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BAX goes into its October 29 Q3 results with short interest building at the margins but the lending market signalling no real conviction behind the bearish positioning. Short interest has climbed 7.7% over the past…
BSAC heads into its October 29 earnings release with short sellers quietly adding pressure and the stock already nursing a 10% loss over the past month. The lending market tells a benign story for now. Borrow…
Banco de Chile reports Q3 results on October 29 with the lending market tightening sharply into the print, even as broader positioning remains relatively calm. The most notable pre-earnings development is in the borrow…
BBVA reports third-quarter results on October 29 with a positioning story that runs against the cautious pre-earnings grain: short sellers have been cutting exposure sharply, and options traders are leaning heavily…
Avery Dennison gained 3.7% last week to $181.83, outpacing the median 1.7% move among its closest packaging peers, while sitting roughly 10% below the analyst consensus target of $199.50. The stock reported Q3 results…
ATI fell 15.5% over the past week to close at $156.88, roughly double the median decline of 6.8% posted by its closest aerospace and specialty materials peers. Short interest climbed 34% over the past month to 3.5% of…
Short sellers are pushing hard into a handful of well-known names. CHWY stands out as the most shorted large-cap stock in the US market. Chewy's short interest hit 86.7% of free float as of 22 October. That is down…
The dominant signal today comes from the nuclear sector. Reactor output at AEP fell 10.0 standard deviations below its own history in the week to 29 September, per NRC data. CEG recorded the same extreme drop as of 23…
Options sentiment is shifting fast in the power sector. ORTEX alt data shows reactor output at CEG fell 10.0 standard deviations below its own history as of 23 October. The same collapse hit AEP a month earlier. Both…
The sharpest reading in the Nuclear Regulatory Commission dataset belongs to this week. Reactor output at AEP fell 10.0 standard deviations below its own history in the week to 29 September. CEG recorded the same…
More than 1,500 companies report this week. The auto sector dominates the headline risk in Europe. Tech and luxury goods round out a busy schedule. Today, UCB and Swiss vacuum valve maker VAT Group both post earnings.…
Consensus target prices shifted broadly on Monday, with defence and healthcare drawing the sharpest moves. Lockheed Martin saw its average analyst target edge up to $635.48, one of the few upward moves in an otherwise…
The ORTEX insider database for open-market US trades via SEC EDGAR Form 4 filings was unavailable in this session. The vendor insider table, which covers non-US markets, returned data only up to 8 September 2026,…
Short sellers added pressure to CRWV last week. CoreWeave's short interest as a percentage of free float rose 3.7 points to 24.8%, the biggest move among US names with market caps above $1 billion. The AI cloud…
China's appeal to ETF investors has jumped sharply this week. The country took in $14.7B in net flows over seven days. That is the biggest single-geography inflow in the weekly data, narrowly ahead of the US at $14.0B.…
The busiest earnings stretch of 2026 is now underway. Microsoft reports Wednesday after the close, followed by Amazon and Intel on Thursday. Coca-Cola and S&P Global drop numbers Tuesday before the open. Options flow…
Options flow is skewing bearish on semiconductors ahead of a packed earnings week. Negative bets ranked highest for MU, AMD, NVDA and INTC over the past seven days. That mirrors the RSI picture: all four sit below 40,…
Wednesday kicks off the heavy lifting. Microsoft reports after the close, with its earnings call scheduled for 5:30 pm ET. Chipotle Mexican Grill and eBay follow on the same day. Amphenol holds its call at 1 pm ET on…
Intuitive Surgical was the sharpest call of the session. Analysts cut the $157 billion robotics giant from a Buy to a Hold, trimming the consensus target price to $478. The stock carries just 2.2% short interest as a…
Tech insiders are cashing out. Arista Networks tops the list of stocks where insiders have sold the most over the past month. Executives filed sales as analysts trimmed price targets ahead of the company's Q3 results.…
