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Q3 earnings season hits its stride this week. US financials lead the charge, with several major banks reporting between Monday and Friday. UNH and JNJ both report on Monday. Wells Fargo also releases Q3 results Monday…
Analysts delivered a clear upgrade for HUM this week. Humana gained one buy rating, pushing its consensus to 10 holds and 1 buy. The average target price rose to $452.87, up from $433.74. That is a 4.4% move in analyst…
The most notable US insider story in the latest filings centres on ILMN. Activist fund Corvex Management, which holds a board seat, filed a cluster of sales across 2 to 4 September, offloading roughly 231,000 shares…
Short sellers are sharpening their focus on two names above all others this week: MMED and WOLF. MiniMed Group's short interest hit 103% of free float, up from 79% just seven days ago. That 24-point jump is the largest…
Big banks dominate the calendar this week. UNH and JNJ both report Q3 results today. BAC drops numbers Tuesday at 6:45am ET. STT, SCHW, and BNY all follow later in the week. In Europe, Nordea Bank posts Q3 results…
Q3 earnings season opens this week with a sharp split in options sentiment across the S&P 500. Truist Financial sits at the most bearish end of the options spectrum. Its 7-day positive options bet percentage has…
The big US banks take centre stage this week. UNH kicks off today with its Q3 2026 earnings call. JNJ reports Q3 results at 6:45am ET on Monday as well. Tuesday brings BAC, which drops Q3 numbers before the open at…
German new-car registrations delivered the month's headline number. Battery-electric vehicle sign-ups hit 88,335 in September, up 95% on the same month last year. The figures come from the German vehicle register,…
PepsiCo received the most notable upgrade in the latest round of analyst changes. The consensus rating shifted upward. The average target price fell to $143.18 from $145.82, reflecting mixed views on valuation. Still,…
The most eye-catching insider move filed in early September came from South Korea. Kim Byeong-Soo, CEO of A108490 ROBOTIS, filed on September 8 that he sold 366,525 shares on the same day, raising roughly $75m. That is…
Short interest surged in MiniMed Group over the past week. SI hit 102.9% of free float as of October 8, up from 78.6% just seven days earlier. That 24-point jump is one of the biggest weekly moves tracked across…
Active ETFs took in $82B in a single week. That is the headline number from this week's fund flow data. It dwarfs every other strategy category and signals a clear shift in how institutional money is moving. The US…
The biggest event on the calendar this week is Q3 earnings. JNJ and UnitedHealth Group both report Monday morning. Bank of America, State Street and Charles Schwab follow through Wednesday. BlackRock reports on…
Options sentiment turned bullish on CCI Crown Castle this week. The tower REIT heads into its Q3 print with an RSI of 71.75 and 18.6% analyst upside on the table. The stock is down 10.4% year to date, which is drawing…
Q3 earnings season shifts into gear this week. The calendar is heavy with financials, and several major names report within 24 hours of each other. JNJ kicks off Monday morning, reporting Q3 results at 6:45am ET on…
BEPC heads into its October 14 earnings release with short sellers firmly positioned but no sign of a squeeze building in the lending market. Short interest is a meaningful 8.9% of the free float, roughly flat over the…
BLK heads into its October 14 earnings report with options traders the most bullish they have been all year, even as analysts have spent the past week quietly marking down their price targets. The call-heavy skew in…
Alcoa reports Q3 results on October 14 with the stock down 18% over the past month and the analyst community still cutting targets, leaving the print to answer whether the damage to expectations has finally been…
Crown Castle heads into its October 14 Q3 earnings report on an unusually sharp run, with investors pricing in a meaningful re-rating rather than simply marking time. The stock jumped 15.6% on October 9 alone and is up…
Kinder Morgan reports Q3 results on October 14 with the stock up nearly 5% on the week, options traders leaning constructive, and a structural index question gathering in the background. The positioning read heading…
