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Three of the most closely watched prints of the quarter land in the next five sessions. GM reports Tuesday and TSLA follows Wednesday. Both arrive against a backdrop of rising US inflation. Core CPI hit 339.287 in…
Analyst target prices fell broadly on Thursday, with banks and utilities bearing the brunt as US core CPI hit its highest reading since the series began in 1997. SCHW saw its consensus target trimmed to $120.86 from…
The most notable discretionary insider purchase in the latest filings came from UBER. Andrew Gordon MacDonald, President and COO, filed on 8 September that he bought 54,325 shares at $75.65 each. The total value was…
Short sellers piled into CHWY this week. Chewy's short interest as a percentage of free float hit 92.2%, up from 66.7% just seven days ago. That 25.6 percentage point jump is one of the sharpest moves among larger US…
The week's dominant story is a sharp rotation into US equities and technology ETFs. Information Technology pulled in $5.4B net this week alone. That is the biggest single-sector inflow by a wide margin. It comes as US…
Three signals on GLOBALFOUNDRIES converged on October 15 and 16. Each one individually tells a partial story. Together, they point to a market positioning itself for a significant move into the November 3 earnings…
MMED reports earnings this morning with options traders at their most bullish in 52 weeks, while the borrow market sits at or near its tightest levels on record for the stock. The two crowds have not been further apart…
Options traders are piling into TDY puts at a rate not seen in months. The put/call ratio hit 0.794 on Wednesday, 4.3 standard deviations above its 20-day mean of 0.356. That is the clearest single signal in the…
Two of the biggest earnings prints of the season land this week. General Motors reports Tuesday and Tesla follows Wednesday. Both are walking into a tough macro backdrop. US core CPI hit 339.287 in September, its…
Options traders are circling two big auto earnings prints this week. Tesla reports on 21 October and General Motors on 20 October. The market is pricing a live macro backdrop into both. US core CPI hit 339.287 in…
General Motors kicks off the week's biggest earnings on Tuesday, 20 October. German car registration data tracked by ORTEX runs 133% above the same quarter last year. That dataset has led GM revenue by 15 days with a…
MMED enters today's earnings event with a lending market that has barely loosened since last week's note, but with options traders now the most bullishly positioned they have been all year. The clearest shift since…
Cohen & Steers reports today with the data looking materially different from its last preview: the extreme defensive options positioning that defined the setup on October 12 has partially reversed, and the stock has…
Simpson Manufacturing heads into its October 19 earnings release with short sellers notably more active than they were a month ago, even as the stock holds near recent highs. The most striking pre-earnings signal is…
A wave of target price cuts hit financials and utilities Friday. The moves follow strong gains in both sectors and come as US inflation data complicates the rate outlook. SCHW saw its consensus target trimmed to…
Simmons First National reports Q3 earnings this morning with the stock at $22.26, down 4% over the past month but up fractionally yesterday, as investors brace for the numbers that will settle a genuine argument on…
Independent Bank Corp. reaches its Q3 earnings release today having seen a notable shift in positioning since the October 12 preview: short sellers have continued to retreat even as options traders have grown…
Prologis delivers its Q3 results today with the stock down sharply from where it stood when analysts last updated their targets, yet short sellers are not pressing their advantage. The clearest signal in the lending…
PAC reports third-quarter results on October 19 against a backdrop where the ownership register is anything but typical and short sellers have been steadily adding exposure. The most distinctive feature of PAC right…
The most striking pattern in the latest insider filings, dated 8 September 2026, is JPMorgan Chase cutting positions across multiple Hong Kong-listed names. The bank filed sales of $84.9M in Kingdee International…
