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XSB: Short Interest Collapses After April Spike

XSB, the iShares Core Canadian Short Term Bond Index ETF, enters the final days of April with a dramatic re-set in short positioning — the most notable development on the tape in weeks. The standout story here is the…

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ITRI drops 8% after Q1 miss; analysts trim targets

Itron, Inc. enters the post-earnings window with the stock pricing in disappointment after a weaker-than-expected Q1 print and a fresh round of analyst target cuts. Q1 2026 results landed on April 28 and the market's…

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ITEX Quietly Grinds Higher With Thin Data Coverage

ITEX Corporation has posted four straight weeks of modest gains, closing at $2.99 on April 29 — up roughly 5% on the week and around 5% over the past month. For a micro-cap OTC name with no analyst coverage and no…

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IRIX: CFO Buys Quietly as Shorts Complete a Wild Round-Trip

IRIDEX Corporation enters its May 12 earnings window sitting at $1.03 — down 2% on the week — after one of the more dramatic short-selling episodes in its recent history. The most telling detail this month is not where…

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IVRO Jumps 11% on No News — Earnings Pattern Worth Watching

IVRO is a micro-cap OTC stock trading at $0.0887. It gained 11% on the week to close Monday flat against its monthly pace. The most interesting angle here is not short positioning — it is the stock's consistent habit…

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INTZ: Short Squeeze Unwinds Ahead of May Earnings

Intrusion Inc. enters its May 12 Q1 earnings report with a striking reversal: short sellers who had aggressively built positions over April have now retreated almost entirely, even as the stock keeps falling. The…

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Intuit shorts rebuild ahead of May earnings

INTU heads into its May 21 earnings call with short sellers meaningfully rebuilding positions — yet borrow conditions remain easy and the Street keeps its constructive stance well above the current price. The most…

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INTT Heads Into Earnings With Options Pointing Bullish

InTest Corporation heads into its Q1 2026 earnings call — scheduled for May 4 — with options sentiment at its most bullish in months, the stock up sharply on a one-month view, and a cluster of insider selling in the…

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Power Metallic dips 14% as short sellers quietly exit

PNPN enters the end of April on the back foot, down 14% on the week to CAD 1.08, yet the pullback is unfolding against a backdrop of retreating short interest — a split between price action and positioning that is…

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TRAN: Micro-cap miner, thin shorts, no clear catalyst

Clean Energy Transition Inc. is a micro-cap mining name trading at CAD $0.04 — and this week's headline is a noisy-looking short interest figure that, on closer inspection, means almost nothing at all. Short interest…

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PURE Bioscience Drifts Near Penny-Stock Levels

PURE Bioscience heads into the final days of April trading near $0.069 — a stock that has lost roughly a fifth of its value over the past month, even as it clawed back about 5% this week. The price tells most of the…

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INOD shorts rebuild as May earnings loom

Innodata Inc. heads into its May 7 Q1 earnings report having shed 16% in a week — yet short sellers are quietly adding to positions as bulls and bears draw battle lines around an AI data services story that remains…

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NKTR Faces Lawsuit Barrage Ahead of May Earnings

Nektar Therapeutics heads into its May 7 first-quarter report carrying two compounding weights: a flurry of securities fraud class actions and a 10.7% weekly price decline that has tested the conviction of a Street…

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Ingles Markets: Proxy Fight Takes Centre Stage

IMKT.A heads into its April 30 annual meeting with a live proxy battle — not a short squeeze, not an analyst downgrade — as the defining event of the week. Summer Road LLC, which holds around 2.3% of shares, has been…

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ING options hit 52-week extreme on earnings day

ING heads into its Q1 earnings release this morning with options markets flashing the most bearish signal of the past year. The clearest read on sentiment is in options. The put/call ratio jumped to 1.26 on April 29 —…

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Infosys Borrow Market Hits Maximum Tightness

INFY enters May with its lending market running completely dry — every share available to borrow is already out on loan — while cost to borrow has more than doubled in a month and short sellers quietly build positions…

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Infineon Rallies 52% Into May Earnings

Infineon Technologies AG heads into its Q2 2026 results — due May 6 — having posted one of the sharpest one-month rallies among European large-cap semiconductors, with the ADR gaining 52% over the past month and adding…

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