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The biggest event of the week is shaping up fast. GM reports Q3 results tomorrow, followed by TSLA on Wednesday. ORTEX Alt Data shows German car registrations running 133% above the same quarter last year for GM and…
Pre-earnings volatility is driving unusual options activity across automotive and chip names this week. TSLA reports Q3 results on 21 October. The stock has fallen 21% year-to-date but a leading indicator tracked by…
Short sellers have pushed WHR to 32.2% of free float, a level reached just as analysts cut targets and Longbow Research drops its Buy rating. Three separate signals converged this week on the same deteriorating…
The week's most-watched print arrives Tuesday, when GM kicks off the automotive earnings season with Q3 results. TSLA follows Wednesday. German car registration data tracked by ORTEX Alt Data shows a leading indicator…
Office real estate landlord BXP received a fresh downgrade today, with consensus shifting to a more cautious stance. The average analyst target price sits at $74.10. Short interest in BXP runs at 7.5% of free float,…
Options markets are flashing a cautious signal on CCL even as short sellers aggressively pare positions. The divergence makes for an unusual setup: the lending market is at its loosest in months, yet put demand is…
Andrew MacDonald, President and Chief Operating Officer of UBER, filed a disclosure showing he bought $4.1 million worth of shares on September 4. The open-market purchase covered 54,325 shares at roughly $75.60 each.…
Short sellers added pressure to CHWY last week. Short interest hit 91.5% of free float as of October 16, up 4.3 percentage points in seven days. That is one of the sharpest weekly moves among mid- and large-cap US…
Short interest in HIFS has pushed to a fresh high with earnings due tomorrow, and the borrow market has tightened back to near-critical levels after a brief recovery earlier last week. SI now stands at 15.1% of the…
Two conflicting signals are converging on IRDM ahead of its October 23 earnings report. Short interest has more than doubled in a week. Options traders are tilting sharply bullish. Four days out from the print, the…
Dell Technologies has shed 23% over the past week, yet short sellers are not pressing the trade. They are leaving it. The divergence between a falling stock and collapsing short interest is the defining tension in DELL…
Stifel downgraded AOS to Hold this morning, slashing its price target to $59 from $70. The new target sits almost exactly where the stock closed on Friday at $59.22. That leaves virtually no upside in Stifel's own…
Six firms downgraded VRNS on 16 October. The wave has reshaped the consensus, yet options traders and short sellers are both pulling in the same bullish direction, with earnings due on 26 October. The scale of…
Why this matters: J.B. Hunt Transport Services has now printed its Q3 earnings, and the market's verdict is visible across three data streams at once. The put/call ratio has spiked to its highest in nearly four…
Tesla and GM dominate the week's agenda. GM reports Tuesday 20 October. Tesla follows on Wednesday. Both carry short interest below 2.5% of free float, suggesting bears are not betting against either name into the…
Options markets are keenly focused on two auto names this week. Tesla reports Q3 results on 21 October. GM follows the day before, on 20 October. Tesla carries a short interest of just 2.5% of free float. Its ORTEX…
EU airports handled 145.2 million passengers in March 2026. That is the largest March figure on record since tracking began in 2017. It beat the prior best of 142.4 million set in March 2019, a number that had stood…
GM reports tomorrow, Tuesday 20 October, followed by TSLA on Wednesday. Both are the headliners in a week dense with auto and financial sector results across the US and Europe. GM kicks things off first. Short interest…
Analysts reshuffled ratings across technology and financial stocks on Monday, with cybersecurity names winning the day and utilities taking hits. Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks, and Palantir Technologies all received…
