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The week of July 18 kicks off a flurry of major corporate results. GOOGL leads the headlines on Wednesday, July 22. Alphabet posts Q2 2026 results after the close. The $2 trillion search and AI giant carries just 1.5%…
Analysts are backing big banks while cutting targets on streaming and media names. Morgan Stanley scored an upgrade Friday. The consensus shifted to 13 Buy ratings from 10. The average target price rose to $231.86. The…
A venture capital backer of TTAN has been relentlessly dumping shares. Bessemer Venture Partners filed $111M in sales over the past three weeks. The firm sold at prices ranging from $68 to $80 per share. It shows no…
Short sellers made bold moves this week. HTZ and SPCX lead the biggest short interest jumps across US markets. Hertz hits 70% SI — HTZ now has 70.1% of its free float shorted. That's up nearly 10 percentage points in…
The market's attention this week is fixed on earnings. Alphabet reports Q2 on Tuesday, July 22 — the single biggest print of the week. Options traders are already positioning. Put flow is running hot on Visa ahead of…
Options markets are sending clear signals ahead of a packed earnings week. Visa, RTX Corporation, and Chubb are all drawing notable activity as traders position ahead of quarterly results. Visa stands out most sharply.…
GOOGL headlines a packed earnings week. Alphabet drops Q2 2026 results on Tuesday, July 22. Markets will focus on ad revenue and AI monetisation. INTC reports after the bell on Wednesday, July 23. Intel's turnaround…
Wall Street analysts turned bullish on financials Friday. Morgan Stanley was upgraded, pushing consensus estimates higher. Its average analyst target now sits at $231.86, up from $226.48. State Street also won a target…
Short sellers are moving fast this week. SPCX (Space Exploration Technologies) saw the biggest weekly jump — SI % of Free Float rocketed from 3.7% to 27.6%, a gain of nearly 24 points in just seven days. HTZ remains a…
This week's big question is earnings. Alphabet reports Q2 on Tuesday, July 22. That is the most-watched print of the week. Intel follows Wednesday. Investors want proof its turnaround is real. Charter Communications…
Financials dominated today's analyst activity. Morgan Stanley was upgraded by consensus, with the average target price rising to $231.86 from $226.48. The bank's strong Q2 results appear to be driving the…
Corporate insiders have been busy at the filing desk this week. The biggest story is ServiceTitan, where Bessemer Venture Partners filed sales totalling over $56M across five separate transactions since July 2. The…
HTZ is one of Wall Street's most explosive short stories right now. Short interest hit 70% of free float as of July 16, up sharply from 60% just one week earlier. Availability has collapsed to zero. That means there…
Markets are heading into a crucial stretch of earnings season with geopolitics adding extra noise. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq slipped as chip stocks struggled this week. South Korean markets dropped over 5% as tech…
Pre-earnings options activity is flashing across multiple sectors this week, with analysts and traders repositioning ahead of several key prints. TXN heads into its Q2 report after a difficult stretch for chip stocks.…
Analysts made their biggest calls in financials this week. Morgan Stanley picked up an upgrade. Its consensus target rose to $231.86, from $226.48. The bank carries just 1.5% short interest — bears are not…
Bessemer Venture Partners has been filing sell orders in ServiceTitan almost every single day this month. The VC firm has now offloaded over $111 million worth of shares since late June. Each block of stock sold at…
Short sellers made their biggest move of the week into SPCX. SpaceX's short interest jumped from 3.65% to 27.57% of free float in just seven days. That's a gain of nearly 24 percentage points. The stock's $993B market…
The biggest event of the week is GOOGL on Tuesday, July 22. Alphabet reports Q2 results after the close. INTC follows Wednesday after the bell — investors want proof Intel's turnaround is real. CHTR reports Thursday…
GOOGL leads the charge this week. Alphabet reports Q2 2026 results on Tuesday, July 22, after the close. It is the most-watched print of the week. INTC follows on Wednesday, July 23. Intel reports Q2 after market…
