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Kia Corporation reports today. Austrian car registration data leads its revenue by 45 days and is running 9% above the same quarter last year, three months in, per ORTEX Alt Data. That gives the print a modestly…
Two downgrades stood out on Friday. HSY and KLAC both lost analyst support as fresh data pointed to ongoing pressure in their respective sectors. The Hershey Company saw its consensus rating slip a notch, with the…
UBER President and COO Andrew Gordon MacDonald filed purchases worth roughly $5.3M on 8 September, buying 70,000 shares at around $75 on 4 September. Open-market buys by C-suite executives carry weight. MacDonald's…
Short sellers turned aggressive this week. Wolfspeed now has 88.6% of its free float shorted, up nearly 5 percentage points over the past seven days. The semiconductor maker carries a 9.6-day cost to borrow. Its float…
Friday is one of the heaviest reporting days of the year. Over 1,900 companies post results globally. In the S&P 500, AbbVie ($514B pharma), ExxonMobil, and Chevron all report today. The two oil majors together account…
A heavy earnings calendar is driving notable options positioning across autos, aerospace, and energy as Friday expirations dominate today's open interest. TSLA carries the most active options strip of any single name…
Today, Friday 30 October, is one of the busiest days of the season. More than 1,900 companies report globally. In the S&P 500 alone, the morning is packed. AbbVie, the $514bn pharma giant, posts at 1pm ET. ExxonMobil…
SO sits at the sharpest end of this week's real-economy signals. NRC reactor status data shows SO's nuclear output fell 10.0 standard deviations below its own history as of 28 October. That is an extreme outlier by any…
Boston Scientific took the heaviest analyst fire on Friday. Jefferies downgraded the stock from Buy to Hold. The firm cut its target from $60 to $46. Canaccord Genuity kept its Buy rating but slashed its own target…
The latest batch of insider filings, reported on 8 September 2026, shows a clear pattern: selling dominates, and the amounts are large. The headline trade belongs to Fosun Pharma Industrial, the promoter-group…
Short sellers added pressure across several mid-cap names this week. Data from ORTEX covering the seven days to 28 October shows the biggest moves among stocks with market caps above $500 million. CBRS (Cerebras…
China led all geographies this week by a wide margin. ETFs targeting Chinese equities pulled in $17.9B net over the past five days, a flow_imbalance score of 78.7 indicating strong buying pressure. That compares with…
Intel crashed 23% overnight after its earnings miss. The move sharpened an already crowded short picture across semiconductors. SanDisk reports tonight after a 492% year-to-date run. Options expiries cluster around…
Earnings season is driving unusual options activity across several key names. Retail attention around the Goldman Sachs S&P 500 Premium Income ETF (GPIX) spiked 10 standard deviations above its own history in the week…
Today brings the first major print. REGN reports this morning, with its Q3 earnings call already underway at 8:30am ET. The $80bn biomaker faces investor scrutiny over its Dupixent franchise outlook. Sunday evening…
Boston Scientific is the day's biggest analyst story. Three separate calls hit this morning, all pointing lower. Jefferies cut BSX from Buy to Hold and slashed its target from $60 to $46. Canaccord Genuity kept its Buy…
An NVIDIA director filed to offload more than $410 million in stock in early September. Mark A. Stevens, an independent board member, sold over 1.8 million shares across four days, at prices around $220 to $226. The…
Short sellers stepped up pressure across several mid-cap names this week. Surrozen saw the sharpest move: its SI % FF jumped 10.5 percentage points in seven days to reach 35.4% as of 28 October. Grindr was not far…
The biggest print of the week is AAPL on Sunday night. The $5 trillion company reports Q4 results after the bell on November 2. AMGN and CRBG follow Monday morning. ALL and COR report Tuesday. The sequence gives…
Bearish options bets dominated semiconductor stocks this week. Micron Technology led the negative side, topping ORTEX's rankings for negative options bets over the past seven days. The stock is up 244% year-to-date but…
