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Options markets are on edge as a dense earnings slate collides with extreme real-economy signals. Bearish bets dominate activity in chip and AI names. NVDA, AMD and MU are drawing the heaviest negative options flow…
The most striking reading in this week's alternative data comes from the nuclear output dataset. Talen Energy recorded reactor output 10.0 standard deviations below its own history as of 9 October. That is the sharpest…
Today marks the start of one of the busiest reporting weeks of 2026. S&P Global kicks things off this morning with Q3 results. The data giant has been a bellwether for financial market activity all year. Tomorrow,…
Wells Fargo analyst Jason Kupferberg made two notable calls today. He raised his target on CTSH from $67 to $77. That is a 15% jump. He kept his Buy rating. The consensus target for Cognizant also edged up to…
The most striking feature of this week's insider picture is what is missing. ORTEX's first-party SEC EDGAR Form 4 tables, the primary source for US open-market insider trades, are unavailable in the current…
Short sellers made bold moves this week. CoreWeave saw the biggest jump among large-cap names. Its SI % of FF rose 4.5 percentage points in seven days to 25.7%. Bears are betting the AI cloud darling's $25B valuation…
China ETFs pulled in $19.9B in a single week. That is the standout number across all ETF flows right now, and it dwarfs every other geography by a wide margin. China's $19.9B weekly inflow carries a flow imbalance…
Kinetik Holdings is more crowded with short sellers than any of its closest Permian midstream peers right now. Its short interest stands at 13.1% of free float, well above comparable names such as OKE and TRGP where…
Tesla cancelled the Cybertruck in two markets today. The move adds to a bleak demand picture. California ZEV registrations fell 37% year-on-year to 80,392 vehicles in July 2026, per ORTEX alt data. That is the smallest…
Options sentiment has turned sharply negative on electric vehicle stocks. California new ZEV registrations fell 37% year-on-year to 80,392 units in July 2026, the smallest Q3 reading in three years, per ORTEX alt data.…
The week's biggest moment arrives Thursday. Amazon and Intel both report Q3 2026 results after the close on October 29. Microsoft goes a day earlier. The $3.9 trillion company drops its Q1 fiscal 2027 numbers on…
Wells Fargo made two bold calls on Monday, lifting targets on CTSH and ACN in the same session. Analyst Jason Kupferberg raised his Cognizant target to $77 from $67, reiterating Buy. He lifted Accenture to a $252…
The most striking insider buying in recent filings came from outside the US. Ma Jianrong, Executive Chairman of 2313 Shenzhou International Group, filed a cluster of open-market purchases across early September,…
Short sellers added positions across several mid- and large-cap names last week, with AI cloud stock CoreWeave seeing the sharpest move among meaningful names. CRWV short interest climbed to 25.7% of free float as of…
Short sellers are building positions in AGIX at the fastest weekly pace in months. Options traders are hedging at a 52-week extreme. The borrow market is tightening. All three moved in the same direction in the same…
Accenture closed Friday at $249.37, down 3.6% on the day yet still up 8.6% on the week, and the most interesting tension is not the Friday sell-off but how much of the Street remains behind the stock even after a 36%…
TeraWulf closes the week at $11.32, down 3% in five days and off 35% over the past month, yet the two most interesting signals in the data point in opposite directions: options traders are positioning more bullishly…
XERS heads into its November 5 earnings report with a sharp single-day sell-off, elevated retail attention, and an analyst community that has been steadily raising its view on the stock. The most striking data point…
WillScot Holdings enters its November 4 earnings print in an uncomfortable position: short interest has climbed 12.5% over the past month, the Street has spent the last two weeks slashing price targets, and the stock…
UBER enters its November 3 earnings report on the back foot, down 5% on the week to CAD 9.75, yet the market structure around the stock has shifted in a way that makes the setup more nuanced than the price action alone…
