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Coinbase dropped another 4% on Monday to $137.83, taking its one-month loss to 25%. The put/call ratio jumped to 0.87 on November 2, 3.6 standard deviations above its 20-day mean, the highest reading in at least a…
Today is packed. GRAB reports earnings on Nasdaq, with a market cap of $11.7B. ADTN also posts results today. Deutsche Lufthansa releases numbers too, alongside Norwegian salmon farmer SalMar. The auto sector dominates…
Marvell Technology suffered the sharpest consensus shift today, with analysts cutting the stock from a Buy to a Hold. The consensus target price slipped to $327.36 from $333.09. That is a near-$6 drop in the average…
Arista Networks and Dell Technologies sat atop the list of names with the highest insider selling volumes over the past month, according to ORTEX data. Dell has gained 212% year-to-date, a run that has given executives…
Short sellers made their biggest moves of the week in energy and AI, with Talen Energy and Cerebras Systems seeing the sharpest rises in short interest among stocks worth over $500 million. TLN short interest jumped…
The put-call ratio on NVS hit 2.69 on November 2, the highest reading in 52 weeks and 3.3 standard deviations above the 20-day mean of 2.06. That is a meaningful jump from a PCR that had sat between 1.79 and 2.32 for…
Intel has lost 33.7% in a week and nearly half its value over the past month, following a Q4 earnings release that triggered the largest single-session collapse in its recent history. The question now is who is…
The biggest story this morning is a report from the Financial Times that the US, Russia and China are discussing a trilateral meeting between Trump, Putin and Xi. The news hits equities and bonds broadly. China halted…
A dense auto earnings calendar is shaping options positioning into the first week of November, with markets watching closely as carmakers from Maranello to Yokohama report. RACE reports today. ORTEX alt data shows…
Japan's factory order data dominated the real-economy picture in September. Numerically controlled machine tool orders reached JPY 218,864m, up 59% on the same month a year earlier, according to the Japan Machine Tool…
The auto sector owns this week's earnings calendar. From Tokyo to Mumbai, carmakers report in the next four days against a backdrop of sharply mixed registration data. Ferrari kicks off today. Austrian car registration…
Howmet Aerospace picked up an upgrade from analysts today, with the consensus target price moving to $296 from $307. The stock carries a $79 billion market cap and short interest of just 2.6% of free float. Analysts…
Insider buying picked up across US financials and homebuilders over the past month, while technology executives continued to trim positions, according to ORTEX data. Corebridge Financial topped the buyer list by value…
Short interest data from ORTEX as of 30 October shows several sharp moves in the past week. The action is concentrated in energy infrastructure, AI hardware, and restructured names. TLN, Talen Energy, saw its short…
The week's most striking signal is a rush into Asian markets. Over $10.5B flowed into China ETFs in the past seven days. Japan added $4.4B and Taiwan pulled in $3.7B. That is a sharp break from the three-month trend,…
Lucid Group reports Q3 results on Thursday with short sellers holding their largest position in at least a year and the borrow market near its tightest. Short interest has climbed to 31.5% of the free float, up 12%…
Hertz Global Holdings reports Thursday with 40% of its free float sold short, borrow costs at 162% APR, zero availability in the lending pool, and a stock that has clawed back 11% over the past month to $1.95. The…
EVCM arrives at its November 5 earnings print with the borrow market almost entirely locked up, a dynamic that makes the stock unusually sensitive to whatever the numbers deliver. The lending side of the story is the…
Harmony Biosciences heads into its November 4 Q3 earnings print with shorts at their most aggressive in months and options traders paying heavily for downside protection. The short interest story is genuinely…
MACOM Technology Solutions has fallen harder than its semiconductor peers over the past week, down 8.8% against a median decline of 4.3% for its closest correlated group, which includes Semtech, SiTime, and…
