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US plug-in vehicle registrations fell to a four-year low in July 2026. That headline reading from the ORTEX Alt Data layer, sourced from US state fleet registers, sets the tone for a week in which several real-economy…
Analyst target price cuts dominated activity on Sunday 25 October, with several large-cap names absorbing downgrades as earnings season sharpens expectations. General Electric drew the most notable cut. The consensus…
Uber Technologies President and COO Andrew Gordon MacDonald filed on 8 September, disclosing he purchased roughly $5.3 million worth of UBER shares on 4 September. The two tranches totalled 70,000 shares. Open-market…
Short sellers are loading up on CoreWeave. Its SI % of FF climbed to 24.8% this week, up from 21.2% just seven days ago. That 3.6 percentage point jump is one of the largest moves among US stocks with a market cap…
China and Japan pulled in a combined $21.3B in ETF flows last week. That eclipsed every other geography and set the tone for a market tilting clearly toward Asia and away from passive active strategies. China was the…
The week's dominant story is a packed earnings calendar. Microsoft and Amazon both report this week, with a combined market cap above $6.5 trillion. Chipotle and Intel follow later in the week. On Tuesday, Coca-Cola…
Options markets are pricing in a turbulent week. Big Tech reporting season is in full swing, with AMZN, MSFT, INTC and GOOGL all due to report Q3 results imminently. The chip sector is where sentiment has turned…
Microsoft and Amazon headline a dense schedule of results this week. Microsoft posts its earnings call Wednesday after the close. Amazon follows Thursday afternoon. Together the two companies carry a combined market…
Dalrymple Bay Infrastructure enters its November earnings window with shorts still building and a dividend score that stands as the stock's clearest institutional draw. The short-rebuilding trend documented earlier…
Immunovant has dropped 24% over the past month to $28.41, yet short sellers have been quietly trimming rather than pressing the bet, creating an unusual tension between the price action and the positioning underneath…
Onto Innovation makes process control equipment for advanced semiconductor packaging and leading-edge logic, a narrow but fast-growing niche at the intersection of AI infrastructure and next-generation chip…
The Pennant Group heads into its November 6 results with two conflicting currents: short interest climbing at its fastest monthly pace in months while options traders lean unusually bullish. Short interest has risen…
DDOG gained 9.1% over the past week, almost exactly in line with its closest cybersecurity and observability peers. CRWD added 13.3% and CGNT rose the same over the same period, while PANW climbed 11.3%. FTNT was the…
The latest round of analyst updates is skewed toward target price trims, even as several companies delivered strong quarterly results. GE saw its consensus target cut to $378.90 from $382.81. ABT had its average target…
CHWY enters the final stretch before its December 2 earnings date with short sellers pulling back and options traders growing more bullish, a continuation of the shift that began last week but now confirmed by a second…
SNAP reports Q3 results on November 4, and the positioning picture heading into that print is notably less hostile than it was two months ago. Short interest has pulled back from its mid-September peak. At 8.8% of the…
Antero Midstream heads into its October 28 Q3 results with retail attention at an unusual high and the Street sitting firmly on the sidelines. The most striking signal this week is not in the lending market or the…
Motus Holdings enters its November 2 earnings event with a lending market that just went through a sharp squeeze and returned to calm, a valuation that still looks cheap, and a stock that has shed 7% over the past…
OrthoPediatrics Corp. heads into its Monday earnings release with a stock that has rallied sharply, insiders who have been trimming aggressively, and options traders who have just started to hedge. The most arresting…
Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises enters its November 10 earnings date with a painful month behind it, a concentrated activist register above it, and short sellers dug in at nearly a fifth of the float. The most striking…
