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TRIP enters the back half of August with a brutal tension at its core: shorts have been covering at a meaningful pace, yet the stock is still down 23% over the past month and slipped another 2% on Friday to $10.74. The…
XMAX delivered its earnings print on August 14 and has another report scheduled for August 20 — and the stock enters that second event with bears still heavily committed but the lending market offering fractionally…
Howard Hughes Holdings heads into the back half of August with options markets flashing the most defensive signal in months, even as short sellers remain cautiously positioned rather than aggressively bearish. The…
Suncor Energy heads into mid-August on the front foot — the stock up 9% on the week, shorts pulling back, and analysts pointing to roughly 14% further upside from current levels. The price move is the headline number,…
Visa ends the week with a notable development buried beneath the surface calm: short sellers have materially reduced their positions, even as the stock itself has barely moved. The week's most striking data point is…
MSCI enters the back half of August with a familiar tension: the stock is down 7% over the past month, yet its founder and CEO spent May buying aggressively at prices close to where the shares trade today. The insider…
Lululemon heads into its September 3 earnings report with short sellers sitting on meaningful positions, the cost to borrow creeping higher, and a Street that has spent months cutting targets but has yet to find a…
Macy's heads into its August 26 earnings print with short sellers rebuilding positions at the fastest weekly pace in months, even as the stock slips back toward the low $20s. The short interest story is the standout…
Delta Air Lines is navigating a tricky moment: a cluster of significant insider sales at the top of the house, a modest dip in the stock, and an options market that has quietly shifted more defensive — even as the…
FSLR has pulled back nearly 10% this week to $225.56, surrendering a chunk of the 20% surge that followed the Q2 print — and the question now is whether shorts are pressing their advantage or getting squeezed into the…
MA heads into mid-August having done something it refused to do for three straight weeks: short interest has ticked down, the stock has recovered, and the standoff between stubborn bears and uniformly bullish analysts…
AT&T heads into mid-August having added nearly 17% in a month, yet the options market is the least defensive it has been all year — a divergence that makes the current setup genuinely interesting. The clearest tension…
Brookfield Corporation heads into the weekend as the laggard in its own peer group, falling 3.1% on Friday while the broader alternative asset management complex sold off more mildly — and the lending market offers no…
BIDU enters its August 18 Q2 earnings release at $103.67, down 5.5% on the week, with the short-selling community in a markedly different posture than it held a month ago. The borrow market transformation since…
Gold Fields Limited reports results on August 20, and the setup is defined less by short-seller aggression than by the gap between a stock that has rallied 18% in a month and an earnings record that has recently swung…
The stalemate that defined SOXX last week has broken — but not in the direction bulls needed. Short interest has climbed, availability has cratered back toward crisis levels, and borrowing costs have doubled. The…
ACGL enters the back half of August with a quietly improving setup — short sellers have pulled back sharply, analysts are nudging targets higher, and the stock is holding near $98.71 despite a softer month for the…
WHR enters the back half of August with short sellers rebuilding positions at pace, the Street trimming targets across the board, and options traders the most defensively positioned they've been in months — a rare…
VZ heads into mid-August riding its best month in some time, up 14% over the past thirty days to $48.48 — and the post-earnings tailwind from late July is still doing most of the work. The Q2 print on July 24 delivered…
State Street heads into the back half of August with an interesting split: short sellers are backing away at a meaningful pace, yet options traders are the most defensively positioned they have been in months. The…
