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The busiest day of the season is here. Amazon and Intel report Q3 results after the US close, alongside Bristol-Myers Squibb, Gilead Sciences, and Illumina. In Europe, ING Groep, Renault, and Volkswagen all…
Options bulls are piling hardest into semiconductors. Micron Technology topped both the positive bets and negative bets league tables over the past seven days, a sign of heavy two-way flow rather than clean directional…
Today brings a wall of earnings. Amazon and Intel both report Q3 results after the close, alongside Bristol-Myers Squibb, Gilead Sciences, and Illumina. In Europe, ING Groep and Renault deliver results this morning.…
Earnings season is driving a fresh wave of target price revisions, with data centre infrastructure and consumer platforms seeing the biggest upgrades. VRT collected the most bullish shift. Vertiv Holdings saw its…
The most recent insider filings available through ORTEX data, dated to early September 2026, show a pattern of large-scale selling across Asian and emerging market names, with few significant open-market purchases to…
Short sellers have been busy this week. Data as of 28 October shows several notable moves in both established and newly listed names. GRND saw the sharpest rise among larger stocks. Its short interest jumped to 20.5%…
SO, The Southern Company, is today's most striking data point. NRC data tracked by ORTEX shows reactor output sitting 10 standard deviations below its own history as of 27 October. That is the sharpest reading in the…
Options flow is flashing caution on US utilities this week. The sharpest signal comes from SO. ORTEX alt data shows Southern Company's reactor output fell 10 standard deviations below its own history as of 27 October,…
The week is already live with earnings. Renault posts its sales statement today. Austrian car registration data, which leads Renault revenue by 32 days, is running +6% on the same quarter last year. Dutch car data…
SO, The Southern Company, recorded reactor output 10.0 standard deviations below its own history on 27 October 2026. That is the sharpest deviation ORTEX has measured in the nuclear output dataset. The reading is not a…
Analyst activity on Wednesday skewed toward transport and utilities. Old Dominion Freight Line picked up an upgrade, with consensus buy recommendations climbing to 13 from 9. The average target price edged lower to…
The most striking US insider move in recent filings came from UBER. Andrew MacDonald, President and Chief Operating Officer, filed on September 8 that he bought $4.1 million worth of Uber shares on September 4. He paid…
Short sellers stepped up bets across several US names this week. The biggest mover was GRND. Grindr's SI % of free float jumped to 21.7%, up from 13.7% just seven days ago, an 8 percentage point rise. CBRS, Cerebras…
China ETFs pulled in $23.9B in the past week. That is the single biggest geographic inflow on the board. The buying is sharp, with a flow imbalance of 82.8, meaning outflows were a small fraction of gross activity. The…
Today is one of the heaviest single days of earnings season. Amazon and Intel both report Q3 results after the US close. Amazon is expected to show continued strength in cloud. Intel faces harder questions about its…
Earnings season is driving a stark split in the options market. Bulls and bears are staking opposite positions ahead of key prints, with the clearest divergence in insurance and homebuilding. The Hanover Insurance…
Today brings one of the week's most watched prints. Amazon.com and Intel both release Q3 results after the close. Amazon is expected to show continued cloud growth. Intel faces tougher questions about its turnaround…
Activist investor Longview has taken a stake in GD, casting a spotlight on the defence giant ahead of its Q3 earnings print today. News this morning notes analysts have been cutting price targets on General Dynamics…
The clearest theme in today's analyst activity is power. VST and NRG both had their target prices cut by CIBC. Vistra's target fell to $181 from $201. NRG's dropped to $159 from $173. Both retain buy ratings, but the…
The most striking insider activity in the latest filings centres on a cluster of Hong Kong-listed stocks, with trades reported on 8 September 2026. Li Ning Company bought back aggressively through its controlling…
