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Short interest data through August 14 shows a week of big moves. Bears added heavily to several names while covering hard in others. REPL saw the sharpest jump. Replimune Group's short interest leapt to 38.1% of free…
The standout story this week is a sharp reversal in Technology. Over the past three months, Info Tech ETFs pulled in $63.4B — the strongest sector inflow. This week, the same sector shed $1.75B. The flow imbalance…
Semiconductors gave back ground Monday as the chip stock rebound faltered. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq both closed lower. That weakness lands at an awkward time. Sandisk — up 591% in 2026 — and Micron, up 240%, are already…
Options bets are piling into semiconductors. Sandisk and Micron Technology top the ORTEX options activity leaderboard this week — on both the bullish and bearish sides. Sandisk is the standout name. The stock is up…
Analyst activity on August 17 shows a clear divide in the energy sector. Halliburton and SLB both saw consensus target prices trimmed. Expand Energy took a harder hit — Johnson Rice downgraded the natural gas producer…
Bill Gates filed this week that he bought roughly $145M worth of RSG shares across four days. Republic Services, the waste management giant, attracted nearly 730,000 shares from the billionaire philanthropist between…
Short sellers ramped up bets across biotech and semiconductor names this week. Replimune Group saw the sharpest move. Its short interest jumped 10.75 percentage points in just seven days. SI now sits at 38.1% of free…
Chips are driving markets from every angle today. NVIDIA, AMD, Micron, and Sandisk are drawing the heaviest options flow on both sides of the ledger. Sandisk is up 591% year-to-date. That extreme run has traders split…
Semiconductors are driving the most active options flow this week. Both bullish and bearish bets are concentrating in the same names — a sign the sector is at a decision point. Sandisk tops the options activity table…
TD Cowen lifted its target on CRWD from $175 to $235, keeping a Buy rating. That is a 34% jump in the target price. Analyst Shaul Eyal also raised PANW from $360 to $400. Both moves signal growing confidence in…
Bill Gates filed fresh purchases in RSG this week. He reported buying over $115M worth of Republic Services stock across three separate transactions. The trades were filed on August 12 and 14. Gates snapped up shares…
Short sellers have been busy. The most dramatic moves this week came from small and micro-cap names, where short interest exploded to extreme levels. INLF saw its SI jump from 436% to 839% of free float in just seven…
Japan suffered the biggest one-week geographic outflow by far. ETFs focused on the country saw $75.5B exit in the past week. Flow imbalance collapsed to just 9.7 out of 100 — deep selling territory. That is a stark…
NVIDIA is front and centre again today. Groq was valued at $3.5 billion in a new funding round following its deal with NVIDIA. Separately, NVIDIA secured land and power capacity in Ohio to host compute for OpenAI — the…
Cantor Fitzgerald initiated coverage across the semiconductor space on Monday. Analyst Matthew Prisco gave NXP Semiconductors and Microchip Technology Buy ratings, with targets of $400 and $125 respectively. He tagged…
Short sellers had a busy week. REPL saw the biggest move among mid-caps. Replimune's SI % of Free Float jumped to 38.1%, up 10.75 percentage points in just seven days. That is one of the sharpest single-week increases…
Stanley Druckenmiller's latest 13F filing is the talk of markets this morning. The legendary investor built a major position in IREN — an AI infrastructure and crypto mining firm — while simultaneously exiting AVGO,…
Analysts lifted price targets across several major names today. CSCO saw its consensus target rise to $136.05, up from $134.77. The networking giant carries a $440 billion market cap. Fifteen analysts currently hold…
Bill Gates filed purchases of over $81.5 million in RSG (Republic Services) this week. He bought 377,866 shares across two days at around $215–$216 each. That's a major vote of confidence in the waste management…
Short sellers are making bold new bets this week — while scrambling to cover on others. ORTEX data through August 13 shows sharp moves in both directions. Wolfspeed bears dig deeper. WOLF now sits at a massive 85.2% SI…
