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Chewy (CHWY) is the most shorted US stock above $2B, with 86.5% of its free float sold short, or 3.7 days of average volume to buy back; that has moved -5.0 pts on the week. The biggest weekly build on the list was BKV…
This is one of the heaviest earnings weeks of the year. MSFT and GOOGL both report Wednesday after the bell. Together they account for over $5 trillion in combined market cap. AMZN follows Thursday. CDNS opened the…
Options markets are flashing caution across two of 2026's biggest themes: semiconductors and crypto-adjacent equities. NVDA and AMD both sit with RSI readings below 40, a level that often precedes elevated put buying.…
Short sellers added most to Albertsons Companies (ACI): short interest rose 4.1 points in a session to 23.8% of free float, the highest reading in at least a year, and is up 4.4 points on the week, while the stock…
Today's calendar opens with CDNS releasing results at 12:30pm ET. SPGI and KO both report tomorrow morning. Coca-Cola is one to watch in consumer staples. Wednesday is the biggest day of the week. MSFT and GOOGL both…
Analysts upgraded TSLA today, pushing it from Hold to Buy territory. The consensus average target price now stands at $409.27. That follows California ZEV sales data showing new registrations fell 37% year-on-year to…
Three weeks of converging data on PHVS have not reversed. The B of A Securities upgrade to Buy, published October 23, remains the anchor. Options positioning has stayed skewed toward calls, and the borrow market has…
A mystery buyer has been quietly amassing a stake in Evolution AB, the Swedish live-casino operator. Kenneth Bryan Dart, listed as a main shareholder, filed purchases of nearly $716 million across late July and early…
Short sellers are not backing down from some of the market's most-watched names. CHWY tops the large-cap most-shorted list, with 86.5% of free float sold short as of October 23. Availability sits at 566%, meaning…
ConnectOne Bancorp gained 7.4% over the past week, comfortably ahead of the median 4.4% rise across its closest regional bank peers. The post-earnings momentum has now drawn a formal endorsement from Raymond James,…
Morgan Stanley downgraded Block, Inc. to Equal-Weight on Monday, cutting its price target to $80 from $90. The stock closed Thursday at $76.46, already below the new target. James Faucette at Morgan Stanley had carried…
The biggest earnings week of the autumn is underway. MSFT reports Wednesday evening and AMZN follows Thursday. Both rank among the five largest companies by market cap. INTC also reports Thursday with its RSI at 32.8,…
Semiconductor names are drawing the heaviest options flow this week. Both bullish and bearish large-bet volumes sit highest in MU, NVDA, AMD, and INTC, per ORTEX screening data. INTC reports Q3 results this week, and…
The biggest earnings week of the autumn opens today. MSFT reports Wednesday evening, followed by AMZN on Thursday. Both are among the five largest companies by market cap. INTC also holds its earnings call Thursday.…
California new zero-emission vehicle sales fell 37% year-on-year in Q3 2026. The 80,392 units registered represent the smallest Q3 reading in three years. The prior Q3 peak was 115,240 vehicles in Q3 2024, according to…
General Electric saw the week's sharpest consensus target cut. The average analyst price target slipped to $378.43, down from $378.90, as one analyst trimmed their call. The consensus still skews bullish, with 20…
The most recent insider data available covers filings through 8 September 2026. The freshest notable open-market purchase came from UBER President and COO Andrew MacDonald, who bought $4.1 million worth of shares on 4…
Short sellers pulled back from CHWY last week. Short interest fell from 91.5% to 86.7% of free float between 16 and 22 October. That is still an eye-watering figure for the pet retailer, but the 4.9 percentage point…
China ETFs led all regional inflows this week. They pulled in a net $14.7B in seven days, beating the U.S. ($14.0B net) for the top spot. That is a sharp contrast to the 3-month picture, where U.S. funds still dominate…
Two distinct signals are pointing the same direction for FedEx in the 48 hours before its Q2 fiscal 2027 earnings on October 28: options traders are leaning hard into upside exposure, and retail attention has surged to…
