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Options sentiment is skewing bearish this week as traders position for a heavy earnings calendar. Tesla, General Motors, and Netflix all report within days. Put buyers are active ahead of each print. CRWV is the…
SCHW kicked off earnings season today. Charles Schwab reported Q3 2026 results this morning, setting the tone for a packed week. Tuesday brings TFC Truist Financial. The regional bank reports Q3 as investors watch net…
Latvia's nearly-new car market delivered a record September. According to the ORTEX Latvia car registrations dataset (sourced from Latvian vehicle registers), 72 nearly-new vehicles were registered in September 2026.…
Analysts reshuffled ratings across financials and industrials on Thursday, with two calls standing out for opposite reasons. PGR drew the sharpest move. The Progressive Corporation was downgraded by consensus analysts,…
Activist fund Corvex Management has filed disclosures showing it sold roughly $215 million worth of ILMN stock between May and early September. The bulk of the sales landed in late August and early September, with…
Short interest in CHWY jumped 21 percentage points in a single week. The pet retailer now has 89.4% of its free float sold short. That is the biggest seven-day rise among large-caps tracked by ORTEX. WOLF sits close…
Japan pulled in $13.5B of net ETF inflows in a single week. That is the standout number in this week's fund flow data, and it signals a sharp pivot toward Asia after months of domestic US dominance. The US remains the…
Options traders on RGC are shifting fast. The put-call ratio dropped to 1.36 on October 14, nearly 2.5 standard deviations below its 20-day mean of 2.23. That is a sharp break from a market that spent most of September…
A sharp and unusual divergence has opened up in Accenture's lending market. Short interest has fallen nearly 12% over the past week to 3.5% of the free float. Yet the cost to borrow the stock has surged from 0.60% to…
The week's first major results are already in motion. SCHW reported Q3 this morning before the open, and Interactive Brokers slipped after its own print despite analyst targets holding firm. The pace accelerates…
Chip stocks are drawing the heaviest options flow this week. NVDA and MU top both the positive and negative bets leaderboard over the past seven days. That two-sided activity signals traders are buying protection while…
Today kicks off a packed earnings stretch. SCHW reports Q3 results this morning before the open. TFC hosts its Q3 earnings call at 8am Eastern. Thursday brings the week's first major industrial prints. STLD and CCK…
Domino's Pizza took one of the day's sharper target price cuts. Analysts trimmed the consensus to $356.85, down from $367.15. That is a drop of more than $10 on average across the panel, with 15 holds and 14 sells in…
Equity Bancshares heads into its Q3 earnings print today with options defensiveness still elevated, short interest on the rise, and a Street debate centred squarely on whether the Lincoln Savings Bank acquisition story…
Interactive Brokers reported Q3 results yesterday and the immediate market reaction was negative, with the stock falling 3.8% on the day to $84.14 and now down 4.1% on the week. The stock's reaction fits a pattern. The…
Home BancShares reports today with the short interest build flagged three days ago still intact, and the fundamental debate over credit quality now the clearest fault line heading into the release. Short interest has…
NVIDIA independent director Mark Stevens filed seven sell transactions in early September, disclosing he offloaded roughly $411M worth of shares between 31 August and 2 September. The trades were reported to regulators…
Schneider Electric reports third-quarter revenue on October 16 with the analyst community firmly on its side, even as the stock has pulled back sharply over the past month. The setup in the lending market is…
Winmark Corporation reports Q3 results today with short interest still elevated near 9.5% of the free float, a stock that has bounced 5.5% in the last session but remains 3.4% lower on the month, and a lending market…
J.B. Hunt Transport Services reports after today's close with the Street's bullish consensus sitting alongside a sharp rebuild in short positioning, a combination that makes the print worth watching closely. The short…
