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Downgrades Hit Insurers and Media

Analysts turned bearish on two names this week. Prudential Financial and Fox Corporation both suffered formal downgrades, standing out in a session dominated by target price tweaks. Prudential was cut from Hold to Sell…

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Insiders Cash Out: Sellers Dominate This Week

Insider selling dominated US filing activity this week, with three names accounting for hundreds of millions in disclosed transactions. DELL tops the list. Silver Lake Group, a board-level 10% shareholder, has filed…

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Earnings Season, Bears, and a Strait Running Dry

Markets are entering a critical stretch. Alphabet reports Q2 results on Wednesday, July 22. It is the most-watched print of the week at a $2 trillion market cap. Intel follows Thursday, heading into results with its…

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Big Tech Earnings Dominate This Week

Alphabet headlines a packed earnings week. The Google parent reports Q2 2026 results on Wednesday, July 22, after market close. With a $2 trillion market cap, it is the most-watched print of the week. Intel follows on…

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Financials Split: Banks Up, Insurers Down

Wall Street analysts are pulling in opposite directions on financial stocks this week. The divergence is sharp and worth watching. MS was upgraded by consensus analysts. Its average target price moved up to $231.86…

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VC Backer Dumps $105M in ServiceTitan

Bessemer Venture Partners has filed over $105 million in sales of TTAN stock this month. The VC firm offloaded 1.4 million shares across 13 transactions between June 26 and July 15. Individual daily sales ranged from…

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Bears Circle Hertz, SpaceX and Lucid

Short sellers are busy this week. HTZ leads the heavily-shorted list with 70% of free float sold short. That rose nearly 10 percentage points in seven days. Options are shifting toward calls, hinting at squeeze…

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ABNB Founders Sell $37M as Earnings Loom

Airbnb enters its August 4 earnings window with founder selling accelerating, the stock slipping back from recent highs, and the Street holding a cautious consensus despite a handful of bullish upgrades. The insider…

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Apple's Borrow Costs Double as Earnings Loom

AAPL heads into its July 30 earnings print with a split Street, a strong monthly rally, and a borrow market that has quietly become the most expensive it has been all year. The borrowing cost story is the sharpest data…

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LCID Borrow Costs Explode as Stock Surges 33%

Lucid Group has whipsawed in the space of four days — up 33% on the week to $7.36 — while the borrow market simultaneously went from stressed to near-explosive, creating one of the more charged short-squeeze setups in…

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HOOD Drops 11% in a Week—Earnings Ten Days Out

Robinhood Markets has given back nearly all of last week's gains, falling 11% to $99.96, just as the July 29 earnings date comes into sharp focus. The price action is the sharpest shift since previous notes flagged…

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AGI Trades at Extreme Discount as Majority Holder Keeps Buying

Alliance Global Group enters the week with a striking valuation gap at its centre — a Philippine conglomerate trading at less than four times earnings and just 0.21 times book, yet with its own majority shareholder…

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McDonald's Tightens Into Earnings With Bulls Holding the Line

McDonald's enters the final stretch before its August 3 earnings report with the stock still under pressure — down another 2% this week — but with the Street's constructive stance largely intact despite a steady drip…

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Nolan, Earnings, and Bears: Sunday Snapshot

Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey opened to a massive $264.1 million globally this weekend. That's one of the biggest debuts in years. IMAX is a direct winner — and the company reports earnings on Wednesday. The film's…

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Bears Load Up Ahead of Earnings Week

Earnings season is driving a clear split in options positioning. Short sellers and put buyers are focused on a small cluster of high-risk names while leaving mega-caps largely alone. Wolfspeed stands out most. Short…

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Big Names Line Up This Week

GOOGL headlines a packed earnings week. Alphabet reports Q2 2026 results on Tuesday, July 22 after the close. It is one of the most-watched prints of the season. Also on Tuesday, RJF Raymond James Financial drops Q3…

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