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Options markets are pricing a packed earnings week. Chips and mega-cap tech sit at the centre of the action. AMD, MSFT, META, and AMZN are all due to report, with TSLA also in the queue. ORTEX options sentiment data…
This week's biggest event risk sits in two earnings calls. Microsoft reports Tuesday after the close. Amazon follows Wednesday. Both carry market caps above $2.5 trillion. Options flow is two-sided in each name,…
Tech earnings week is pulling options flow into semiconductors and mega-cap names. Micron Technology leads both positive and negative options bets over the past seven days. It sits at the top of the ORTEX options…
Microsoft and Amazon dominate the calendar this week. Both companies report against a backdrop of surging cloud demand and AI infrastructure spend. Microsoft holds its earnings call Tuesday after the close. Amazon…
Fair Isaac Corporation FICO is today's sharpest mover among analyst desks. The credit-scoring giant saw its consensus rating downgraded, with the average target price slipping from $1,007 to $937. That is a drop of…
The most striking open-market buying in the latest filing window came from Shenzhou International Group Holdings, the Hong Kong-listed garment maker. Executive Chairman Ma Jianrong filed four separate purchases between…
Short sellers added pressure across several names this week. CoreWeave saw the sharpest move among large-cap stocks. Its SI % FF climbed 4.5 percentage points in seven days to reach 25.7%. The AI cloud provider trades…
This is one of the busiest reporting weeks of 2026. S&P Global kicks off today. Microsoft follows tomorrow after the close, reporting Q1 fiscal 2027 results. Thursday brings the two biggest prints: Amazon and Intel…
Options markets are on edge as a dense earnings slate collides with extreme real-economy signals. Bearish bets dominate activity in chip and AI names. NVDA, AMD and MU are drawing the heaviest negative options flow…
The most striking reading in this week's alternative data comes from the nuclear output dataset. Talen Energy recorded reactor output 10.0 standard deviations below its own history as of 9 October. That is the sharpest…
Today marks the start of one of the busiest reporting weeks of 2026. S&P Global kicks things off this morning with Q3 results. The data giant has been a bellwether for financial market activity all year. Tomorrow,…
Wells Fargo analyst Jason Kupferberg made two notable calls today. He raised his target on CTSH from $67 to $77. That is a 15% jump. He kept his Buy rating. The consensus target for Cognizant also edged up to…
The most striking feature of this week's insider picture is what is missing. ORTEX's first-party SEC EDGAR Form 4 tables, the primary source for US open-market insider trades, are unavailable in the current…
Short sellers made bold moves this week. CoreWeave saw the biggest jump among large-cap names. Its SI % of FF rose 4.5 percentage points in seven days to 25.7%. Bears are betting the AI cloud darling's $25B valuation…
China ETFs pulled in $19.9B in a single week. That is the standout number across all ETF flows right now, and it dwarfs every other geography by a wide margin. China's $19.9B weekly inflow carries a flow imbalance…
Tesla cancelled the Cybertruck in two markets today. The move adds to a bleak demand picture. California ZEV registrations fell 37% year-on-year to 80,392 vehicles in July 2026, per ORTEX alt data. That is the smallest…
Options sentiment has turned sharply negative on electric vehicle stocks. California new ZEV registrations fell 37% year-on-year to 80,392 units in July 2026, the smallest Q3 reading in three years, per ORTEX alt data.…
The week's biggest moment arrives Thursday. Amazon and Intel both report Q3 2026 results after the close on October 29. Microsoft goes a day earlier. The $3.9 trillion company drops its Q1 fiscal 2027 numbers on…
Wells Fargo made two bold calls on Monday, lifting targets on CTSH and ACN in the same session. Analyst Jason Kupferberg raised his Cognizant target to $77 from $67, reiterating Buy. He lifted Accenture to a $252…
The most striking insider buying in recent filings came from outside the US. Ma Jianrong, Executive Chairman of 2313 Shenzhou International Group, filed a cluster of open-market purchases across early September,…
