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Short interest in JLL has climbed to its highest level in at least a year, with shares borrowed against the free float rising 63% over the past month to 2.6%, even as the borrow market itself remains wide open. The…
Illinois Tool Works reports its third-quarter results on October 27, trading at $275.75 after recovering about 1.3% on the week, modestly ahead of the median decline among its closest industrial peers. The analyst…
Freeport-McMoRan fell 6.3% over the past week to $65.18, a softer landing than most of its copper peers, which shed between 9% and 14% over the same period. The relative resilience stands out. SCCO dropped 9.0% on the…
Among Latin American consumer names, FMX carries one of the lighter short footprints in the peer group. Arca Continental and Ambev both trade with meaningfully higher short interest ratios. FEMSA's own short position…
FirstEnergy, the Ohio-based regulated electric utility serving around six million customers across the mid-Atlantic and Midwest, reports Q3 results on Tuesday after the close, sitting roughly flat on the week while…
Essex Property Trust gained 3.3% over the past week, outrunning the median 2.4% advance across its closest residential REIT peers, while short interest of 3.6% of free float puts it among the less crowded names in the…
Enterprise Products Partners reports Q3 2026 results on October 27 with remarkably little tension in its positioning data, making the debate about fundamentals more central than the mechanics of short selling. Short…
Among the specialty chemicals names closest to ECL, short positioning varies sharply. SHW and RPM have seen their shares fall 2.5% and 2.9% respectively in a single session, while PPG and AXTA dropped a further 2.2%…
GLW has shed 22% over the past month, dropping from above $159 to $123.69, as investors reassess whether the AI data-center narrative can hold against a backdrop of cyclical risk and peak-multiple anxiety. Options…
Coca-Cola FEMSA reports Monday with the options market flashing an unusually bullish tilt, a shift from the neutral positioning that framed the previous earnings preview. The call-heavy skew is the clearest signal…
KO carries the lightest short positioning of any major beverage name going into Tuesday's Q3 results, with short interest at 1.27% of the free float versus elevated readings across several correlated peers. The stock…
CMS Energy gained just 1.3% over the past week, less than a third of the 4%-plus median advance posted by its closest regulated-utility peers, even as short interest edged back from its month-long build. The…
BA reports Q3 results on October 27 at $188.35, down about 5% over the past month and still sitting more than $75 below the Street's mean price target, a gap that has narrowed mainly because analysts keep trimming…
Banco Santander heads into its 28 October earnings release with a borrow market that has moved sharply against the bears, even as the stock has continued to fall. Short sellers have trimmed exposure since…
Applied Industrial Technologies lost 4.1% over the past week, a softer drop than the median decline of 5.1% across its closest peers. MSM Industrial fell 14.0% and DXPE dropped 11.2%, while WCC shed 6.6%. AIT held up…
Short sellers made a clear call on AI infrastructure this week. CoreWeave saw its short interest jump 3.7 percentage points in just six days, reaching 24.8% of free float as of October 22. Bears are circling the cloud…
Microsoft and Amazon are the centrepiece of one of the busiest earnings weeks of the season. Both report Thursday alongside Intel, creating a single-day triple-header for big tech. Microsoft's cloud growth pace is the…
Tech earnings week is pulling options flow heavily to the call side. Union Pacific, Cintas, and Illinois Tool Works all show 100% positive options flow over the past seven days, according to ORTEX data. That signals…
Microsoft and Amazon headline an unusually heavy earnings slate this week. Both report Thursday, October 29, alongside Intel in a triple-header for big tech. Microsoft kicks off Wednesday evening with its fiscal Q1…
Taiwan's export order data, published by the Ministry of Economic Affairs, broke a 42-year record in September. Total orders reached NT$3,622.3bn, the largest September reading since the series began in 1984. That…
