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New Pacific Metals is trading against the grain this week, adding nearly 1% while most of its closest peers sold off sharply, a divergence that makes the stock's ownership structure and upcoming earnings date the more…
Piper Sandler downgraded BRZE to Neutral on Tuesday, yet raised its price target to $47.50 from $30, implying 58% upside from Monday's close of $30.04. The rating cut after a 23% one-month rally is the kind of move…
Short interest in OPK jumped 11.8% last week to 5.1% of free float, its highest level in at least a year. That weekly move is 3.1 standard deviations above the company's typical weekly change, making it one of the…
Three distinct signals on TEVA are pointing the same direction. Short positions are shrinking fast, options traders are leaning bullish, and retail attention just surged to its highest level in months. Short interest…
Short interest in LEU has reached 34.1% of free float, the highest level in at least a year, while the lending market has locked up entirely. Availability has dropped to 0%, meaning every share in the borrowable pool…
The biggest story this week is auto earnings. GM reports today, with German car registration data tracked by ORTEX running 133% above the same quarter last year. That is a strong leading signal. Tesla follows tomorrow…
Options traders are loading up on positions ahead of a two-day auto earnings sprint. GM reports today. Tesla follows on Tuesday. Both stocks carry elevated implied volatility typical of earnings window plays. TSLA has…
Today brings a heavy wave of S&P 500 earnings. General Motors reports this morning, with German car registration data tracked by ORTEX Alt Data running 133% above last year's same quarter, a strong leading signal for…
Taiwan's export orders hit USD 95.7 billion in September 2026. That is a 74% jump on the same month last year, according to the Taiwan Ministry of Economic Affairs. Orders in New Taiwan dollars rose 69% over the same…
BlackRock received an upgrade from analysts today, pushing the consensus target to $1,351. The world's largest asset manager has benefited from record inflows. It is now rated Buy by 17 analysts, with just one Hold and…
The most striking discretionary buy in recent filings came from inside UBER. Andrew MacDonald, the company's President and COO, filed in early September disclosing open-market purchases totalling $5.3 million at around…
Short sellers added to positions in CoreWeave over the past week. SI % of FF climbed to 22.2%, up 3.1 percentage points in seven days. The AI cloud stock carries a $28B market cap and remains one of the most-shorted…
The biggest story in ETF flows this week is Taiwan. It pulled in $6.8B over the past seven days, a flow_imbalance reading of 97, meaning almost every dollar coming in stayed in. Over three months, Taiwan has attracted…
Six days before Varonis reports, VRNS is up 5% over the past week while its closest peers fell a median 2.7%. The positioning data and the analyst community are pointing in opposite directions, and that gap narrows on…
Options traders are rotating out of puts on AMGN at the sharpest pace in months. The put-call ratio fell to 0.96 on Monday, 2.45 standard deviations below its 20-day mean of 1.07, the most bullish reading in the recent…
Three distinct positioning signals are moving in the same direction on TFC on earnings day, as Q3 results landed this morning and the stock sits at $46.32, down 1.6% on the session. The most concrete data point ahead…
Baird cut HTLD to Neutral from Outperform on Tuesday, slashing its price target to $12 from $16. The downgrade lands as the stock trades at $10.53, down 11% this month. Yet the options market is telling a sharply…
SmartFinancial, Inc. is reporting Q3 results today. Three distinct data streams have moved in the same direction at once, each flagging defensiveness or short-side pressure. The put/call ratio closed at 5.33 on October…
GE Vernova's put-call ratio hit 1.46 on October 19, 2.3 standard deviations above its 20-day mean. The stock has dropped 8.9% over the past week to $908, a move almost exactly in line with the median for its closest…
Options traders are betting on an upside surprise at CTAS earnings on October 27. The put-call ratio dropped to 0.787 on October 19, 2.3 standard deviations below its 20-day mean of 0.877, its most bullish reading in…
