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The US labour market printed its strongest October in nearly three decades. Nonfarm payrolls reached 159,293 thousand last month, according to the US jobs and CPI dataset tracked by ORTEX, beating the previous October…
Barclays swept through its coverage universe Friday, issuing target price changes across energy, chemicals, and consumer sectors. Albemarle took the sharpest cut. Barclays trimmed the lithium miner's target to $95 from…
The latest filings in ORTEX insider data show a stark split in executive conviction, with one founder selling heavily into a rally and a US tech chief putting fresh money to work. Wong Thean Soon, founder and CEO of…
Short sellers are pushing hard into rental car and EV names. Hertz Global Holdings tops the most-stressed list. SI stands at 73.4% of free float. The cost to borrow has surged to 470% APR, with availability at zero.…
The biggest money flow story this week is China. ETFs focused on the country pulled in $26.6B in net new money over the past five days. That is the second-largest geographic inflow behind only the U.S. ($30.7B). The…
Short sellers betting against 40 of the main American artificial intelligence and chip stocks made an estimated $34.8bn in paper profits this week, ORTEX data show. The midterm results knocked the sector on fears of…
Semiconductors are dominating both sides of Friday's market. NVDA sits at the top of bullish and bearish options rankings simultaneously. Its 14-day RSI has fallen to 25, deep in oversold territory. Reports of Nvidia…
Semiconductor stocks are dominating US options flow this Friday. Bullish and bearish bets are both concentrated in the same sector, a split rarely seen this clearly. NVDA sits at the top of both positive-bets and…
Today brings a dense slate of earnings from across the globe. Nintendo ($64.6B market cap) reports results this Friday. So does Honda Motor ($98B). ORTEX alt data shows Japanese car sales ran +6% year-on-year in…
Barclays swept through a wide range of sectors on Friday, issuing a batch of target price changes that leaned bearish on chemicals and energy while lifting travel and medtech names. The most eye-catching upgrade came…
Kenneth Bryan Dart disclosed purchases of more than $715 million worth of EVO shares across two tranches in late July, with the filings reported in late August. Dart, listed as main shareholder of Evolution AB, bought…
Short sellers built new positions in MGM Resorts International and Conagra Brands this week. Both are among the clearest mid-week movers in the US market. MGM's short interest climbed to 14.3% of free float from 12.1%…
MRNA is the story of the day. The biotech posted a surprise quarterly profit and raised its full-year outlook. The stock has gained 719% year to date. Options traders rushed into near-term strikes, with the November 20…
MRNA dominated options desks on Friday after the biotech stunned Wall Street with a surprise quarterly profit and raised its full-year outlook. The stock has gained 719% year to date. Traders rushed to reprice upside…
Friday brings a heavy batch of earnings from Japan's big carmakers. Honda Motor reports today alongside Mitsubishi Motors and Isuzu. ORTEX alt data shows Japanese car sales running 6% above year-ago levels over the…
Finland registered just 5,573 new cars in October, the smallest October total in the national register since records began in 2014, according to the ORTEX vehicle registrations dataset. That undercut the previous…
Barclays dominated Friday's analyst tape, issuing a sweep of target price revisions across energy, chemicals, and consumer sectors. The sharpest cut came on ALB. Barclays analyst Aleksey Yefremov trimmed the target on…
Bill Gates filed disclosures in late August showing he bought nearly $664 million worth of RSG shares between 18 August and 2 September. Across 46 separate transactions, the Gates family office added almost 3 million…
Short sellers are keeping their biggest bets on a cluster of distressed names this Friday. Wolfspeed leads the pack with 88.9% of its free float sold short. 1-800-Flowers sits at 74.2% and Hertz at 73.4%. Groupon and…
The dominant story this week is a sharp surge in equity buying. ETF equity funds pulled in a net $64.6B in the past seven days. That is the biggest flow by asset class by a wide margin. The tone is unambiguously…
