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A packed earnings calendar is driving heavy options activity this week. Negative bets are concentrated in semiconductors and megacap tech, where traders appear positioned for volatile prints rather than clean…
European industrials and Asian carmakers dominate the calendar this week. Investors get reads on luxury goods, semiconductors and pharma before Thursday's auto-sector avalanche. UCB kicks off Monday with a pharma…
The biggest week of the US earnings season arrives with MSFT, GOOGL, and AMZN all reporting between Tuesday and Thursday. Markets will be watching closely for signals on cloud spending, AI monetisation, and consumer…
Taiwan's export machine produced an all-time high in September 2026. Total export orders reached NT$3,622.3bn, according to the Taiwan Ministry of Economic Affairs series that dates to 1984. That compares with…
Analysts raised targets across several names on Friday. The moves cover crypto, financial services, and life sciences. COIN saw the most attention. Coinbase's average consensus target edged up to $213.55, with analysts…
Insider trading data from the vendor table, current to September 8, 2026, shows limited open-market activity for US names this week. The EDGAR Form 4 tables used for first-party SEC filings were unavailable in this…
CoreWeave topped the week's short interest movers among large caps. SI as a percentage of free float rose 3.6 points to 24.8% in seven days. The AI cloud company carries a $25.5 billion market cap, yet bears continue…
Taiwan's export orders hit a record $95.7B in September 2026, the highest since the series began in 1984. ETF flow data tells a similar story. This week, money moved decisively toward Asian tech and away from defensive…
The heaviest earnings stretch of the season is here. MSFT and GOOGL report Wednesday after the close. AMZN and INTC follow Thursday. Options markets are already pricing in large moves across all four names. CNC carries…
Big Tech earnings are dominating options sentiment this week. AMZN, GOOGL and MSFT all report in the days ahead. Traders are pricing in moves across the board. Defensive positioning has jumped ahead of the prints. RIVN…
The heaviest earnings week of the season hits Thursday. MSFT reports Wednesday after the close. GOOGL follows on the same day. AMZN and INTC drop results on Thursday. Today, CDNS posts numbers at 12:30 ET. Celestica…
Analyst consensus target prices shifted upward on several names Friday, with two financial heavyweights leading the moves. AXP drew the largest target bump in absolute terms. The average analyst price target rose to…
The most striking open-market purchase in recent filings came from Servyou Software Group CEO Zhang Zhen Chao, who filed a $108m buy in the Chinese enterprise software firm on 2 September. That is a concentrated…
Short sellers made a clear call on AI infrastructure this week. CoreWeave saw its short interest jump 3.7 percentage points in just six days, reaching 24.8% of free float as of October 22. Bears are circling the cloud…
Microsoft and Amazon are the centrepiece of one of the busiest earnings weeks of the season. Both report Thursday alongside Intel, creating a single-day triple-header for big tech. Microsoft's cloud growth pace is the…
Tech earnings week is pulling options flow heavily to the call side. Union Pacific, Cintas, and Illinois Tool Works all show 100% positive options flow over the past seven days, according to ORTEX data. That signals…
Microsoft and Amazon headline an unusually heavy earnings slate this week. Both report Thursday, October 29, alongside Intel in a triple-header for big tech. Microsoft kicks off Wednesday evening with its fiscal Q1…
Taiwan's export order data, published by the Ministry of Economic Affairs, broke a 42-year record in September. Total orders reached NT$3,622.3bn, the largest September reading since the series began in 1984. That…
JP Morgan dominated Friday's ratings sweep with moves across several sectors. The bank cut its target on BE Bloom Energy from $314 to $292, while keeping a Buy. That is a notable step back for a clean energy name that…
Uber President and COO Andrew Gordon MacDonald filed disclosures on 8 September showing he spent over $5.3M buying shares in two tranches on 4 September. The larger purchase totalled $4.1M for 54,325 shares. The…
