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Earnings, Bears, and Bank Bulls — July 19

Earnings season takes centre stage this week. GOOGL and IBM report Tuesday. INTC and TMUS follow Wednesday. Markets are bracing for signals on AI spending, foundry progress, and subscriber trends. Options data shows…

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Earnings Week Fuels Options Bets on Bulls and Bears

Options markets are pricing in a big week. GOOGL reports alongside a wave of financials, banks, and industrials. Traders are loading up on both sides. UNH stands out. The healthcare giant carries just 2% SI % FF. Yet…

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Big Tech, Banks Dominate Week Ahead

GOOGL kicks off a pivotal week on Tuesday. Alphabet reports Q2 2026 results after the close. Investors want clarity on AI spending and search revenue trends. IBM also reports Tuesday. The legacy tech giant has been…

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Financials Lead Upgrades, Fox Falls Out of Favour

Wall Street shifted bullish on financials this week. Morgan Stanley received an upgrade. The consensus moved from Hold to Buy territory. Its average analyst target price now stands at $231.86. State Street also drew…

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Insiders Cash Out While One Bets Big

A wave of insider selling dominated recent filings, but one battered avocado stock is attracting serious buying interest. ASTS founder and CEO Abel Avellan filed on June 23, disclosing he sold 2.5 million shares worth…

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Bears Load Up on Hertz While SpaceX Shorts Surge

Short sellers dramatically increased bets against HTZ this week. Hertz short interest hit 70.1% of free float as of July 16, up from 60.3% just seven days earlier — a near 10-percentage-point jump. Shares available to…

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Big Week: Alphabet, Intel, Charter Due

Q2 earnings season hits full stride this week. Three closely watched names report results, and short sellers are paying close attention to at least one of them. Tomorrow — Tuesday, July 22 GOOGL reports Q2 after the…

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IOVA Shorts Retreat as Stock Posts 18% Weekly Gain

Iovance Biotherapeutics enters the week of July 18 carrying one of the more interesting tensions in small-cap biotech: a stock up 31% in a month, yet still carrying 26% of its free float sold short — and shorts have…

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Banks Lead the Bulls as Fox Takes a Hit

Financials dominated analyst activity on Friday. Morgan Stanley picked up an upgrade, with the consensus average target rising to $231.85 from $226.48. The $339 billion bank has just 1.5% of its free float shorted — a…

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Cameco's 34% Slide Meets a July 31 Reality Check

CCJ enters its most important earnings print in months as a stock that has lost a third of its value since January — the question now is whether the fundamentals can arrest a slide that the lending market says shorts…

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WEBTOON Shorts Ease but Borrow Market Stays Tight

WBTN enters the week of July 18 under visible pressure — down 10% over the past five trading days and 16% over the past month — yet the short-selling community is quietly unwinding, even as the borrow market tells a…

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VC Backer Dumps $112M in ServiceTitan Shares

A pattern of sustained insider selling has emerged at TTAN. Bessemer Venture Partners — a 10% owner with a board seat — has now filed to sell over $112 million worth of shares across multiple transactions this month.…

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SPGI Heads Into Earnings With Bulls in Charge

S&P Global enters its July 28 earnings release on the front foot — up 5% on the week and 9% over the past month — yet with a weakening technical picture beneath the surface that gives the setup an interesting edge. The…

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ALKS Heads Into July 27 Earnings With a Divided Street

Alkermes trades at $52.72 heading into its July 27 print, with short sellers retreating and analysts sharply split — the most interesting tension this week is not positioning but the widening gap between bullish…

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SQQQ Borrow Tightens Further as Call Skew Deepens

SQQQ enters the weekend with two forces pulling in opposite directions: the borrow market has become one of the tightest it has been all year, yet options traders are leaning bullish on the ETF — itself a bet on Nasdaq…

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SMR Shorts Build Into Earnings — Borrow Pool Stays Deep

SMR heads into its August earnings with a sharp but isolated short-interest build this week, set against a stock that just posted its best weekly gain in months. The tension is straightforward. SMR rallied 14.5% over…

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TLT Bears Hold Ground After the Rebuild

TLT is no longer retreating — the short rebuild flagged in this week's earlier note has consolidated, and the question now is whether bears add further or pause after snapping back 9.4% in a single week. The…

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