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Constellation Brands has climbed 11.5% over the past week to $126.40. The analyst picture has shifted slightly. The short position keeps growing. Two things are now new since the last report: JP Morgan raised its…
UnitedHealth Group reported a 61% jump in quarterly profit but the stock wavered. Investors appear cautious despite a raised full-year outlook. It is the clearest example today of a market that is hard to impress:…
Semiconductors and biotech are pulling opposite ends of the options market this week. Negative bet volume is concentrated in chip names, while a handful of large-caps are drawing near-total bullish flow. NVDA sits at…
Tomorrow kicks off a heavy Q3 reporting stretch. Bank of America posts results before the bell on Wednesday. Morgan Stanley reports the same morning at 7:30 a.m. Eastern. The Charles Schwab Corporation and The Bank of…
The Atlas EV Hub's Colorado registration series recorded a fourth consecutive monthly rise in July 2026. Battery-electric vehicle registrations reached 160,820 that month. Total plug-in vehicle registrations, which…
A wave of modest target price reductions swept across industrial and data names on Tuesday, while Wall Street moved the other way on energy refiners and social media. NXP Semiconductors took the most eye-catching cut…
Uber Technologies President and COO Andrew MacDonald filed an open-market purchase of $5.3 million worth of UBER stock on 8 September, across two transactions totalling 70,000 shares. The trade was made on 4 September…
Short interest in CHWY jumped 17.5 percentage points in a single week. It now stands at 87.3% of free float, placing it among the most shorted names on US exchanges. Yet availability sits at 506%, meaning shares to…
Japan was the standout geography story of the week. ETFs focused on Japan pulled in $12.7B in net flows over seven days, with a flow imbalance of 83.4 out of 100. That is a sharp reversal from the three-month picture,…
Q3 earnings season is in full swing. UNH UnitedHealth Group kicked things off today. BAC Bank of America reports tomorrow before the open. SCHW Charles Schwab and BNY Bank of New York Mellon follow Thursday. The…
Negative options flow is piling into semiconductor and clean energy names this week, while macro concerns dominate the broader tape. NVDA, MU, and AMD top the US market for bearish options bets over the past seven…
The Q3 earnings season shifts into higher gear this week. Over 30 confirmed results and calls are scheduled across US and European markets. Today brings UNH UnitedHealth Group's Q3 numbers, one of the most closely…
Target prices are falling across several sectors this week. The cuts are broad but the drivers differ. NXPI saw the biggest semiconductor cut. The consensus target for NXP Semiconductors dropped to $306.66 from…
An NVIDIA director filed a cluster of large sales in early September, the most notable insider activity in the most recent data. Mark Stevens, an independent board member, reported selling over 1.6 million shares…
Constellation Brands has gained 11.6% over the past week to $126.40, yet short sellers keep adding. The gap between price action and positioning is wider now than at any point in recent weeks, and retail attention has…
Short sellers made bold new bets last week. CHWY topped the movers list, with short interest as a percentage of free float jumping 17.5 points in seven days to reach 87.3%. That is one of the sharpest weekly moves…
Bank of America's dramatic reversal on CRM is reshaping the lending market. A 78% price target increase and a flip from Underperform to Buy, the widest single-note swing in the analyst record, has coincided with a…
The week's dominant story is earnings. UnitedHealth Group and Johnson & Johnson both report Q3 results this morning. J&J carries a $630bn market cap, making it the largest print of the week. Bank of America follows…
Bearish options bets concentrated in semiconductor names this week. NVDA, AMD, and MU led the negative options flow table over the past seven days. The chip rebound seen on Tuesday stalled, and CNBC noted that the S&P…
Today kicks off a packed earnings calendar. UnitedHealth Group and Johnson & Johnson both report Q3 results this morning. UNH carries a market cap of $340bn. J&J is the week's largest reporter at $630bn. Progressive…
