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Corporate insiders have been busy sellers this week. Filings from the past few days reveal a wave of high-level executives liquidating positions across multiple sectors. Mueller Industries CEO Gregory Christopher filed…
Short sellers picked their spots this week. Three names stand out above the crowd. WOLF topped the large-cap SI movers list. Wolfspeed's short interest hit 50.1% of free float — up 4.2 percentage points in just seven…
Growth ETFs pulled in a dominant $95.8B in just one week. That single figure captures the market's mood perfectly. Investors are chasing performance, not safety. The US attracted $129.7B in net inflows over the past…
Two themes dominate US markets today. First, insider selling. CAR saw the most dramatic exit — Pentwater Capital sold over $1.75 billion in Avis Budget Group shares on April 22–23. CRWV CoreWeave is also under the…
Semiconductor names are dominating the options tape. INTC is the standout story. The stock is up 157% year-to-date. Its RSI hit 85.8 — deep overbought territory. Options traders are piling in with heavy call-side bets,…
Now I have a rich picture of the week's confirmed US earnings. Let me compile the article. A packed calendar greets markets for the week of May 1–7. Over 1,700 companies worldwide are scheduled to report, with US names…
Analyst target prices moved sharply on Thursday, with consumer names bearing the brunt of downgrades while pharma stocks attracted upgrades. Clorox saw the steepest consensus target cut. Analysts trimmed their average…
A wave of significant insider selling swept across multiple stocks this week. The filings, reported over the past few days, point to concentrated exits at several well-known names. CAR — Avis Budget Group saw the…
Short sellers are making bold moves. The latest ORTEX data shows a clear pattern: bears are targeting consumer and energy names while squeezable positions grow dangerously large. SCHL (Scholastic) saw the sharpest…
Trump met with Anthropic today and called it a "very good meeting." That lit up call buying in TSLA and GOOGL. An analyst report projected robotaxis will become a $54B market by 2035. TSLA is still down 17%…
Options traders are loading up on semiconductors. NVDA sits atop the negative bets leaderboard this week. AMD and Micron are right behind it. All three have seen heavy put-side flow in the last seven days. Intel stands…
Now I have enough data. Let me also quickly check for the biggest names (Apple, Amazon, etc.) in the earnings data from the week ahead tool results I already received. Based on all the data gathered, I can now write…
JP Morgan and RBC Capital led a broad round of upward target revisions on Thursday, with infrastructure and industrials grabbing the headlines. PWR drew the most dramatic upgrade. JP Morgan's Mark Strouse lifted his…
JP Morgan issued two of the boldest target price upgrades seen this week. Both signals point to confidence in infrastructure and industrial names. Quanta Services received the sharpest lift. JP Morgan analyst Mark…
Short sellers have been busy this week. Several names saw sharp moves in short interest — and a few are flashing squeeze signals. ONCO (Onconetix) is the standout. SI jumped from 14% to 214% of free float in just seven…
Toro Corp CEO Petros Panagiotidis put his money where his mouth is. He filed purchases totalling over $13.8M across April 22–23, snapping up nearly 2.25 million shares of his own shipping company TORO. That's one of…
US equities dominated ETF flows this week. American-focused funds pulled in a net $135B over the past seven days. That dwarfs every other geography combined. The flow imbalance hit 81, a clear sign of strong buying…
Short sellers are on the move heading into May. Data as of April 30 shows sharp swings in positioning across several names. Avis Budget Group CAR leads the dramatic unwinds. Its SI % of FF collapsed from 100.4% to…
US equity ETFs pulled in $135B in the past week alone. That dwarfs every other geography combined. The flow imbalance reading of 81.4 confirms strong buying pressure, not just a rebalancing tick. Over three months,…
US debt crossed 100% of GDP, putting fresh pressure on the macro backdrop. Economist Steve Hanke called for a constitutional fix today. That backdrop sits behind every equity move right now. Futures for the Dow, S&P…
