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A packed earnings slate greets investors this week. Home Depot is the headline act. It reports Tuesday, August 18. The retail giant's results will test how consumers are holding up under continued pressure. Also on…
Semiconductor and software names dominated analyst activity on August 14, with Applied Materials drawing the most attention. B of A Securities analyst Vivek Arya cut his price target to $650 from $720. He kept his Buy…
Bill Gates made fresh headlines this week, filing purchases of over $81.5M in RSG (Republic Services) across two days. He bought 211,771 shares on August 11 and 166,095 more on August 10. The waste management giant…
Short sellers are making bold moves this week. WOLF (Wolfspeed) tops the most-shorted large caps with 85.2% of its free float sold short. That figure jumped nearly 7 percentage points in just seven days. Bears see no…
NVIDIA is back in the spotlight. Reports today say its next-gen Feynman AI platform is ramping fast. That is pushing TSMC to accelerate production. Options flow confirms the attention — NVDA draws heavy put interest…
A packed earnings schedule kicks off mid-week, with consumer and retail heavyweights front and centre. No major US IPOs are on the calendar for the next seven days. Tuesday sees HD Home Depot open the retail reporting…
Wall Street is raising targets across several sectors today. The moves point to growing confidence in cloud software, energy refining, and healthcare real estate. CrowdStrike drew fresh analyst attention with a new…
Five insiders at LTH — Life Time Group Holdings — filed sales totalling $466 million this week. Two directors, John Danhakl and John Galashan, each filed $221 million in shares sold on August 10 at $43.16 apiece.…
Short sellers made bold moves this week. Replimune Group saw the biggest SI jump among mid-caps. Its short interest hit 37% of free float, up 9.3 points in seven days. Bears are clearly sceptical of the cancer therapy…
Japan ETFs bled $75.8B in a single week. That is the biggest geographic outflow by a wide margin. Over three months, Japan had pulled in $81.2B. The weekly reversal is stark. Institutional money is rapidly unwinding a…
The chip sector is the day's clearest battleground. Sandisk reports earnings tonight. Short sellers have been covering ahead of the print — a notable shift for a stock up 466% in 2026. Micron draws heavy two-way…
A packed earnings week kicks off today, Friday August 14. ICCC ImmuCell Corporation holds its Q2 2026 call this morning. GPUS Hyperscale Data reports Q2 results after the close today. The action builds through the…
Analysts turned bearish on two large-cap names today. VEEV and PAYX both received formal downgrades, standing out in a session dominated by target price tweaks. Veeva Systems dropped a notch in analyst consensus. The…
Two LTH directors filed identical $221M block sales this week. John Danhakl and John Galashan each sold 5.1 million Life Time Group shares at $43.16 on August 10. Combined, the pair offloaded over $441M in stock. The…
Short sellers are turning aggressive on several names this week. Replimune Group tops the movers, with SI % of FF jumping to 37% — up 9.3 percentage points in just seven days. That's despite the biotech stock rallying…
Semiconductor stocks are dominating the conversation. Options traders are placing heavy bets on both sides in Micron Technology and Sandisk Corporation. Sandisk is up 466% in 2026 — yet it leads bearish options flow.…
Analysts are raising price targets across several names today. Block, Inc. drew the biggest individual call. Canaccord Genuity's Joseph Vafi lifted his target to $100 from $85, maintaining a Buy rating. The fintech has…
Short sellers made bold moves this week. REPL saw the biggest jump — SI % of FF leapt from 32% to 43% in just seven days, a near-11 percentage point surge. Bears are clearly sceptical after Replimune Group's stock…
Japan ETFs bled $75.8B in net outflows over the past week. That is the single largest geographic reversal in the data. Over the prior three months, Japan had attracted $81.2B in net inflows. Sellers now dominate, with…
The chip sector grabbed the spotlight on August 13. Options traders are placing heavy bets on both sides of Micron Technology and Sandisk Corporation. Micron is up 219% year-to-date. Sandisk has surged 466%. The…
