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Goldman Sachs has abandoned its Sell rating on IBTA, upgrading to Neutral and raising its price target 66% from $35 to $58. Analyst Eric Sheridan made the call on 4 November, the same day the stock was trading at…
Short sellers are piling into the SPDR S&P Homebuilders ETF at a record pace. Short interest has reached 45.4% of free float, the highest level on record for XHB, and the lending market is now severely…
XTB heads into its November 20 earnings with the stock down nearly 7% on the week, a founder still cutting his stake, and borrow availability tightening sharply from extraordinarily loose levels. The dominant fact in…
Ondas Inc. enters its November 12 earnings date with short interest at 69% of the free float, borrow availability at zero, and the stock down 13% on the week: a configuration that has grown more extreme with each…
Delta Air Lines heads into November with one of the cleaner setups in the airline sector: short sellers have cut positions sharply over the past month, options traders are leaning decidedly bullish, and the stock is…
BHP enters the first week of November on the back foot, with the stock down 4.3% over the past week and 6.6% over the past month, as a mix of soft commodity signals and elevated analyst caution weighs on the world's…
DoorDash earnings arrive today, and the market's two loudest voices are pointing in opposite directions. Options traders have pushed the put/call ratio to its highest level in a year. Wedbush just upgraded the stock…
CART reports tomorrow. Five analyst firms downgraded the stock in the past week. Options traders are loading up on puts at the same time. Maplebear Inc., the parent company of Instacart, has seen a wave of rating cuts…
The 2026 midterm elections dominated Wednesday's headlines. Elon Musk donated $474 million to back Republican candidates. His net worth fell $23 billion after the results came in, with Republicans suffering heavy…
Semiconductor stocks are pulling the most options activity this Wednesday, with bulls and bears alike piling into the sector as chip names stage a rebound after a bruising stretch. Micron Technology sits at the top of…
Today brings results from ALB (Albemarle) and ALL (Allstate), both releasing Q3 figures after the close. Cirrus Logic and Cognex also report Wednesday afternoon. Thursday's calendar is busier. Sony Group releases Q2…
European new diesel car registrations fell to 1,383 vehicles in October, the lowest reading since the series began in 2016, according to ORTEX national registration data. The number is not a rounding artefact from a…
Amgen dominated Wednesday's analyst activity. Three separate firms raised their price targets on the biotech giant in the same session. RBC Capital moved its target to $470 from $430. Wells Fargo went to $460 from…
An NVDA board member sold more than $410 million of shares across seven tranches in just three days, the most significant cluster of insider selling to surface in ORTEX's data in recent months. Mark Stevens, an…
Lucid Group is one of the most heavily shorted names in the EV space. Short interest at 31.8% of the free float is higher than peers RIVN at approximately 10% and XPEV, which are far less crowded by comparison. The…
Short sellers intensified bets in several US names this week. The most notable mover among mid-caps is PROG Holdings. Its SI % of FF jumped from 8.5% to 12.1% in seven days, a gain of 3.5 percentage points. Hertz…
Equity ETFs dominated the week. A net $40B flowed into equity funds in the past seven days. That dwarfs every other asset class. Fixed income added $1.7B. Commodities pulled in $778M. Currency funds shed $483M, the…
Three distinct positioning signals arrived on GPRK in the space of 48 hours. All three point the same direction: elevated caution into today's Q3 print. The options market is the sharpest signal. The put/call ratio hit…
Intel is a stock in two minds. The stock has fallen 35.4% in a week, the worst performance among its closest peers: AMD dropped 13.6%, TER fell 16.8%, and most others in the group lost between 1% and 10%. Yet retail…
Booking Holdings is the day's most prominent earnings casualty. Analysts cut forecasts after Q3 results missed expectations, with multiple brokers slashing targets. Travel demand held up, but margin concerns drove the…
