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Short sellers have nearly doubled their position in CX over the past month. Shares short climbed 42% in the 30 days to October 21, reaching roughly 16.5 million shares. The move accelerated in the second week of…
CSL has rallied 11% over the past month to $352.60, closing in on a consensus price target of $398.25 that now sits about 13% above the current price, with earnings due Monday October 26. Short sellers have added to…
Short sellers added to positions in CoreWeave this week. Short interest hit 24.1% of free float, up 3.7 percentage points in seven days. The AI cloud infrastructure firm has attracted growing skepticism despite its…
Brown & Brown arrives at Monday's Q3 print with the stock up 16% over the past month, options traders holding their most call-heavy position of the past year, and a Street consensus that sits almost exactly at the…
BBD reports Q3 results today with the put/call ratio at its highest level in over a month, even as insiders spent roughly $6.6 million buying shares in September. Options positioning is the sharpest pre-earnings…
The chip sector is at the centre of both the options market and the short seller community this week. NVIDIA carries the heaviest combined positive and negative options bets among US large caps. Its RSI sits at 47.9,…
Semiconductor stocks dominate both sides of the options ledger this week. Micron Technology and NVIDIA show the heaviest combined positive and negative bets over the past seven days. The flows reflect genuine two-way…
Taiwan's export order data, published by the Ministry of Economic Affairs, delivered a result that stands above anything in the series' history. Total orders reached $114.2bn in September 2026. The previous best…
Today brings a clutch of major European earnings. Safran, the French aerospace group worth $146bn, reports this morning. So does Air Liquide, one of Europe's biggest industrial groups at $124bn. Swiss building…
Analyst activity on 23 October centred on two names: TSLA and META. RBC Capital's Tom Narayan maintained a Buy on Tesla with a $480 price target. The broader consensus shifted too, with multiple changes pushing the…
NVIDIA director Mark Stevens filed sales worth more than $480M across a cluster of transactions on 31 August and 2 September, with filings reported to regulators on 2 September. The tranches ranged from $30M to $98M in…
CoreWeave has become one of the more watched names in the short seller community. Its short interest hit 24.1% of free float on 21 October. That is up nearly 4 percentage points in a single week. Cost to borrow remains…
China topped the global geography table this week, pulling in a net $12.0B in the past seven days. That is the single biggest country flow of the week. Taiwan added $5.6B, with a flow imbalance of 96.4, meaning almost…
The loudest story tonight is TSLA. SpaceX confirmed that any potential combination with Tesla would require approval from its special committee, board and controlling shareholder. That statement arrived alongside a…
Five firms lifted price targets on Kinder Morgan on Thursday, the day after its Q3 earnings release. The targets now cluster between $37 and $40, against a stock price of $33.97. That gap of 9% to 18% is the widest…
Options traders are positioning defensively ahead of a packed earnings week. The clearest signal came from MRTN. Its put/call ratio hit 0.46 on Thursday, a reading 4.3 standard deviations above its 20-day average of…
Today brings results from DOW and SEB, while Schindler reports from Switzerland. The week quickly escalates from there. Wednesday sees Coca-Cola and S&P Global open their books before the market. Centene also reports…
Freedom Broker upgraded Halliburton to Buy on October 22, the day the company's Q3 results landed. The upgrade came with a $40 target, up from $37, implying 8% upside from the $33.99 close. The Freedom Broker move is…
VeriSign reports earnings today. The put-call ratio has jumped to 0.63, more than 2.3 standard deviations above its 20-day mean of 0.23, the sharpest options skew toward downside protection in months. The move in the…
Barclays is the analyst house to watch today. Ross Sandler raised his META target from $780 to $880, a $100 jump, while keeping a Buy rating. That new target sits well above the current consensus average of $833. On…
