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BAX Heads Into Q2 Print With Bears on the Back Foot

Baxter International enters its July 30 earnings report in a curious position: short sellers have been retreating even as the stock climbs, but the analyst community remains divided on whether the recovery has…

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BBVA Bulls Hold the Options Market Ahead of Q2 Print

BBVA heads into its July 30 second-quarter earnings release with options positioning decisively tilted toward optimism and the borrow market almost entirely relaxed. The clearest pre-earnings signal is in options, and…

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AVY Options Sentiment Flips Bullish Before Thursday Print

Avery Dennison arrives at its Thursday earnings release with the most striking development now in options markets — where sentiment has undergone a dramatic reversal in the week leading into the print. The options…

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Mega-Cap Earnings Week Collides With NVIDIA's Korea Blitz

This week belongs to earnings. MSFT, AAPL, and AMZN all report in the next four days. Microsoft is the single biggest event — its $2.8tn market cap means every line of cloud and AI revenue moves markets. KO and SPGI…

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Apple, Microsoft, Amazon Headline Massive Earnings Week

Three of the world's largest companies report results in the next four days. Markets are bracing for a critical stretch of earnings. CDNS kicks off today after the close. The EDA software giant carries a $90bn market…

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Citigroup Drives Bold Rail and Healthcare Upgrades

Citigroup analyst Ariel Rosa made two aggressive calls on US railroads. He lifted UNP to Buy with a $349 target. That is a $23 jump from the prior $326 target. He also upgraded NSC to Hold with a target of $376, up…

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Insiders Offload Tens of Millions

A wave of insider selling has hit US markets over the past two weeks, with filings revealing coordinated exits across several names. Dell Technologies saw the biggest disclosed activity. Silver Lake Group, a…

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China Leads as US Loses Ground

China pulled in $8.1B in a single week. That is the standout story in global ETF flows right now. It topped every other geography. Meanwhile, US-focused funds bled $4.0B over the same period — a sharp reversal from…

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Big Tech Earnings, Oil at $100, and a Tale of Two Trades

Brent crude pushed back above $100 a barrel. That is now the dominant macro force in markets. Bond yields are rising in response. Inflation expectations are being reset globally. The move is lifting energy stocks.…

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Bulls Load Up on Rails and Energy; HTZ Bears Dig In

Options sentiment in the S&P 500 is skewing bullish this week. Union Pacific tops the index for positive options flow. Its RSI sits at 72.8. The stock is up 33% year-to-date. Earnings are due soon, and traders are…

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Analysts Lift Targets on Dell, McKesson, Rails

Citigroup's Daniel Grosslight raised his price target on MCK to $1,000 from $945 today. That's a $55 lift, and Citi kept a Buy rating. Grosslight also bumped CAH to $265 from $245, another Buy. Both drug distributors…

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Insiders Dump $267M, One Firm Buys

Sellers dominated insider filings this week. Silver Lake Group filed to reveal it sold $228 million worth of DELL shares in late June and early July. The private equity firm made 239 separate transactions, unloading…

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Bears Back Off Palantir, But Pile Into HTZ and CLBK

Short sellers are retreating from PLTR ahead of earnings. SI % of FF sits at just 3.9%. Shares available to borrow vs. shorts stands at a massive 9,304% — meaning bears have ample room to add, but most are choosing not…

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McKesson Shorts Retreat as August 5 Earnings Come Into Focus

McKesson enters the week with shorts covering aggressively and options tilting toward calls — an unusual degree of alignment for a stock still trading 10% below the Street's consensus target ahead of its August 5…

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IOVA Shorts Hold Steady as Earnings Loom

Iovance Biotherapeutics heads into its August 6 earnings print with short sellers largely dug in — covering has stalled, the stock has given back its momentum, and options traders are quietly turning more…

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FLNC Enters Earnings With Shorts Dug In and Street Divided

Fluence Energy heads into its August 5 earnings report in a difficult spot — down 37% over the past month, carrying nearly 20% short interest, and facing an analyst community that upgraded the stock just as it fell…

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HUT's Relative Shield Erodes as Sector Rout Deepens

HUT has slipped another notch this week — and for the first time in this sell-off cycle, the relative resilience story that defined the stock is showing signs of strain. Tasco's shares closed at VND 14,900 on Friday,…

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