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United Rentals gained 3.3% over the past week to close at $1,068.98, while the median across its closest equipment-rental peers fell 2.4%. That gap is the tension entering today's Q3 print. The outperformance is…
Globe Life enters its Q3 earnings release with short sellers holding the largest position in at least a year, even as the rest of the positioning picture remains relaxed. Short interest has risen 9% over the past month…
Southwest Airlines reports third-quarter results today, Wednesday, October 22, with the stock outperforming almost every airline peer over the past week while short sellers continue to reduce their positions at the…
ROL carries the highest short interest in its peer group into Thursday's Q3 print, with 5.95% of the free float sold short. The closest US comparables, RSG, WM, and WCN, gained between 6% and 10% on the week. Rollins…
Reliance, Inc., the metals service center and distributor, reports Q3 earnings today after building the largest short position against its float in at least a year, even as the stock has gained 8% over the past month…
Pinnacle Financial Partners moved 5.8% higher over the past week, more than double the median gain of 2.6% across its closest regional banking peers. Comparable names including WTFC, SSB, ONB and RF each added between…
Packaging Corporation of America reports Q3 results today with the call/put ratio at its most bullish reading in a year, while insider selling from the summer and a divided analyst community frame a sharper debate than…
GGG reports its Q3 results today with short sellers deep in retreat and options markets having reversed a weeks-long defensive posture almost overnight. The options shift is the sharpest change in the setup. The…
NextEra Energy reports Q3 results on Thursday morning, with the options market flashing its most defensive reading of the past year even as the borrow market stays wide open and short positioning, though elevated,…
Short sellers are actively adding to positions in several US names this week. CoreWeave stands out as the most notable new mover. Its short interest climbed to 23.7% of free float by 20 October, up 2.6 percentage…
EastGroup Properties reported Q3 results today with short sellers at their most committed position in at least a year, yet the stock has moved decisively in the other direction. The share price closed Wednesday at…
Among its closest industrial peers, Dover Corporation carries one of the more elevated short positions in the group heading into its Q3 print today. Short interest has reached 3.8% of the free float, the highest…
Bears are adding to short positions in chip stocks even as the sector bounced Wednesday. NVDA, AMD and MU top the negative options flow table by volume over the past seven days. The backdrop makes the positioning hard…
Bearish options bets are heaviest in semiconductors this week. NVDA, AMD and MU top the negative options flow table by volume over the past seven days, even as chip stocks staged a partial rebound on Wednesday. CRWV…
Taiwan's export orders totalled $114.2bn in September 2026. That figure, from Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs, is up 62% on September last year. It is also the largest September reading since records began in…
More than 1,200 companies report this week. The volume spans every major region. Today brings a strong European opening. Roche ($377bn market cap) posts quarterly numbers this morning. Rentokil Initial and Ipsen also…
Brokers made a flurry of target price adjustments on Thursday, with cuts clustering in financials and logistics while utilities got modest bumps. Morgan Stanley trimmed SCHW to $132 from $141, keeping a Buy rating. The…
Uber Technologies' President and Chief Operating Officer Andrew Gordon MacDonald filed a disclosure showing he purchased $4.1 million worth of UBER shares on September 4, with the transaction reported on September 8.…
Short sellers have sharply increased bets against CHWY this month. Short interest as a percentage of free float stood at 89.2% on 20 October, up from around 66% at the start of the month. That is one of the largest…
The biggest money flow story this week is Asian tech. Taiwan ETFs pulled in $7.5B in just five days, with a flow imbalance of 96.7, meaning almost every dollar entering those funds was a buy. That follows ORTEX Alt…
