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WEN: Shorts Hold Steady as Earnings Clock Ticks Down

WEN enters the final stretch before its August 7 earnings report with short interest barely budging, options traders leaning bullish, and a stock that just gave back nearly 10% on the week — a setup that sharpens the…

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CPI FIM Jumps 13% With August Results Five Weeks Out

ORCL — CPI FIM SA on the Luxembourg BDL exchange — has moved sharply higher this week, gaining 13.5% to close at €0.80, its best weekly performance in recent memory and a reversal from the near-10% decline reported…

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NTSK: Short Interest Doubles, Street Stays Bullish

Netskope heads into the week carrying a sharp internal contradiction — short interest has roughly doubled over the past month while the analyst community remains uniformly constructive, a standoff that sets up the next…

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HWM Races Toward August Earnings on a Seven-Week Win Streak

Howmet Aerospace enters its August 6 earnings report with the stock up 7% on the week and analysts still chasing it higher — a setup where momentum and fundamentals are aligned but the valuation conversation is getting…

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Earnings, Bears, and Analyst Cuts Define a Busy Friday

Markets are on edge as a packed earnings week begins. Short sellers are doubling down. Analysts are cooling on utilities. The options market is pricing in more pain ahead. MSFT Microsoft reports fiscal Q4 on Wednesday.…

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Bears Circle Mega-Cap Earnings Week

Options flow is flashing bearish signals as markets brace for a heavy earnings week. Negative bets dominate the most-watched names, with TSLA, META, and MU all drawing concentrated put activity heading into…

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Utilities Hammered as Analysts Trim Targets

A wave of target price cuts hit the US utility sector today. At least eight major utilities saw reduced price targets from the analyst consensus, including DUK, SO, XEL, DTE, and FE. None saw rating changes. The cuts…

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Bears Double Down on Chewy and Hertz

Short sellers piled into two consumer names this week. CHWY saw its SI % of Free Float climb to 72.4% — up 5.8 percentage points in seven days. HTZ followed close behind, rising 4.9 points to 75.0% of float. Both…

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Bond Beats Stocks in Weekly Surprise Shift

Fixed income claimed the top spot for weekly ETF inflows. Bonds pulled in a net $23.1B over the past week. Equities collected $15.9B — a solid number, but second place. Over three months, the picture reverses sharply.…

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Mega-Cap Week Meets a Bear Revival

The biggest story of the week is earnings. Microsoft reports fiscal Q4 2026 results on Wednesday after the close. It is the key test for AI sentiment in 2026. Meta and Amazon follow later in the week. Apple rounds out…

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Analysts Cut Charter, Lift Energy Names

Analyst target prices shifted across several sectors on Friday, with cable, utilities, and energy all seeing notable moves. CHTR drew the sharpest negative attention. The consensus target price fell to $208.47 from…

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Executives Cash Out as ServiceTitan Faces Pressure

Insider filings from the past two weeks reveal a wave of selling across US markets. The standout story is TTAN ServiceTitan. Bessemer Venture Partners — a 10% owner with a board seat — dumped over $36M worth of shares…

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Markets Hold Breath as Mega-Cap Earnings Flood In

This is the most important earnings week of the year. Microsoft reports fiscal Q4 results on Wednesday after the close. The $2.8 trillion company is the single biggest test of AI spending sentiment. Amazon and Apple…

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Big Tech Dominates This Week's Earnings

Three of the world's largest companies report this week. Markets face a heavy slate of results from Saturday through Thursday. Today and Monday bring the first wave. CDNS Cadence Design Systems and CLS Celestica both…

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Wall Street Lifts Energy Stocks, Cuts Cable Giant

Analysts upgraded target prices across the energy sector on Friday. XOM, CVX, and COP all saw consensus targets nudge higher. The energy rally follows solid quarterly results across the sector. Oilfield services firm…

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Slim Dumps $112M in PBF Energy

Carlos Slim has been selling PBF Energy stock at a relentless pace this month. The Mexican billionaire filed disclosures this week showing he offloaded 2.22 million shares worth $112M since late June. The selling…

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Bears Press the Gas on Chewy, Hertz and SpaceX

Short sellers turned up the heat this week. Columbia Financial saw the sharpest move — SI % FF jumped from 5.3% to 27.6% in just seven days. That is a 22-point spike, one of the largest weekly increases tracked across…

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China and Bonds Lead as US ETFs Bleed

US-listed equity ETFs shed a net $9.4B over the past week. Meanwhile, money rotated hard into China, bonds, and emerging markets. The divergence from the 3-month trend is sharp. China pulled in $8.2B over the past…

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