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SoundHound AI has shed another 15% over the past week to $4.88, extending a month-long slide that has now taken the stock 22% lower, with bears firmly in control and November 5 earnings just three weeks away. The…
Modivo enters its next earnings window with the same paradox that has defined the stock for weeks: the borrow market is completely exhausted, carry costs are high, and yet the stock keeps grinding higher. The lending…
CoreWeave has dropped 15% over the past week to CAD 14.67, widening the gap between a stock under selling pressure and a Street that remains conspicuously bullish. The most notable development this week is not the…
Financial sector results dominate Wednesday's calendar. Bank of America and Progressive report today. Charles Schwab and Bank of New York Mellon follow on Thursday. Every print lands against the same backdrop:…
Semiconductor names are drawing the heaviest options traffic this week. Both bullish and bearish bets are stacking up in the same sector, a sign of high uncertainty rather than one-sided conviction. Micron Technology…
Bank of America and Progressive report today, kicking off a week dominated by financials, defence and two of the most-watched names in the market. No IPOs are scheduled in the next seven days. Tomorrow brings Charles…
US consumer prices set their highest September level since records began in 1997. That is the loudest signal in this week's real-economy data from ORTEX's alternative datasets. The Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI-U…
Analysts cut ratings on enterprise storage names HPE and NTAP on Wednesday, while target price trims swept through residential REITs, utilities, and consumer staples. Hewlett Packard Enterprise and NetApp both suffered…
The most notable US insider activity in the latest available data shows Bill Gates making a series of large open-market purchases in RSG, Republic Services. Three separate filings in early September show Gates bought…
CHWY is the week's standout short interest mover. Its SI % of free float jumped from 65.95% to 89.4% in just five days, one of the sharpest near-term surges in the US market. Shares to borrow remain plentiful, with…
The single biggest story this week is Japan. ETFs tracking Japanese equities pulled in $13.4B in net inflows over the past week, with a flow imbalance of 87.3. That is the second-largest geography by net flow, behind…
A rare 74% price-target hike from UBS is the headline for BEN, but the options market is pushing back. The put/call ratio has climbed to a two-standard-deviation extreme even as the stock slides further from the level…
Every share of QUBT available to lend is already out on loan. That structural tightness is now pulling in options traders, creating a three-way convergence of signals across the lending, short positioning, and…
Jefferies flipped to Buy on TXRH this morning, even as short interest hits its steepest one-week rise in a month. The stock sits at $162, down 10.5% over the past month, with earnings due in 15 days. Andy Barish at…
Wednesday brought one of the heaviest earnings days of Q3. Bank of America and Morgan Stanley headlined a slate that also included ExxonMobil, BlackRock, State Street and Progressive. Results from the two big banks…
Options markets are sending mixed signals across the semiconductor space this week. Micron Technology sits at the top of both bullish and bearish bets ranked by size over the past seven days. That two-sided positioning…
Today is already busy. ExxonMobil, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, BlackRock, Fastenal, State Street and Kinder Morgan all report on Wednesday 14 October. The Progressive Corporation also releases earnings today. That…
The lending market for EMAT has effectively seized up. Availability has collapsed to 2.4%, meaning only one share remains borrowable for every 42 already lent out, the tightest the borrow has been in months. Cost to…
Analysts delivered fresh downgrades to the IT storage sector on Wednesday. HPE and NTAP both received consensus downgrades, with target prices holding at $71.74 and $211.69 respectively. The moves reflect continued…
The ORTEX first-party SEC EDGAR tables were unavailable in this environment, so transaction-level Form 4 data and Schedule 13D activist filings could not be retrieved directly. The analysis below draws on ORTEX…
