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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…
Hertz Global Holdings enters its November 5 earnings date with the lending market effectively closed, borrow costs at a record, and 40% of the float still committed to a short position that is becoming more expensive…
IQ crossed an uncomfortable threshold this week. The stock closed at $0.9212 on Tuesday, down 7.1% on the week and nearly 9% over the past month, pushing below the $1 mark and raising the stakes ahead of a Q3 earnings…
CVH heads into its November 6 results in a quiet downtrend, with almost no fresh institutional or analyst signal to complicate the picture. The price action is telling a consistent, if undramatic, story. The stock…
BYMA has now shed nearly a fifth of its value since June, and with the November 5 Q3 earnings call two weeks out, nothing in this week's data suggests the selling has run its course. The price action remains the…
Corvus Pharmaceuticals heads into its November 3 earnings report with options traders raising a sharp defensive flag, even as the stock bounces back from a bruising month. The clearest signal this week is in the…
SVI enters its October 22 results with a peculiar tension: short interest is minimal, but the cost to borrow has more than doubled in a month, and a strong analyst consensus sits against a stock that has only just…
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China slipped 1.9% over the past week to HK$7.49, a shade worse than the median decline of 1.2% across its closest Hong Kong-listed peers, with results due in eight days sharpening…
Among GME's closest correlated peers, the short interest setup looks crowded by comparison. MNRO gained 2.6% on the week and BRLT added 4.5%, while GameStop shed 2.8%, the weakest performer in the group. Short interest…
MCB Bank Limited reports third-quarter results on 22 October, and the timing matters: the stock enters the announcement with its price-to-earnings multiple at the low end of its recent range and the peer group sending…
VMI has just printed Q3 results with its positioning story largely unchanged from the previews filed Tuesday and Wednesday, but the post-earnings context now shifts the question from "what happens at the print" to…
Interparfums heads into its November 3 earnings release with short sellers trimming positions but options traders abruptly shifting toward defensive territory, a divergence worth watching in a stock that has…
ChronoScale Holdings heads into its November 6 earnings with a stock down 23% in a month, a borrow market that is still expensive despite easing, and an ORTEX short score deep in bearish territory. The most striking…
