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Short sellers accelerated positions in several notable names this week. CHWY saw the biggest jump. Short interest hit 80.4% of free float on July 28 — up 14.2 percentage points in just seven days. HTZ is close behind.…
The week's dominant theme is earnings. Meta Platforms, Microsoft, and Apple all report in the coming days. Their AI spending guidance will set the tone for markets into August. Today's slate is already busy. Procter &…
Negative options bets are piling up across the chip sector. The Nasdaq 100 briefly fell into correction territory this week. Traders are responding fast. NVDA tops the negative bets table with an RSI of just 42. The $5…
Analysts raised targets across several sectors on Tuesday. The moves follow a busy earnings period. PayPal got the most attention in fintech. Consensus target prices rose to $56.95 from $55.53. That is a modest $1.40…
Board-linked investors filed to sell over $23M in LQDA shares last week. Canaan VIII LP, a venture capital fund with board representation at Liquidia Corporation, reported dumping nearly 196,000 shares across three…
The headline story this week is a sharp reversal in Technology. Info Tech ETFs bled $6.5B in net outflows over the past week. That flips the script entirely. Over three months, the same sector pulled in $65.5B — the…
The heaviest earnings week of the year is underway. Procter & Gamble, Boston Scientific, Humana, and GE HealthCare all report today. Later this week, Meta Platforms, Microsoft, and Apple drop results. Their AI spending…
Today brings a heavy load of S&P 500 results. Procter & Gamble — a $347bn consumer giant — reports this morning. Investors will watch for any sign of tariff pressure on margins. Boston Scientific also reports today.…
Analysts delivered a split verdict on Tuesday. Target price cuts hit GLW and healthcare names. Upgrades favoured industrials and consumer cyclicals. Corning took the sharpest target cut. The consensus price target…
Insider filings from the past two weeks reveal a clear split. Executives at several companies are selling near highs. Others are putting fresh cash to work. The most eye-catching buying came from ELV. CEO Gail…
Short sellers made a decisive move on CHWY this week. Short interest jumped to 81.2% of free float — up from 65.8% just seven days ago. That 15-point weekly surge is the largest single-week rise across large-cap US…
Chip stocks tumbled on July 28 as an AI-driven sell-off deepened. The Nasdaq 100 briefly entered correction territory ahead of a packed Big Tech earnings week. NVDA sits at RSI 42. TSLA is more extreme — RSI just 27.3…
Analyst target prices shifted across several sectors today. The moves point to diverging views on industrials and healthcare. NUE led the positive revisions. The consensus target for Nucor Corporation rose to $273.88…
Insider filings this week reveal a wave of selling — but one European standout is moving in the opposite direction. The biggest story out of Japan: Fast Retailing's founder and CEO Tadashi Yanai filed disclosures on…
Short sellers turned aggressive this week. CHWY saw the biggest move — its short interest jumped to 81.2% of free float, up 15 percentage points in just seven days. Bears appear unconvinced by any near-term recovery…
Institutional money poured into equities and bonds last week. The overall tone is risk-on, but the cracks inside sectors tell a sharper story. Equity ETFs pulled in $30.0B net in the past week. Fixed income added…
Tuesday, July 28 is one of the busiest earnings days of the season. Over 30 S&P 500 names report. Markets are digesting results across logistics, beverages, aerospace, and payments — all at once. Meanwhile, a tech…
Analysts cut targets broadly on Monday. Most changes were modest, but the tone was mixed across sectors. Hubbell was the session's standout. Analysts upgraded the electrical products maker. The consensus moved from…
Tuesday is one of the heaviest days of the reporting season. KO and UPS both reported this morning. BA and PYPL report this afternoon. RCL is a key watch — any guidance upgrade could lift the entire cruise sector.…
Wall Street made several notable calls on Monday, with Citigroup leading a wave of target price adjustments across sectors. Charter Communications drew attention after Citigroup analyst Michael Rollins cut his price…
