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Truist Securities cut its price target on INTC from $108 to $72 on Friday, the biggest target swing in the latest round of analyst updates. Truist kept its Hold rating. The 33% reduction stands out at a time when short…
NVIDIA director Mark Stevens filed to show he sold $411 million worth of shares between 31 August and 2 September. The seven-trade cluster, reported to regulators between 1 and 2 September, is the biggest disclosed…
Short sellers stepped up pressure on several mid-cap names this week, with LQDA (Liquidia Corporation) seeing the biggest notable move among larger stocks. Its SI % of FF jumped 8 percentage points in seven days to…
China attracted the most net new money in the past week, pulling in $11.1B of ETF inflows. Japan was close behind at $6.5B. The U.S. added $10.0B in net terms, but its flow imbalance score of 56.6 signals a market…
AAPL reports after the close tonight, the single biggest earnings print of the week by market cap at $5.1 trillion. Chip stocks are live ahead of the number. NVDA carries active options expiries every few days through…
Inovio Pharmaceuticals grabbed the options market's attention Friday. The FDA approved its plasmid DNA-based immunotherapy for recurrent respiratory papillomatosis. Calls running to the January 2027 expiry saw interest…
Today marks the start of one of the busiest reporting weeks of the season. Nearly 2,000 companies are scheduled to report globally between now and Thursday. Today and tomorrow bring the heaviest European flow. SAF…
Wells Fargo dominated analyst activity on Friday, with a sweeping set of target price changes across pharma and healthcare. The biggest upward call went to LLY. Wells Fargo raised its target on Eli Lilly from $1,330 to…
UBER President and COO Andrew Gordon MacDonald filed two open-market purchases on September 8, totalling roughly $5.3M in Uber shares. He bought 54,325 shares on September 4 at an average price near $75.60, spending…
Short sellers sharpened their positions on several well-known names this week. Data from ORTEX as of 29 October shows the clearest movers and some notable extremes across the market. WOLF sits at 88.6% SI of free…
DoorDash is buying Instacart for $17 billion. It is the biggest consumer tech deal of the year. The combination links on-demand food delivery with grocery logistics. Salesforce also made a move today, acquiring Rune…
Options markets are signalling caution across several key names today as a heavy earnings slate, Fed commentary, and macro headwinds from Europe converge. RDDT carries the sharpest bearish print in today's flow.…
The final days of October bring a dense slate of results. Auto earnings dominate the back half of the week. Ferrari reports Tuesday 3 November. Honda Motor follows on Thursday the 6th. Austrian car registration data,…
German unemployment reached 4.1% in September 2026. That is the highest September reading in a decade, above the previous September peak of 3.8% set in 2016. Italy added to the picture: unemployment there climbed to…
Analysts delivered a string of downgrades Friday, with consumer staples and semiconductors taking the most heat. The Hershey Company suffered the sharpest consensus cut of the session. The average analyst target…
Insiders across several large-cap technology names have been reducing positions over the past month, according to ORTEX data. The pattern is clear: sellers dominate, and the biggest names are in software and…
Short sellers have been busy this week. The data shows several notable moves across sectors, with one semiconductor name standing out above the rest. WOLF remains the most shorted mid-cap on US exchanges. Its short…
China ETFs led all geographies this week. They pulled in a net $17.9B, the strongest single-country reading across the board, with a flow imbalance of 78.7. That is a decisive tilt toward buying. Over three months,…
The earnings calendar this week is dominated by automakers, with real-economy data giving early reads on several names. Kia Corporation reports today, and Austrian car registration data running 9% above year-ago levels…
Options traders turned sharply defensive on EHC this week. Short interest climbed 20.4% in seven days to 3.3% of free float, the highest level since late September. Put activity spiked ahead of the healthcare firm's…
