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EchoStar's Short Squeeze Unwinds as Earnings Loom

EchoStar enters its August 7 earnings window carrying a genuinely interesting contradiction: short interest has collapsed by nearly a third in six weeks, yet nearly one in five free-float shares remains sold short —…

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TNK Heads Into Earnings with Options Traders Turning Cautious

Teekay Tankers enters its July 29 earnings report trading at $75.56 — up 5% on the day and 4.6% on the week — with options positioning flashing the most defensive signal in months. The sharpest story this week is in…

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FOR Slides 11% as Post-Earnings Selling Overtakes Buyers

Forestar Group enters the back half of July under meaningful pressure, with the stock down nearly 11% on the week to $27.02 after reporting quarterly results on July 21 — a selloff that stands in stark contrast to the…

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MSCI Falls 10% on Earnings Day as Analysts Trim Targets

MSCI reported earnings on July 21 and the market's verdict was swift: the stock dropped 10% in a single session, erasing all of the optimism that had built through a week of analyst target raises ahead of the…

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SPYG Options Traders Turn Defensive as Growth ETF Slips

SPYG has drifted about 1.1% lower on the week to $118.05, but the more telling signal comes from the options market, where defensive positioning has climbed sharply toward a year-high. Options traders have turned…

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QQQ Bounces Hard — But Shorts Aren't Convinced Yet

QQQ clawed back 1.9% on Tuesday to close at $708.97, yet the week as a whole remains down 1.5% — and the short interest picture has shifted in a way that complicates the recovery narrative. The most interesting tension…

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KTOS Insiders Sell Into Rally as Earnings Count Down

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions bounced 5% on Tuesday but is still down 4% on the week and 11% over the past month — and the people closest to the company used that bounce to sell. The insider activity this week is…

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BNY Mellon's Post-Earnings Analyst Upgrade Wave

BNY closed the week at $158.89 — up nearly 11% over the past month — with a wave of post-earnings target increases narrowing the gap to consensus but leaving a few bulls still unsatisfied with how the stock trades…

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IBKR Analysts Chase Targets After Strong Print

Interactive Brokers Group heads into the post-earnings week with analysts still lifting targets and the stock digesting a strong Q2 beat — the question now is whether the Street's revised numbers have finally caught up…

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UNG Bears Retreat Again as Availability Swings Back

UNG has done another about-face — the bear rebuild flagged in last week's note has largely unwound, with short interest dropping sharply and the lending market loosening to its most comfortable level in weeks. The…

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SMCI: Analysts Lift Targets as Shorts Hold Firm

Super Micro Computer is caught between a Street that turned more constructive this morning and a short base that has barely budged despite the worst monthly price performance in the group. The analyst moves are the…

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Deutsche Bank Heads Into Q2 Results With Shorts Dormant

Deutsche Bank reports Q2 earnings on July 29, and the most striking feature of this week's setup is not what bears are doing — it's what they aren't doing. Short interest is negligible by any meaningful measure. Borrow…

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SAP Borrow Market Flips Loose as Q2 Earnings Land

SAP SE heads into its July 23 Q2 earnings print with the lending market doing something notable: the extreme tightness flagged in Sunday's preview has reversed sharply, leaving a very different setup than the one that…

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Western Union Heads Into Earnings With Bears Trimming Targets

WU enters Thursday's Q2 print — due July 24 — with a sharp 19% one-month rally behind it, a wall of bearish analyst coverage ahead, and options traders the most bullish they've been all year. The options signal is the…

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