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The most notable open-market purchase in the latest filing window came from UBER. President and COO Andrew Gordon MacDonald filed two buy transactions on September 4, disclosing combined purchases of roughly $5.3…
Short sellers turned aggressive on MMED this week. The MiniMed Group's short interest jumped to 102.9% of free float, up from 78.6% just seven days ago. That 24-point rise is the biggest weekly move among mid-cap names…
Active funds dominated the past week. They pulled in $81B of net inflows, against $16B for vanilla passive strategies. That gap is the sharpest signal in the data right now: investors are not just buying the market,…
Q3 earnings season is the main event. JNJ and UNH report Monday. Banks take over mid-week: BAC, STT, SCHW and BNY all drop numbers by Thursday. In Europe, Nordea Bank reports Q3 on Thursday. Options markets…
Q3 earnings season is setting the options tone this week. Banks open the books. The options market is paying close attention. ADP, Equinix, and CSX all show 100% positive options bets over the past seven days,…
Q3 earnings season kicks into gear this week. The biggest names hit Tuesday through Thursday. JNJ kicks things off Monday, reporting Q3 2026 results before the open. UNH follows on Monday with its earnings call at 8am…
Analyst activity on Saturday centred on two contrasting calls: a consensus downgrade for Estee Lauder and a string of upgraded price targets for airlines and autos. Estee Lauder suffered the sharpest rating change of…
Insider selling dominated filings this month, with tech and energy names leading the way. The biggest sellers over the past 30 days include executives at DELL, CRWD, and NVDA, according to ORTEX insider momentum data.…
MMED is the standout short interest story this week. The medical device maker's SI % of Free Float hit 102.9%, up 24 points in just seven days. Shares to borrow are nearly impossible to find. Availability stands at…
Q3 earnings season fires up today with a wall of financial results. JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, and Citigroup all report Tuesday morning. Bank of America and Morgan Stanley follow Wednesday. Options…
Options flow is tilting toward financials this week. Q3 earnings season opens with a cluster of major bank reports, and options traders are positioning ahead of the prints. JPMorgan Chase leads the queue. Its RSI has…
The biggest names in US banking dominate the next seven days. JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, and Citigroup all report Tuesday morning, firing the starting gun on Q3 earnings season. Johnson & Johnson also…
The standout signal this week comes from Finland's national vehicle register. Finnish authorities recorded 4,337 new battery-electric car registrations in September 2026. That is the highest September total since…
JP Morgan cut price targets across a sweep of US industrial stocks on Friday. The moves hit energy equipment, steel, automation and aerospace names in one batch. The biggest cut fell on GEV. JP Morgan trimmed its…
Uber Technologies President and COO Andrew MacDonald filed two open-market purchases on September 8, disclosing that he bought 70,000 shares on September 4 for a combined $5.3 million. The trades are discretionary,…
Short sellers stepped up pressure on small and micro-cap names this week, while blue-chip short positions stayed almost flat ahead of the Q3 bank earnings season. WOLF remains the standout among mid-caps. Wolfspeed's…
US equity ETFs pulled in $86B in the past week alone. That is the dominant story in fund flows right now. The flow imbalance sits at 77.9, a strong buying pressure reading. Over three months, US-listed ETFs have…
Q3 reporting season kicks off in force this week. Financial heavyweights Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and UnitedHealth Group all report Monday. Bank of America and State Street follow Tuesday. Options flow…
Bank stocks are the centre of options activity this week. WFC, GS, BAC, C and UNH all face Q3 earnings prints in the days ahead. The queue of major prints is driving elevated hedging demand across the financials…
Q3 earnings season kicks into high gear this week. The biggest names in US finance report back-to-back from Monday through Friday. Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and UnitedHealth Group all report Monday. That…
