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Today is the Russell 2000 rank cut-off for the December review. Ninety-seven names hang in the balance, with 97 companies fighting to hold or gain index positions at the close. ORTEX Index Rebalance Radar shows Health…
SO has produced the sharpest single-company signal in ORTEX's current alt-data sweep. Its nuclear reactor output fell 10.0 standard deviations below its own history on 28 October, according to Nuclear Regulatory…
Wells Fargo dominated today's analyst activity with calls across industrials, tech, and medtech. LII took the sharpest hit. The consensus was downgraded and Wells Fargo's Stephen Tusa slashed his target to $355 from…
The most striking discretionary purchase in the dataset comes from UBER. Andrew Gordon MacDonald, President and COO, filed on 8 September disclosing a $4.1M open-market purchase made on 4 September. That is a…
Short sellers made aggressive moves over the five days to 28 October. Several micro-cap stocks saw their short interest more than double. The biggest jump belonged to FRGT, where SI % of free float leapt from 117% to…
China ETFs pulled in $17.9B in the past week. That is the single biggest geographic inflow of any region, and it dwarfs every other destination. Japan came in second at $5.7B. The contrast with the three-month picture…
Coinbase delivered mixed Q3 results but buried a standout figure: prediction markets hit $200 million in annualised revenue. That number grabbed attention across crypto desks. CareDx went further, lifting its full-year…
Amazon dominated options desks Thursday after reporting AWS revenue growth above 39% year on year, with a run rate of $184 billion. The print reignited call buying across the mega-cap tech complex. Amazon has active…
Today brings a heavy slate of confirmed earnings. Anheuser-Busch InBev ($160B market cap) reports alongside ING Groep ($93B) and adidas. Columbia Sportswear also posts today. Auto names dominate the European calendar.…
Analyst pressure hit LII hard on Wednesday. Wells Fargo's Stephen Tusa cut his target on Lennox International from $424 to $355, keeping a Hold rating. The broader analyst consensus also moved lower, with the average…
Filings reported on 1 to 3 September show Bill Gates accumulated more than $220 million worth of RSG shares across a cluster of open-market purchases. Gates, listed as a main shareholder, bought at prices between $220…
Short interest jumped sharply in several mid-cap names in the five days to 28 October, with bears picking new targets across pharma, energy, and social media. LQDA saw the biggest move among names with meaningful…
Howmet Aerospace is the standout US mover today. The company beat earnings estimates, raised guidance, and announced a buyback. The stock rose on the news. Microsoft got fresh analyst support after its Q1 results, with…
Chip stocks and autos dominate the heaviest negative options bets of the past week, according to ORTEX screening data. Micron Technology and Meta Platforms top the list of names absorbing the largest bearish options…
Today brings a wave of major results. BUD Anheuser-Busch InBev reports with a $160B market cap on the line. ING Groep also posts today, alongside COLM Columbia Sportswear in the US. In Europe, Adidas delivers its…
SO Southern Company's reactor output fell 10.0 standard deviations below its own history as of 28 October. The reading, drawn from NRC reactor status data, is an extreme outlier by any measure. A deviation of that size…
Wells Fargo dominated analyst activity on Thursday, cutting price targets on at least four stocks in a single session. The moves hit HVAC maker LII, elevator group OTIS, medtech giant BSX, and wealth manager RJF. The…
The freshest filing data available from ORTEX's vendor insider table runs to 8 September 2026, leaving a roughly seven-week gap to today. US EDGAR Form 4 tables were not accessible in this environment. The trades below…
Short sellers sharpened their bets across several names this week. Data from ORTEX as of 28 October shows the clearest moves came in mid-cap growth stocks, not the usual micro-cap suspects. WOLF remains one of the…
China ETFs pulled in $23.9B in a single week. That is the dominant story in fund flows right now. The buying pressure score hit 82.8 out of 100, meaning selling was almost absent. Over three months, China had attracted…
