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AMZN reports Q3 results on Thursday after the close, with the stock at $253.10, down 3.6% over the past week and still roughly 7% below the all-time high set after Q2's blowout numbers. The key tension is not…
AMD closed Tuesday at $560.26, up 5.5% on the day and 4.8% on the week, a sharp reversal from the multi-week drawdown that had taken it from above $600 to a low around $516 just days ago. The rebound matters because it…
Short sellers added to positions in Abbott Laboratories at an unusual pace this week, even as the stock held broadly flat and the borrow market remained among the easiest in the sector. The short interest build is the…
ConocoPhillips fell 2.3% on Tuesday to $147.96. The put-call ratio hit 0.78, sitting 2.8 standard deviations above its 20-day mean of 0.74. That is the most defensive options positioning COP has seen in weeks, with…
FTA, the First Trust Large Cap Value AlphaDEX Fund, enters the final stretch of October with an unusual development for a passive ETF: short interest has climbed sharply over the past month while borrowing costs have…
SK, the Chilean industrial conglomerate, heads into its December earnings date with a steady drift lower in the share price and a meaningful trail of insider selling that has accumulated since April. The most notable…
MRVS.Y heads into its November 11 earnings date with a striking tension: the lending market for its OTC-listed ADR is fully locked, while the stock itself has shed nearly a quarter of its value in a single week. The…
PNR has staged one of its sharpest weekly rallies in recent memory, up 18% to $62.29, with the Street now scrambling to revise targets it spent two weeks cutting. A week ago, the picture looked grim. Analysts had spent…
Ryobi Limited enters its November 5 earnings date carrying a stock that has shed 4.6% over the past month but nudged 0.3% higher on the week, closing at JPY 2,641, with the market showing little conviction in either…
HBND, the Singapore-listed shares of Bank of China Limited, go into tomorrow's earnings with a short score of 27.4 and virtually no movement in borrow conditions, a picture of calm that makes the actual print the only…
Dollar General has shed short interest faster than almost any point in the past year. At 2.5% of the free float, the position is now at its lowest in months. That puts it well below Dollar Tree and most of its discount…
The biggest session of the reporting season lands today. Microsoft and Alphabet both report after the close, with Chipotle Mexican Grill joining them. Alphabet shares rose ahead of the print. This morning, GE Vernova…
Geopolitical fear is driving defensive options positioning. The SPY chain shows a dense cluster of near-term expiries, with contracts running daily through 6 November. A Wall Street Journal report warning of a possible…
Today brings one of the heaviest earnings days of the season. Microsoft, Alphabet, and Chipotle Mexican Grill all report after the close. GE Vernova and Vertiv Holdings posted numbers this morning. ADP, Garmin, Boston…
The sharpest reading in this week's alternative data comes from the nuclear output monitor tracking VST. Reactor output at Vistra Corp fell 10.0 standard deviations below its own history on 27 October, an extreme…
Analysts raised price targets on a broad range of names Tuesday, with building technology and healthcare leading the upgrades. JCI drew the freshest activity. The consensus target on Johnson Controls International…
Insider activity this month is split clearly between sellers in high-flying tech and buyers in beaten-down housing. The contrast is worth noting. Arista Networks stands out on the sell side. The networking equipment…
Short sellers have been active across several notable names this week. Two mid-cap stocks stand out for fresh bear positioning, while a Russell rebalance adds a wild card to the mix. GRND saw the biggest meaningful SI…
China claimed the biggest weekly ETF inflow of any geography. $22.5B flowed in over the past week, with a flow imbalance of 82.7. That is a sharp contrast to the three-month picture, where China attracted $38.5B total…
Mercedes-Benz reports today with a mixed picture from its leading data. Dutch car registrations, which lead Mercedes revenue by 26 days, are running 6% below the same quarter last year. Finnish registrations pull the…
