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US consumer prices set a new September record. The CPI-U all-items index reached 336.94, its highest September reading since the data series began in 1997. Core CPI also printed at a record 339.29, beating the year-ago…
The options market is pricing in a tense week ahead. Two earnings events dominate the tape as Tesla reports Q3 results on 21 October and General Motors follows the day before on 20 October. Options bets on large US…
Today, BAC (Bank of America) reports Q3 earnings. The $377 billion lender is one of the first major US banks to print this season. PGR (Progressive) also reports today. Tomorrow, SCHW and BNY (BNY Mellon) deliver Q3…
Analysts issued a coordinated wave of target price upgrades across US energy names on Wednesday. ConocoPhillips, EOG Resources, Chevron, Diamondback Energy, Devon Energy, and APA Corporation all received higher…
The most notable US open-market insider trade in the latest filing window came from UBER. Andrew Gordon MacDonald, President and COO, filed a $4.1 million purchase on 8 September, covering 54,325 shares at roughly…
Short sellers grew bolder across several liquid names this week. The biggest mover among stocks worth over $1 billion was CHWY. Its short interest jumped 21 percentage points in seven days to 89.4% of free float. Bears…
Rezolve AI has entered a new phase of borrow stress, with availability collapsing from 22% to near-zero in a single session even as the stock fell 15% on the week. The lending market tells the most urgent story right…
BTDR has reversed the cautiously improving picture from last week: short interest is climbing again, the stock has shed 16% in seven days, and the borrowing market has tightened sharply, putting the bear case back in…
Micron Technology is caught in an unusual split: the price is falling hard on geopolitical headlines, yet the positioning structure continues to move against the bears. The stock dropped another 8% on the week and is…
SoundHound AI has now lost 22% in a month and 15% in a single week, closing at $4.88, with November 5 earnings three weeks out and the short side showing no sign of fatigue. The positioning story has been covered in…
BigBear.ai enters its October 27 earnings print with the borrow market now effectively closed, short interest still near historic highs, and options traders leaning more bullish than the stock's fundamentals…
Rocket Lab has given back most of last week's 7.7% gain in a single week, falling 14.4% to $64.22 as a broad sector selloff met a fresh round of analyst target cuts. The analyst picture is the clearest explanation for…
Hertz Global Holdings is approaching its November 5 earnings date with borrow costs surging to a new high and short interest continuing to grind upward, even as the stock sits flat on the week. The single most striking…
Ondas Inc. is now running a three-week pattern that reads more like a stress test than a stock: material corporate news, a Palantir joint venture, European aviation certification, a $56 million munitions order,…
DNP has now broken above the analyst consensus price target and paused there, with earnings three weeks out and the short-side showing no sign of rebuilding in earnest. The position on the lending side is little…
WEN heads into its November 5 earnings date with a short position that refuses to deflate, a lending market that has loosened modestly from its tightest levels, and options traders who remain stubbornly positioned for…
Modivo is a stock where the bear thesis keeps getting more expensive to own and keeps failing to pay off. The cost to carry a short in MDV has risen roughly 19% since the end of August, reaching 15.8% per annum. That…
Novavax finds itself in an odd position this week: the stock is up 13% and bears are still running the show. The plague-scare rally that drove a 20% single-day gain on October 5 has largely held this time, unlike the…
NWCL has had a bruising October, falling 35% over the past month and another 18% in the past week alone, and the borrow market has taken notice in a striking and somewhat unusual way. The most eye-catching development…
VYLR has recovered well from its post-spinoff dip, but the tenth analyst initiation this week broke ranks with the bullish consensus, adding a note of caution just as the stock approaches the mean price target. The…
