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Earnings season delivered sharp moves across sectors on Thursday. Norfolk Southern beat expectations as a tighter trucking market pushed rail demand higher. Texas Instruments Q3 results prompted a round of analyst…
Options traders showed sharp conviction across two names on Thursday, with WFRD and NTRS generating the most unusual flow of the session. Weatherford International call options surged after the oilfield services firm…
Weatherford International closed Wednesday up 7.8% at $85.49, its biggest single-day gain in recent weeks, and the options market moved sharply with it. The put/call ratio jumped to 0.1552, three standard deviations…
Earnings season hits full stride this week. Dow Inc. reports today, kicking off a stretch of major industrials results. In Europe, Sartorius Stedim Biotech and Schindler Holding both post numbers today. Skandinaviska…
Taiwan export orders reached $114.2bn in September 2026, up 62% on the same month a year earlier. That is the largest September in the dataset since records began in 1984, according to Taiwan's Ministry of Economic…
IBM led the positive analyst moves today. The consensus target rose to $252 from $243. That follows strong quarterly results and reflects growing confidence in the company's AI software push. Texas Instruments also…
Elon Musk has made a $1 billion personal investment in SKYD, David Ellison's Skydance Corporation, according to a Semafor exclusive published Thursday. The move adds another high-profile name to Skydance's cap table…
Short interest in CRWV jumped 3.67 percentage points in seven days. The AI cloud firm now has 24.1% of its free float sold short. Bears are building fast. LCID sits at 64.3% of free float sold short. That rose 1.7…
Taiwan's $114.2B record September export orders are showing up in ETF flows. Asia is pulling in institutional money at a pace that overshadows almost every other geographic theme right now. The US remains the biggest…
Equifax spent most of October as one of the more defensively positioned names in the data services peer group. That changed fast. The stock gained 16.8% over the past week, more than double the 6.5% median move for its…
Short sellers have built their largest position in Peoples Bancorp in at least a year. Short interest stands at 6.14% of free float, up 9.6% over the past week and 23.9% over the past month. The weekly build has been…
Short sellers added most to InnovAge (INNV): short interest rose 2.3 points in a session to 10.4% of free float, the highest reading in at least a year. The largest cover was in Legend Biotech (LEGN), where short…
Comcast landed the sharpest corporate headline of the morning. The media group said it expects a significant restructuring charge in Q4 as it redesigns its organisation. The announcement hit alongside a broader…
Three distinct signals on DRTS converged this week. The borrow market tightened sharply. Options positioning flipped in a single session. And retail attention hit its highest reading in months. The most abrupt move is…
Options sentiment turned defensive on Thursday as Middle East tensions rattled markets and chip stocks faced a second wave of selling pressure. SPY futures dropped in early trade, with S&P 500 puts dominating flow. The…
Today brings a broad sweep of confirmed earnings. Swedbank reports this morning, one of the largest Nordic banks at $44.8bn market cap. Sandvik also posts today. In Europe, Schindler and Rentokil Initial are out…
Analysts raised their consensus target price on IBM to $252.09 from $243.09 this week. That is a $9 jump and the sharpest single-week move among the large-cap names in the latest round of changes. The stock carries a…
Open-market insider data from the vendor table covers trades filed through 8 September 2026. The SEC EDGAR first-party tables were not accessible in this session, limiting granularity on C-level names and 10b5-1 flags…
Archer-Daniels-Midland has shed 5.1% over the past week to $79.36, roughly in line with its closest peer group. Beneath the surface, short sellers are cutting positions and options traders are buying calls at some of…
Short sellers added aggressively to CoreWeave positions this week. Short interest hit 24.1% of free float on October 21, up 3.7 percentage points in just seven days. The AI cloud computing firm carries a $28.5bn market…
