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NextDecade Gets a New CFO as Shorts Quietly Retreat

NextDecade Corporation has a fresh headline and a shifting short base heading into June — a combination that gives the stock an interesting texture even as price action stays muted. The biggest news dropped after the…

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Baker Hughes Shorts Build While the Street Holds Firm

Baker Hughes enters the first week of June with short sellers adding exposure at the fastest clip in months — even as most of the analyst community keeps its bullish stance intact. Short interest has climbed sharply.…

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BTU Shorts Rebuild as Coal Stock Catches a Bid

Peabody Energy is producing one of the more charged setups in the energy space — the stock has surged 14% in a week while short sellers are simultaneously adding to their positions at a meaningful pace. Short interest…

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YUMC: Shorts Exit as Options Hedge Quietly Builds

Yum China Holdings heads into the first week of June with shorts in full retreat and options traders just beginning to hedge — two signals pulling in opposite directions against a stock down 11% over the past…

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QSR Shorts Retreat After Earnings, But Stock Keeps Falling

Restaurant Brands International delivered its Q1 results on June 3, and the short sellers who had been building positions ahead of the print appear to have bailed — yet the stock has continued to slide anyway. The…

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AMC surges 30% in a week — but shorts aren't running yet

AMC Entertainment has just posted a 30% weekly gain to $2.07, its sharpest weekly move in months. Yet short interest barely flinched. That tension — a meme-stock-sized price pop with almost no short covering — is the…

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SunCoke's 38% Rally Draws Shorts Back In

SunCoke Energy has become one of the steel sector's more intriguing setups: a stock that has surged 38% in a single month is now attracting a measurably larger short position, even as the borrow market remains wide…

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VOO's Put/Call Ratio Hits a New 52-Week High

VOO gains ground on price while its options market reaches its most defensive reading of the past year — a tension that defines the week's setup. The options story is the lead, and it has now moved beyond the reversal…

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Pediatrix Shorts Creep Higher Before August Print

Pediatrix Medical Group heads into the summer with shorts quietly adding pressure and options traders showing more caution than they have in months — a modest but consistent tightening of the bearish screws ahead of…

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IPI shorts retreat as bears struggle to maintain their thesis

Intrepid Potash enters June with short sellers in full retreat — a six-week unwind that has cut bearish positioning nearly in half even as the stock itself gives back some of its strong year-to-date gains. Short…

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ALNY Shorts Rebuild as the Street Eyes a Wide Target Gap

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals enters June with a fresh tension: short sellers are quietly rebuilding positions in a stock the analyst consensus still rates a Buy — but where the share price sits $160 below the average Street…

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EWW Borrow Market Tightens as Shorts Dig In

EWW has added another week of gains while the short-selling pressure against it has only deepened — a divergence that is now sharper than at any point in the past month. Short interest has continued its climb since the…

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EWU shorts surge fourfold as UK macro worries mount

EWU, the iShares MSCI United Kingdom ETF, has become one of the more aggressively repositioned country funds in recent weeks. Short interest has more than quadrupled in a month. The ORTEX short score has nearly doubled…

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EWC shorts rebuild sharply as Canada ETF grinds higher

EWC has entered a quietly contradictory patch: the iShares MSCI Canada ETF gained just over 1.3% on the week to close at $59.46, yet short interest jumped 33% in the same period — a meaningful divergence between price…

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UBS Lifts Target as URI Rebounds — Shorts Quietly Retreat

United Rentals heads into the week with a notable tailwind: a fresh analyst upgrade in target price from UBS arriving just as short sellers continue a six-week unwind that has pushed the stock to near its 52-week…

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