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Intuitive Surgical was the sharpest call of the session. Analysts cut the $157 billion robotics giant from a Buy to a Hold, trimming the consensus target price to $478. The stock carries just 2.2% short interest as a…
Tech insiders are cashing out. Arista Networks tops the list of stocks where insiders have sold the most over the past month. Executives filed sales as analysts trimmed price targets ahead of the company's Q3 results.…
Short sellers piled into SHFS this week. SHF Holdings saw its SI % of Free Float rocket from 101% to 857% in seven days. That is the sharpest single-week jump in the dataset. SCWorx was not far behind. Its SI % FF…
The heaviest earnings week of autumn is here. Microsoft and Amazon both report Thursday, October 29, alongside Intel. Options desks have been pricing elevated implied volatility across tech all week. Intel is up 136%…
Options desks are bracing for the busiest earnings week of Q3, with Amazon, Microsoft, and Intel all due to report. Implied volatility across tech is elevated as traders position for binary moves around each…
The heaviest US earnings week of the autumn arrives in the next five days. MSFT and AMZN both report Thursday, October 29, alongside INTC. Microsoft drops its fiscal Q1 results after the close. Amazon follows with its…
US plug-in vehicle registrations posted their worst July in four years in 2026. That is the headline from ORTEX's ingestion of US state EV fleet data, which recorded just 21,482 plug-in registrations for July. The…
Intuitive Surgical was the sharpest move in Friday's analyst activity. The robotic surgery giant was downgraded, with one buy rating shifting to a hold. The consensus target price slipped to $478.30 from $477.63. At a…
Bill Gates filed purchases of more than $187M in RSG shares across four days in late August. The trades were reported to regulators between August 24 and 28. Gates bought at prices around $219 to $222 per share, adding…
CoreWeave is the week's standout mover among large-cap shorts. Short interest as a percentage of free float hit 24.8%, up from 21.2% seven days ago, a gain of 3.6 percentage points. That is a sharp climb for a $25…
China topped the geography table this week, pulling in a net $14.6B over the past seven days. That is a strong imbalance reading of 77.5, well above the 65 threshold that signals clear buying pressure. The US came…
More than $5 trillion in combined market cap reports earnings this week. VZ kicked things off today. Tuesday brings the heaviest load: KO, UPS, SPGI, HCA, FCX, RCL and PYPL all print results. Options markets…
Options markets are sending mixed signals ahead of the busiest earnings stretch of the year. More than $5 trillion in combined market cap reports results this week, and the derivatives flow is far from…
The week's heaviest reporting slate lands on Monday and Tuesday. VZ kicks things off today (Sunday evening/Monday morning) with its Q3 numbers. CDNS reports after the close on Monday. Tuesday brings the real weight.…
Analysts have been busy cutting, with target price reductions outnumbering upgrades across the latest round of changes. The sharpest directional call is a fresh downgrade on ISRG. Intuitive Surgical lost a Buy rating…
The most recent insider filing data available from ORTEX runs to 8 September 2026. Fresh US Form 4 filings could not be retrieved through the available tables, so this note draws on non-US vendor data covering the same…
Short sellers added pressure to CoreWeave this week. Its short interest hit 24.8% of free float, up 3.6 percentage points in seven days. That is a notable move for an AI infrastructure stock already drawing scrutiny…
Microsoft and Alphabet both report after Wednesday's close. Together they carry a combined market cap above $5 trillion. Amazon follows on Thursday. Options markets are positioning hard. Micron Technology shows heavy…
Options markets are bracing for the biggest earnings week of autumn, with Meta Platforms, Microsoft, Alphabet, and Amazon all due to report before Friday. Micron Technology sits at the top of both bullish and bearish…
Today, CDNS kicks off the US earnings parade. Cadence Design Systems reports Q3 results this Sunday afternoon. UCB also posts numbers today in Europe. Tuesday brings S&P Global before the bell. KO reports the same…
