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TD Cowen analyst Gautam Khanna slashed price targets across the defence sector on Saturday. L3Harris Technologies took the sharpest hit. Its target fell to $280 from $370, a 24% reduction, while a Buy rating was kept.…
Li Ning Company's controlling vehicle, Viva China Holdings, has been buying aggressively. Filings reported in early September show it spent over $145m across five separate open-market purchases between August 27 and…
Short sellers made bold moves this week. MMED (MiniMed Group) saw the sharpest jump among mid-cap US stocks. Short interest hit 102.9% of free float, up 24 percentage points in just seven days. Borrowing availability…
Active ETFs pulled in $81B in a single week. That dwarfs every other strategy. Over three months, they attracted $176B with a flow imbalance of 74, indicating persistent buying pressure. The message is clear: investors…
The biggest story of the day is a potential buyout of CCC Intelligent Solutions. Bloomberg reported that GTCR and Elliott Management are close to a deal for the insurance software firm. Elliott is already a significant…
Options activity this week skews toward protection rather than speculation, with semiconductor names attracting the heaviest negative flows as chip stocks face renewed selling pressure. NVDA, MU and AMD top the…
The week of October 13 is all about US banks. Seven major financial names report Q3 results in three days. UNH UnitedHealth Group kicks things off Tuesday, alongside WFC Wells Fargo, GS Goldman Sachs, and JNJ Johnson &…
TD Cowen analyst Gautam Khanna cut price targets across six US defence names on Friday. The sweep is the clearest single-broker signal of the week. L3Harris Technologies took the sharpest hit. Its target dropped to…
An NVIDIA director filed one of this month's biggest insider sell transactions. Mark Stevens, an independent board member, filed sales totalling $411m across late August and early September, covering nearly 1.85…
Short sellers stepped up pressure on two well-known names this week. MMED (MiniMed Group) saw its short interest as a percentage of free float jump to 102.9%, up from 78.6% just seven days ago. That 24-point rise is…
Modivo has spent another week with its lending market at or near complete exhaustion, and the cost to borrow has now climbed to its highest level in at least six weeks. The borrow story has tightened further since the…
Clover Health Investments heads into its November earnings with short sellers adding positions into a stock that has nearly doubled this year, while the executives selling those shares are doing so on pre-arranged…
ImmunityBio enters the second week of October with the borrow market reversing course, retail attention spiking, and a short base that has barely shifted in a month, a combination that sharpens the setup ahead of the…
MI has recovered sharply from last week's lows, up 15.6% over seven days to MYR 6.08, yet the borrow market is sending an unusual signal in the opposite direction: availability has exploded to levels that suggest short…
JST heads into its November 12 results with the stock under quiet but persistent pressure, down 5% over the past month to EUR 58.90, and the lending market offering no read-through to meaningful short conviction. The…
The biggest week of Q3 reporting season begins Monday. UnitedHealth Group and Johnson & Johnson both report before the open on October 13. The bank wave follows: Bank of America and State Street post Tuesday morning,…
Ambarella is the name drawing the most attention in options markets today. Traders circulated an unconfirmed M&A rumour suggesting the chip designer is seeing takeover interest. The stock carries a short interest of…
The earnings calendar gets serious on Monday. UnitedHealth Group kicks off proceedings, reporting Q3 2026 results before the open on October 13. The managed-care giant carries a market cap above $400 billion. Any…
Japan's numerically controlled machine tool orders reached JPY 193,463m in August 2026. That is a 63% rise on August 2025, according to the Japan Machine Tool Builders' Association dataset tracked by ORTEX. It is the…
Three distinct insider clusters emerged in the most recent filings, covering trades reported up to September 8. ESTC founder and CTO Shay Banon filed sales totalling roughly $44m across August 31 and September 2. He…
