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NLY heads into its October 20 print with the stock down 15% over the past month to $18.23, trading well below the Street's average price target. The most striking feature of the setup is how aggressively analysts have…
América Móvil reports on October 20 with the stock having recovered sharply since the last preview, even as short sellers have quietly reversed course and started rebuilding positions. The price recovery is the…
This is the most important earnings week of the October season. Tesla reports Q3 results on 21 October. General Motors posts Q3 on 20 October. Netflix and Intuitive Surgical both report Tuesday after the close. Lam…
Negative options bets are piling into semiconductors ahead of a packed earnings week. NVDA and MU top the bearish options flow rankings by dollar value, with put positioning outweighing calls over the past seven days.…
Monday kicks off with Crown Holdings and Steel Dynamics reporting Q3 after the close today. Both give an early read on industrial demand. Tuesday brings the week's first major test. General Motors posts Q3 results…
EU inflation posted its highest September reading in two years in 2026. That headline from the ORTEX macro data layer sets the tone for a week when vehicle registers, electricity connections and airport counts are all…
Financials and transport stocks dominated analyst desks on Saturday, with a split verdict on US regional banks and a clear-cut trim for trucking. PNC drew opposite calls from two firms. Oppenheimer's Chris Kotowski…
The most striking insider disclosure filed in the period came from Japan. Fast Retailing's founder Tadashi Yanai filed a sale of $1.57 billion worth of shares in 9983 on 21 August, making it one of the largest single…
CHWY is the week's sharpest mover in short interest. Bears lifted their position by 25 percentage points in seven days. Short interest now sits at 91.3% of free float. That is a striking jump from 65.9% a week…
The story of this week's ETF flows is a sharp tilt toward tech and Asian markets. Equity funds pulled in a net $63.6B in a single week. That dwarfs every other asset class and sets a clear risk-on tone heading into a…
The week's biggest focus is earnings. General Motors reports Monday and Tesla reports Tuesday. Both carry elevated options activity heading into the prints. German car registration data tracked by ORTEX, which leads…
Options markets are pricing in a busy week. Tesla reports Q3 results on 21 October. General Motors follows on 20 October. Both carry elevated event risk, and alt-data signals are pointing in different directions for…
General Motors reports Monday, 20 October. Tesla follows Tuesday. Both are closely watched given the auto cycle and electric vehicle demand trends. German car registration data tracked by ORTEX Alt Data, which leads…
Analyst activity on Friday centred on regional banks, transports and a surprising U-turn on a credit data giant. Equifax took the sharpest hit. Oppenheimer analyst Rayna Kumar cut the stock to Hold from Buy, dropping…
An NVDA board member filed a cluster of sales worth more than $400 million in early September. Mark A. Stevens, an independent director at NVIDIA, reported selling shares across five separate transactions between 31…
Short sellers had a busy week. The biggest moves came in smaller names, but two mid-cap stocks with persistent bearish pressure also stood out. WOLF carries a short interest of 83.8% of free float. Zero shares are…
Nebius Group extends its slide to $188.41, down another 14% on the week, putting the stock 21% below the $232 to $244 range where the COO was selling two weeks ago. Options positioning has become the most pointed…
TeraWulf posted a sharp 9.4% gain on Thursday to close at $12.62, yet the week still ends in the red, down 7.5%, and a clutch of analyst target cuts published this week frames the bounce as a reprieve rather than a…
The dominant theme heading into the weekend is earnings. Tesla reports Tuesday 21 October. ORTEX German car registration data, a dataset that leads Tesla revenue by 43 days with a strong historical fit, is running 269%…
Semiconductor names are dominating options desks today. Micron and SanDisk led negative options bets among large-caps this week, as both stocks fell sharply alongside a broader Nasdaq 100 slide. The two names sit at…
