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Europe's car giants report mid-week. Porsche AG kicks off today, Tuesday, with its quarterly numbers. Mercedes-Benz follows Wednesday. Volkswagen and Renault both report Thursday. ORTEX alt data adds context for the…
India's broadband network crossed 1.11 billion subscribers in September 2026, per TRAI data. That figure capped six consecutive months of growth in total broadband connections. Fixed wired broadband also extended its…
Wall Street moved price targets on several major names today, with technology stocks drawing the most attention. Dell Technologies saw analysts lift the consensus target to $595. That is up from $593 and keeps all 29…
A major shareholder made one of the boldest conviction buys in recent months. Kenneth Bryan Dart filed in late August 2026 disclosing two open-market purchases in EVO (Evolution AB). The trades, on 21 and 24 July,…
Short sellers stepped up bets across several US names last week. Data from ORTEX dated 26 October shows the biggest moves coming in biotech, AI infrastructure and electric vehicles. Liquidia Corporation saw the…
China ETFs took in a net $19.9B in the past week. That is the single biggest geographic flow in the data, with a flow imbalance score of 81 out of 100. Over three months the number is $36.3B, so the buying has been…
Coca-Cola reported this morning and management guided for organic revenue growth of at least 5% in FY26. The company expects to generate $13B in free cash flow this year. Executives flagged slight destocking in Q4,…
Negative options bets are clustering in semiconductors this week. Micron leads the large-cap put flow, with NVIDIA and Advanced Micro Devices also drawing heavy bearish order volume over the past seven days. The three…
Today brings a flood of S&P 500 results. Coca-Cola reports this morning alongside UPS, Boeing, PayPal and Freeport-McMoRan. HCA Healthcare and Royal Caribbean also post numbers before the open. Tuesday adds Alphabet,…
Wall Street lifted targets on several high-profile names today. Dell Technologies saw its consensus target rise to $595 from $593. Analysts remain bullish, with 19 buy ratings and no sells. Palantir Technologies also…
Insider activity across US markets over the past month shows a familiar split: heavy selling in technology and growth names sits alongside concentrated buying in beaten-down sectors. Neither the SEC EDGAR Form 4 tables…
Short sellers are on the move. The biggest one-week jump among mid- and large-cap US stocks belongs to LQDA, Liquidia Corporation. Its SI % FF hit 26.7% as of 26 October, up 8 percentage points in seven days. GRND,…
The most concentrated earnings run of the season is underway. MSFT and GOOGL both report after Tuesday's close. AMZN and INTC follow on Wednesday. Together, the four names carry more than $13 trillion in combined…
Earnings-week options activity is at its most concentrated in months. Meta Platforms, Amazon, Microsoft, and Alphabet all report this week. Together they carry trillions in market cap and some of the heaviest options…
The busiest earnings stretch of the season runs from today through Thursday. Four mega-cap names alone account for more than $13 trillion in combined market value. MSFT fires the starting gun after Tuesday's close,…
The most striking reading in the ORTEX alternative data layer this week comes from the nuclear output dataset. TLN Talen Energy Corporation's reactor output fell 10.0 standard deviations below its own history as of 9…
Analysts trimmed targets across several names this week, with Fair Isaac Corporation drawing the most pointed action. The consensus rating on FICO was downgraded, with the average target price falling from $1,007 to…
The most striking open-market purchase in the latest filings came from UBER. Andrew Gordon MacDonald, President and COO, filed on 8 September to disclose a buy of 54,325 shares at $75.65 apiece, a transaction worth…
Short sellers have been busy this week. CoreWeave saw the sharpest rise among large-cap names. Its SI % FF climbed 4.5 percentage points over seven days to 25.7%. The AI infrastructure stock has drawn sceptics since…
China ETFs pulled in a net $19.9B in the past week, the single largest geographic inflow across the entire fund flow universe. That is four times larger than the $4.9B that flowed into Japan over the same period. Over…
