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The global auto sector enters November with weak real-economy data pulling at earnings expectations. India posted just 85,038 new car registrations in October 2026, the smallest October on record since 2017. The prior…
Options traders leaned heavily bearish on semiconductors this week. NVDA leads on both positive and negative options bets, reflecting the tug-of-war after chip stocks pulled back sharply. NVDA carries 12 active expiry…
Tomorrow's calendar is light on confirmed US earnings, but Loews reports Sunday. The heavy action arrives mid-week. Ferrari posts results on Tuesday. Austrian car registration data, which leads Ferrari revenue by 22…
India's vehicle registers delivered the sharpest signal in October. The country recorded just 85,038 new car registrations for the month, according to India's vehicle registration data tracked by ORTEX. That is the…
Citigroup drove the bulk of analyst activity on Sunday, issuing a wave of target price revisions across industrials, healthcare, and financials. The sharpest cut fell on CAT. Analyst Kyle Menges trimmed his target from…
Insider selling dominated US equity filings over the past month, with ORTEX screening data showing the heaviest net outflows concentrated in a handful of large-cap technology and financial names. AppLovin stands out as…
Short sellers added aggressively to positions across several names last week. Two standouts are worth watching closely heading into November. Dream Finders Homes saw the sharpest move among mid-cap stocks. Short…
Active management pulled in $15.7B this week. That is the clearest signal in this week's ETF flow data: investors are paying for human stock-picking over passive index exposure at the fastest weekly rate this…
AAPL reports after the close today. At a $5 trillion market cap, it is the single most watched print of the week. MAR releases numbers this morning. AMGN follows tomorrow after the bell, with CHKP and IDXX holding…
Unusual options activity is clustering around a handful of names ahead of a busy week of earnings. The signal from both semiconductor hedges and biotech calls is worth watching. Micron Technology and Advanced Micro…
AAPL kicks off the most important day of the week today. The world's largest company by market cap ($5 trillion) reports after the close. MAR releases quarterly numbers at 7am Eastern this morning. Tomorrow, AMGN…
JP Morgan's Vivek Juneja raised target prices on six US bank stocks on Sunday. The move covered WFC, USB, TFC, STT, RF, and PNC. All six targets moved up by $0.50 to $5.00. The ratings themselves stayed unchanged,…
An NVIDIA director sold more than $366 million of stock in early September, the largest single-insider disposal in the latest data window. Mark Stevens, an independent director at NVDA, filed multiple sell transactions…
Short sellers have been busy over the past week. WOLF (Wolfspeed) stands out as the most notable mover. Its short interest hit 88.6% of free float, up 4.8 percentage points in seven days. That is one of the highest…
The week opens with a sharp demand warning across the global auto sector. India registered just 85,038 new cars in October 2026, according to ORTEX vehicle registration data. That is the lowest October figure since the…
Put pressure is building across auto and consumer-credit names. ORTEX data shows bears actively piling into homebuilder and auto stocks this week, with Carvana, Hertz and Wolfspeed drawing the heaviest negative options…
India registered just 85,038 new cars in October 2026, according to the India vehicle registration series tracked by ORTEX since 2017. That is the lowest October on record for the series. The previous October low was…
A packed earnings week opens today. AAPL reports after the close on Monday, November 2. AMGN follows on Tuesday. CHTR posts Wednesday morning, and ALL and COR both drop numbers Tuesday. SONY reports Tuesday in Tokyo.…
The most significant open-market insider purchase in recent filings came from UBER. Andrew Gordon MacDonald, the company's President and COO, filed a $4.1M discretionary buy on September 8. He paid market prices for…
JP Morgan's equity desk was busy on Sunday. Analyst Vivek Juneja lifted price targets across six US bank stocks in a single sweep. WFC went to $92, USB to $65.50, TFC to $51.50, RF to $31, STT to $192.50 and PNC to…
