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Corporate insiders filed a wave of sell orders last week, with two US stocks drawing particular attention from watchers of insider activity. Iridium goes first. Six executives at IRDM — including the COO and Chief…
Short sellers stepped up bets against RDDT this week. Reddit's short interest jumped to 17.4% of free float — up from 13.8% just seven days ago. That's a 3.6 percentage point swing in a week. The stock has a $22B…
Japan dominated ETF fund flows this week. It pulled in $16B net, topping every other geography with a flow imbalance of 85.6. That is a notable acceleration. Over three months, Japan attracted $71B — solid, but spread…
Retail sales data is flashing green this morning. The Redbook index rose 9.1% year-over-year for the week ended August 22. The August-vs-August read came in at 8.4% YoY. Consumer spending looks resilient heading into…
Options traders are showing a sharp divide this week. Bearish bets dominate storage and memory stocks. Bullish flow is flooding defensive and quality names. Micron Technology and Microsoft top the negative bets…
Analysts delivered a clear downgrade to FIS on Monday. Fidelity National Information Services lost its Buy rating, with the consensus target slipping to $50.52 from $51.04. The $21 billion payments firm now sits in…
Bill Gates filed fresh purchases this week in RSG. He added over $76M in Republic Services shares across two trades. Gates bought 181,392 shares on August 21 and another 166,858 shares on August 18. That's a notable…
Short sellers turned noticeably more aggressive this past week. Two names led the charge in SI momentum. PURR — Hyperliquid Strategies Inc. — saw the sharpest move. Short interest jumped nearly 10 percentage points in…
All eyes are on Wednesday. NVDA reports after the close on August 26 — its $5.2 trillion market cap makes it the market's single most important earnings event of the year. Options flow is already bullish. Any guidance…
Options flow across US markets is skewing bullish. Micron Technology leads semiconductor positive bets this week. The stock is up 239% year-to-date. Analysts see 57% further upside. Options buyers appear to…
Hewlett Packard Enterprise scored the session's standout upgrade. An analyst moved the stock to a higher rating. The consensus shifted — nine analysts now hold a Hold view, versus thirteen previously. HPE carries a…
Wall Street is shifting positions across several sectors this week. The clearest upgrade belongs to HPE. Analysts moved the stock to a higher rating tier, lifting the consensus from Hold toward Buy. The $71 billion…
Insider filings lit up this week, with a wave of high-value sales dominating the activity. The biggest story is MEDP. Founder and CEO August Troendle filed sales of over $26M worth of shares on August 21. He sold at…
Short sellers moved decisively this week. Reddit saw the biggest notable jump among liquid names. Its SI % FF rose to 17.6% from 13.5% in just seven days — a 4.2 percentage-point swing. Bears appear unconvinced by…
Japan captured $12.2B in net ETF inflows this week. That made it the second-largest geography by weekly net flow, behind only the U.S. at $34.6B. The gap between those two and the rest of the world was stark. The U.S.…
Options traders are loading up on calls across the semiconductor space ahead of this week's packed earnings schedule, with NVDA at the centre of the action. Micron Technology ranks first for bullish options bets over…
All eyes point to Wednesday. NVIDIA reports after the close on August 26. Its market cap stands at $5.2 trillion. Options traders are positioned on both sides, with RSI sitting at a dead-neutral 51. Expectations are…
NVIDIA reports Wednesday. That is the headline event of the week. NVDA posts results after the close on August 26. Its market cap stands at $5.2 trillion. Expectations are sky-high after a year of AI-driven…
Hewlett Packard Enterprise grabbed the headline upgrade Monday. Analysts lifted their consensus rating on the $71 billion enterprise tech firm. The average target price holds at $65.24. Short interest sits at just 5.2%…
Corporate executives filed a wave of significant trades over the past two weeks. The pattern is clear: most are selling, but one high-profile founder is going the other way. MEDP CEO August Troendle leads the sellers.…
