply on the month yet nursing a 4% single-day pullback, while a quiet but notable shift in the lending market adds texture to what looks like a stock caught…
AstraZeneca enters the final three weeks before its October 30 results with positioning largely unchanged from last week's note: no short pressure, a stock trading near flat on the week, and the CEO's September…
ArcelorMittal heads into November earnings with its sharpest monthly selloff in recent memory and analysts still pricing the stock well above where the market is trading it. The price action tells the most urgent story…
ELV enters the week with short sellers continuing to press their bets, even as the slide that triggered the original build shows no sign of reversing. The short position has grown further since last week's note. Short…
ITUB4 has gained 11% in a week and 17% in a month, yet short sellers are still adding to positions, a split verdict that frames the key question into November earnings. The HSBC downgrade published earlier today laid…
NWE headed into the week with its sharpest one-week gain in recent memory, up 8.2% to close at $73.97 on Wednesday, and the options market is telling a story that cuts against any notion of defensive caution. The…
Gibraltar Industries heads into its October 28 earnings date with the stock near a one-year low, short interest at a six-week high on a monthly view, and an attention spike that suggests the market is starting to take…
EDR heads into its October 29 earnings date having shed 23% over the past month, with the week's 2.8% slide arriving in company across the entire silver mining peer group. The sector selloff is uniform and meaningful.…
RF reports Q3 results on October 16, and the positioning around it tells a story of growing caution: options protection has reached its highest level of the past year, analysts have spent the past two weeks cutting…
AngioDynamics heads into the week of October 8 with the stock down nearly 8% over seven days, analysts still bullish but increasingly selective on valuation, and a cost-to-borrow that has nearly doubled in a week…
SOXX gained 2.5% on the week to $582.82, but short sellers are not backing down, and options traders are more defensive now than at any point in recent months. The positioning story is one of stubborn conviction from…
The short-building story that defined IEF through September has shifted gear: positions that accumulated sharply into month-end are now unwinding, even as the ETF itself continues to drift lower. Short interest has…
EWJ, the iShares MSCI Japan ETF, heads into mid-October with short sellers unwinding positions at a meaningful pace, even as options traders remain structurally cautious on the fund. The most notable development this…
EWG, the iShares MSCI Germany ETF, heads into mid-October with a split personality: shorts have been unwinding steadily over the past week, yet options traders remain deeply defensive, and the borrow market has…
The covering trend that defined EWY through September has reversed sharply, with short interest climbing back toward its recent highs just days after bears appeared to be standing down. Short interest has rebuilt with…
HELE has now passed its October 8 earnings release with short sellers still holding a meaningful position, the stock down 7% on the week, and the borrow market offering no sign of squeeze pressure. Short interest came…
