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Nebius Group has shed 9% over the past week to $221.07, reversing a chunk of the prior week's gains, and for the first time in months the short position has actually moved in the bears' favour. The shift in short…
FITB heads into its October 19 Q3 earnings report at $50.64, down 7% on the month, with short sellers pulling back but analysts still reluctant to push their targets higher. The positioning story has shifted since last…
JSW has posted its best week in months, gaining nearly 8% to close at PLN 34.06, even as the company disclosed a production cut that sent the stock down 6% on the day of the announcement. The tension between a sharp…
Harbor PanAgora Dynamic Large Cap Core ETF (INFO) is generating an unusual signal for a passive vehicle: borrowing costs have surged roughly sevenfold in a month while availability swings violently day to day, a…
SKYD heads into the week of October 13 with short sellers rebuilding positions at pace, borrow supply thinning sharply, and the stock down 15% over the past month to $9.16. The clearest signal this week is the speed of…
Three distinct signals on IVZ collided this week, and they point in opposite directions. UBS nearly doubled its price target on Invesco. Short interest jumped 26% in a single day. Both things happened at the same…
The biggest day of the quarter is here. JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, and Citigroup all dropped Q3 numbers this morning. Johnson & Johnson and UnitedHealth also reported before the open. The results set…
Semiconductor bears are retreating fast. Short interest in SOXX, the iShares Semiconductor ETF, tumbled 20.5% in a single week to 19.5% of float, the lowest level since early September. Concurrently, short positions in…
Today is the busiest day of the week for big finance. JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, and Citigroup all report Q3 results this morning. Johnson & Johnson also drops numbers before the open. UnitedHealth…
Irish battery-electric car licensings jumped 54% year-on-year in September 2026, reaching 3,074 vehicles against 2,000 a year earlier. The figures come from the Irish vehicle licensing register. The broader market…
Wells Fargo analyst Michael Turrin made two sharply contrasting calls on Monday, downgrading ADBE from Buy to Sell while simultaneously upgrading TYL from Hold to Buy. The Adobe cut is the more striking move. Turrin…
ORTEX insider momentum data for the past month shows a clear tilt toward selling across US large-cap stocks. AppLovin registers the most negative insider momentum of any name in the US universe above $1 billion market…
Short sellers turned aggressive last week. Chewy saw its SI % of free float jump nearly 20 points in seven days to 87.3%. Wolfspeed is equally squeezed at 87.3% of float. Both stocks have near-zero availability of…
Equities absorbed $113B in net ETF inflows last week. That dwarfed every other asset class combined. The tone is unmistakably risk-on, with buying pressure across geographies, sectors and strategies pointing in the…
Why this matters: Convergence signals require three or more independent ORTEX data streams to align on the same ticker within days. This week, 18 tickers triggered that threshold. Brazilian equities and financials…
Sentiment read: Options flow split sharply this week. Momentum and ETF names drew aggressive call buying, pushing put-call ratios to historic lows. At the same time, traders loaded up on puts ahead of several October…
The street leaned bearish this week. Downgrades outnumbered upgrades across the week of October 5, with concentrated selling pressure from analysts on industrial software, homebuilders, and financials. Two names, PTC…
Citigroup upgraded BXDC to Buy this morning, the first rating lift since the stock launched coverage in June. The call arrives as short sellers cut positions sharply and options traders sit as bullish as they have been…
Short interest in Verastem dropped 20.3% in a single day on October 9, falling to 19.7% of free float. That is the sharpest one-day unwind in recent weeks, and it arrived as the stock rebounded 3.3%. Since the previous…
Short interest shifted sharply this week across Brazilian financials, energy ETFs, and a clutch of mid-cap US names. The biggest stories were a 56% surge in Bradesco shorts despite a JP Morgan upgrade, a 52% collapse…
