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A wave of analyst activity swept the utilities sector Friday. Multiple firms removed recommendations on major US power names, while target price changes dominated the action. FICO — Fair Isaac Corporation — drew the…
Two big insider stories stand out this week. Both involve bold conviction plays — one a buying spree, one a boardroom exit. Bill Gates filed on August 12 that he spent over $108 million buying shares of RSG — Republic…
Short sellers made bold moves this week. CoreCivic saw the most dramatic shift. Its SI % of free float jumped from just 2.3% to nearly 10% in seven days. Bears piled in after earnings while insiders sold. That's a +7.6…
Short sellers are moving fast this week. Wolfspeed has become the standout semiconductor bear target. Short interest hit 85% of free float — up 6.9 points week-on-week. The stock has lost nearly 49% in three months.…
Analyst activity this week is dominated by a broad sweep of recommendation removals across the US utilities sector. Firms pulled ratings on WEC, Ameren, CenterPoint, CMS Energy, DTE Energy, Sempra, and Consolidated…
Bill Gates filed purchases this week totaling over $100M in RSG Republic Services. Three separate buys hit on August 10–11. Gates paid between $214 and $216 per share across 465,000 shares. The waste management giant…
Short sellers are moving fast this week. Beyond Meat tops the pain chart — SI sits at an extraordinary 880% of free float. Bears added another 68 percentage points in just seven days. Cost to borrow spiked to 90%. Zero…
Japan was the biggest single story in ETF flows this week. It shed $75.5B in net outflows over the past week, a flow_imbalance of just 9.7. That is a dramatic reversal. Over three months, Japan had been a consistent…
Semiconductors and biotech are the week's short-selling focal points. WOLF tops the squeeze watch list with short interest at 85.2% of free float. Shares to borrow: zero. REPL surged 10.4 points in seven days to 37.8%…
Bullish options flow is tilting sharply toward semiconductors and consumer retail this week. ORTEX data shows MU leading positive bets over the past seven days. The stock is up 240% year-to-date. Analysts see 54.6%…
Analyst desks were busy Friday. The most notable move hit FICO, where the consensus target price rose to $1,476 from $1,473. Analysts kept their bullish skew — 15 Buy ratings stand against just one Hold. The…
Insiders at several major US companies filed significant sales this week, with the biggest cluster emerging at EHC. Encompass Health's CEO Mark Tarr sold $21.5 million worth of shares on August 10. The filing hit on…
Short interest spiked hard in several stocks this week. The biggest movers tell a clear story: earnings fears and sector bets are driving fresh short positions. REPL saw the sharpest jump. Replimune Group's SI % of…
Markets enter a pivotal week with a clear fault line running through them. Retail is rallying. Chips are under pressure. That divide is showing up across short interest, analyst calls, and options flow simultaneously —…
Options markets are sending a split signal on August 15. Bulls are piling into retail names. Bears are circling chips. Roku tops the ORTEX options score leaderboard this week. Its RSI sits at 73.7. Options bets are…
Telsey Advisory Group made a pair of bold retail upgrades today. TGT got a new Buy rating with a $170 target, up sharply from $150. ROST also earned a Buy and a $280 target, up from $265. Target's upgrade stands out.…
Short sellers are moving fast this week. The biggest single-week jump belongs to REPL — Replimune Group — where SI % of free float leapt +10.4 percentage points to 37.8% in just seven days. Analysts are actually…
Japan ETFs bled $75B in a single week. That is the dominant story in this week's fund flow data — and it stands in stark contrast to the prior three months, when Japanese funds pulled in nearly $79B. The reversal is…
The US 30-year bond yield hit its highest level since 2001 this week. Heavy AI-driven bond issuance from hyperscalers like AMZN and GOOGL is pushing up borrowing costs in non-dollar markets too. The Treasury market is…
Analyst desks are sending mixed signals on semiconductors. Applied Materials drew two conflicting calls on the same day. UBS analyst Timothy Arcuri cut his target to $675 from $705. Craig-Hallum's Christian Schwab went…
