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AT&T has dropped nearly 8% over the past week to $22.71, making it the worst performer among its closest peers, and the short-side pressure that was quietly building a week ago has since picked up pace. Short interest…
BIDU heads into the back half of June with a sharp and sudden rebuild in short interest running directly against a stock that has lost 11% in the past week. The dominant story this week is the pace of short…
ChipMOS TECHNOLOGIES INC. enters the week with an unusual split: a 10% single-day price surge on Tuesday sitting alongside a quietly tightening borrow market and a short score that has drifted lower for two weeks…
PSI, the Invesco Semiconductors ETF, enters the week with an unusual split: short sellers are retreating rapidly even as the fund itself loses ground. The most striking development in the lending market is the…
IGPT, the Invesco AI and Next Gen Software ETF, enters mid-June with a sharp weekly drawdown colliding against an equally sharp rebuild in short positions — a rare combination for a fund that has historically attracted…
Hercules Capital is heading into its June 18 earnings release with the borrow story shifting meaningfully since last week's note — shorts have continued to retreat, and crucially, the cost of maintaining those…
DexCom enters the week after a 29% one-month rally with an unusual split: analysts are lifting targets in its wake, yet options traders just registered their most defensive positioning of the year — a tension worth…
IAU — the iShares Gold Trust — has shed 5.2% in a week and nearly 10% in a month, yet the options market is running its most call-heavy configuration in at least a year. The options story is the clearest tension in…
PETR4 heads into the week with a striking divergence: the stock has shed nearly 10% over the past month while the borrow market has simultaneously swung to its most relaxed reading of the year. The lending story is the…
EQNR enters its June 16 earnings release with short sellers pulling back and the borrow market loosening materially — a notable shift from the more pressured positioning seen just a month ago. The clearest story in the…
NICE reported Q1 results on June 9 against a backdrop where shorts had already exited — and the stock fell anyway. The lending market tells the cleaner story here. As detailed in the June 9 earnings preview,…
BYD Company Limited heads into a difficult June with its stock down nearly 9% on the week — yet short sellers are quietly covering rather than pressing the bet. The most striking feature of this week's data is the…
ASML has added another 3.2% this week to close at €1,508.40, and the arithmetic problem that defined the last two notes has not resolved — it has deepened. The valuation story is the standout this week. The trailing…
2330 enters the new week with its domestic borrow market holding at elevated levels — and the question now is whether the jump in borrowing costs that was still accelerating on June 8 has found a ceiling, or is simply…
SoftBank Group enters the week of its upcoming earnings with a jarring split between price action and short-side positioning — an 18% weekly drop that bears have barely leaned into. The price collapse is the headline.…
United Microelectronics Corporation (2303) enters the week with a striking divergence: the stock fell nearly 10% across the past five trading days, yet the lending market is telling a very different story — shorts are…
Schneider Electric enters the week nursing an 8.3% loss — the sharpest weekly drawdown among its closest European peers — yet the lending market is sending an almost comically relaxed signal about how much conviction…
VIVT3 is caught between a defensive dividend profile and a stock that has lost 14% over the past month, arriving at Wednesday's close of BRL 32.95 with the next earnings catalyst still seven weeks away. The lending…
NOKIA has now shed 17% in five sessions to close at €11.97, extending the reversal that began last week and wiping out the bulk of a strong month-long run. The story this week is straightforward: a stock that had been…
Las Vegas Sands has an unusual setup heading into its July 22 earnings: short interest has surged nearly 50% over the past month, yet the lending market is so loose that the building pressure looks more like deliberate…
