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Friday brings one of the heaviest earnings sessions of the year. ExxonMobil and Chevron both report this morning, facing pressure from softer crude prices. AbbVie releases pharma results at 9am ET — Skyrizi and Rinvoq…
GVA's options market lit up on July 31. The put/call ratio spiked to 0.84 — its highest level in 52 weeks. That reading sits 4.3 standard deviations above its 20-day mean of 0.12. Options traders rarely show fear this…
Analysts are lifting targets on infrastructure and electrical services stocks. Oppenheimer upgraded EME (EMCOR Group) to Buy with a $1,200 price target. That is up from $1,100 previously. EMCOR carries a market cap of…
Insider selling dominated US filings this week. Charles Schwab, founder and co-chairman of SCHW, filed $20M in sales across July 28–29. He sold 189,000 shares at around $105 each. The filings appeared on July 30. AMAT…
Short sellers turned decisively bearish on rental car names and battered consumer stocks this week. The moves are among the sharpest seen in months. HTZ now carries 84.6% SI % FF — up nearly 10 percentage points in…
Japan and China ETFs are pulling in billions this week. That is the clearest signal in the latest fund flow data — money is rotating hard into Asia while the US market quietly dominates absolute volumes. The US…
Earnings season is reshaping options flow. Bears are targeting the rental car space hard. CAR — Avis Budget Group — carries a short interest of 36.2% of free float. Its short score sits at 73.9. Options negative bets…
Friday marks one of the busiest mornings of earnings season. ExxonMobil and Chevron both report today, with analysts expecting their strongest results in 15 quarters. Options flow is bullish on both names. Brent above…
A wave of insider selling hit US markets this week. Three Darden Restaurants executives filed sales on July 30. CFO Rajesh Vennam sold $1.78M worth of shares on July 29. The HR Director and a Senior VP also sold the…
Today is one of the busiest days of earnings season. Over 170 S&P 500 companies report this week. Today — Friday, July 31 ExxonMobil kicks off the morning. The $650bn oil giant reports at 9:30am ET. Chevron follows at…
Charles Schwab, founder and Co-Chairman of SCHW, filed three sell transactions this week totalling over $22 million. The trades were executed between July 24 and July 29, at prices ranging from $101.72 to $105.82 per…
Analysts lifted targets across several key names on Thursday. Technology and healthcare dominated the upgrades. Datadog saw its consensus target rise to $269.97 from $268.55. The cloud monitoring firm carries an $87…
Bears piled into car rental stocks this week. Hertz hit 84.6% short interest as a percentage of free float on July 30. That is up nearly 10 points in just seven days. Avis Budget Group is not far behind. Its SI% FF…
Short sellers turned bearish on rental car stocks this week. Hertz SI % of FF hit 84.6% on July 30 — up nearly 10 points in just seven days. Rival Avis Budget Group also saw shorts climb to 36.2% of FF, a 7-point…
Amazon is the morning's biggest story. Shares surged 12% in pre-market trading after blowout Q2 results. Analysts say the company is already generating meaningful returns from its AI investments. The move puts Amazon…
Today is packed with major releases. XOM (ExxonMobil), ABBV (AbbVie), and CVX (Chevron) all report Q2 results this morning. LIN (Linde) also delivers figures today. These four alone carry a combined market cap above…
Analysts delivered a sharp downgrade to EIX on Thursday. Edison International fell from Hold to Sell at consensus level. The California utility's average target price now sits at $76.25. Short interest is a modest 4.2%…
A wave of insider selling hit US and European markets this week. The biggest names filed fresh disclosures showing heavy exits near multi-year highs. Healthcare leads the sell-off. At MEDP, founder and Chairman/CEO…
Short sellers stepped up pressure on several US names this week. Hertz leads the charge with the biggest weekly jump among mid-cap stocks. SI hit 84.3% of free float — up nearly 11 points in seven days. Availability is…
Equity ETFs pulled in a net $75B in a single week. That is the dominant story in global fund flows right now. Risk appetite is firmly on. The U.S. led all regions with $40.2B in net inflows last week. Flow imbalance…
