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Equity ETFs pulled in $68.6B last week. That is the dominant story across every dimension of fund flows right now. US equities led geography with $19.8B in net inflows. Japan was close behind at $11.6B. China grabbed…
A Fed official dominated headlines today. Governor Paulson said inflation is still too high and policy needs to stay "mildly restrictive." He added it was not a close call to hold rates steady. That comment put a lid…
Wall Street turned bearish on NKE Monday. The consensus on Nike was downgraded, with the average analyst target price slipping to $50.66 from $51.00. The move pushes the buy/hold/sell split to 3/24/12 — one of the more…
Corporate insiders filed a flurry of notable trades this week. Sellers dominated the headlines. Charles Schwab's founder and co-chairman, Charles R. Schwab, disclosed $15.2M in sales of SCHW stock. Two separate…
Palantir is the story of the morning. The stock is up 16% in premarket trading after blowout Q2 earnings. CEO Alex Karp used the results to attack rival AI labs, calling them too focused on open-source idealism over…
Analysts are moving fast on August 4. Three notable downgrades and one meaningful upgrade are shifting the landscape across healthcare, retail, and semiconductors. ON Semiconductor claimed the day's top upgrade.…
Insiders at two major US companies filed significant sell transactions last week, with the filings landing in close succession across the brokerage and healthcare sectors. Charles Schwab, founder and co-chairman of…
Short sellers are hunting two high-profile names hard. HTZ tops the most-shorted list with 80.9% of free float sold short. Availability has fallen to zero. There are simply no more shares to borrow. LCID is not far…
Information Technology pulled in $13B this week. That is the single biggest sector story. It dwarfs every other sector combined. Yet over three months, the picture is even larger — Tech has absorbed $77.5B. The buying…
Earnings season is running at full speed today. Palantir is the headline act after smashing Q2 expectations. The stock jumped nearly 15% after hours. Analysts raced to raise targets — consensus now sits at $185.68.…
Earnings season is shaping options flow across energy, chips, and speculative names this week. PBF Energy stands out as one of the strongest options signals. The refiner carries an RSI of 75 and is up 167% year to…
Analysts revised targets across a broad range of names on August 4. Palantir Technologies led the upgrades. The consensus target price rose to $185.68 from $182.20. Six analysts now rate it a Buy. The stock carries…
ACS Chairman and CEO Florentino Perez filed three separate purchases this week. He bought 400,000 shares of ACS for a combined $50.5 million. The trades occurred between July 29 and July 31. All three were filed on…
Short sellers are showing no mercy this week. Chewy and Hertz top the heavily-shorted leaderboard — both sitting above 80% SI % of FF. Bears added to both positions over the past seven days. Chewy climbed to 81.4% from…
The Japanese yen grabbed global attention today. It jumped 3% amid speculation of intervention by Tokyo. The New York Fed sold euros to buy yen in what FT described as a "historic" action. That move rippled through…
Options sentiment is clearly bearish for several high-profile losers. Hertz Global Holdings carries a short score of 77 and an RSI of just 26.7. The stock is down 69% year-to-date. That oversold reading hasn't stopped…
Analysts made sharp calls across energy and technology on August 4, with Datadog leading the upgrades in cloud. DDOG saw its consensus target price rise to $274, up from $270. The stock carries a market cap near $89…
Three of the most striking insider patterns this week involve coordinated selling, a high-profile founder offloading shares, and a biotech's backers exiting fast. SkyWest sweeps the board. SKYW CEO Chip Childs, CFO…
Short sellers are stepping up pressure on two retail-facing names. Hertz Global Holdings saw its SI % of Free Float jump to 80.9% — up from 62.2% a month ago. That's an 18.7 percentage point spike in 30 days. The car…
Institutional money is pouring into equities at pace. This week alone, ETFs attracted $68.6B in net equity flows. That dwarfs every other asset class combined. The U.S. led all regions with $19.8B in net inflows this…
