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Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group gained 1.3% over the past week to close at JPY 3,155, but that modest recovery looks thin beside its closest megabank rivals. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group rose 2.4% over the same…
LATAM Airlines Group has just reported Q3 results, and the story has shifted decisively from the borrow-market drama of the past two weeks toward a quieter question: what happens to the stock now that the event has…
ITUB4 is down 6.6% on the week and 14% over the past month, extending a slide that began before its November 3 earnings release and has continued since. The pre-earnings short buildup that dominated earlier notes has…
BlueLinx Holdings posted its Q3 results on November 3, and the market's verdict was immediate: the stock fell 7.8% in a single session to $72.56, extending its weekly loss to nearly 5%. Short sellers had been…
HURN is the most shorted name among its closest peers right now, and the gap opened sharply this week. Short interest in Huron Consulting Group jumped 47% over the past week to reach 7% of the free float, the highest…
GOOGL fell 12.6% over the past week to $280.03, a move that stands apart from virtually every correlated name in its peer group, where the median weekly change was roughly flat. Among its closest peers, META was…
WLK enters its November 4 earnings release with one of the cleaner short-side capitulation stories in the commodity chemicals space: bears have trimmed positions by nearly 19% over the past month, even as analysts have…
Centerra Gold has dropped a further 7% on the week to CAD 27.45, extending a 10% one-month decline, and the post-earnings selling has pushed the stock to its cheapest valuation levels in months without yet attracting a…
Corcept Therapeutics has shed 30% over the past month and 6.5% in the past week alone, closing at $81.93 on November 3, a move that sits well outside the median weekly change of roughly minus 1.4% for its closest…
Flutter Entertainment is the most heavily shorted name in its immediate peer group this week, with short interest at 9.1% of the free float, the highest level on record in the data. Closest comparable DKNG sits…
AIZ has just cleared its Q3 earnings hurdle, and the market's initial verdict is a measured step forward rather than a rerate. The stock closed at $296.13 on November 3, up 3.4% over the week but off a fraction on the…
EXP reported its Q2 fiscal 2027 results on November 4, and the stock's 10% weekly gain tells most of the story: the relief rally has arrived, shorts are trimming, and the debate now shifts from whether the print would…
Centene has had a quieter week since its Q3 earnings on October 27, but the options market has not settled down with the stock. The clearest shift this week is in options positioning. Put demand has climbed well above…
Gladstone Commercial Corporation has now reported its Q3 numbers, and the positioning picture that framed the earnings preview remains largely intact: short sellers have continued to pull back even as the stock…
XLU, the utilities sector ETF, is showing its first signs of short-side stabilisation after last week's dramatic 31% jump in short interest, with the position edging back down and the borrow market loosening…
XLK has given back nearly all of October's gains, falling 7% over the past week to $176.51, and the short-interest trend that was unwinding a week ago has quietly turned the other way. The reversal in positioning is…
XLI has spent the past week trimming short interest while rallying, a combination that points to covering rather than conviction buying. Short interest has pulled back from the stall point flagged in the previous note.…
XLF, the Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF, has had a constructive week on price but the positioning picture remains cautious: short sellers trimmed exposure sharply, the ETF gained 2.3% on the week, yet options traders…
XLE has spent the past week giving back some of its October gains, and the lending market has moved sharply with the price. The most notable change since last week's note is in availability. It has collapsed from above…
XLY, the Consumer Discretionary Select Sector SPDR ETF, is trading at its highest level in a month yet the bearish conviction against it has not faded, and options traders are now the most cautious they have been all…
