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BA has had a brutal week, falling 11.7% to $168.18, the kind of move that forces a reassessment of where the recovery story actually stands. The Q3 earnings report landed on October 27, and the market's verdict was…
Automatic Data Processing is the quietest stock in a noisy peer group this week, flat on the week while the closest comparables sold off sharply, and that relative calm is backed by some of the loosest short…
AAPL reports fiscal fourth-quarter results tomorrow, October 29, trading at $347.10 against a Street mean target of $332.39, a premium that has held despite two downgrades eight days ago and shows no sign of closing…
Amphenol reported Q3 results on October 28, and the market's reaction has shifted the story considerably since the pre-earnings note published three days ago. The stock jumped 3.9% on the day to $78.21, recovering…
American Electric Power has seen its short position shrink over the past week, even as the stock climbed to its best levels in a month, a combination that left bears caught on the wrong side of a 10% October…
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…
