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Short sellers sharpened their bets across several high-profile names this week. CoreWeave saw the biggest move among large-caps. Its short interest rose 3.6 percentage points in seven days to 24.8% of free float. Bears…
China and Taiwan pulled in a combined $18.3B this week. That is the clearest signal in the ETF flow data: institutional money is rotating hard into Asian markets, with a record-breaking backdrop lending weight to the…
Options traders are piling bearish bets on chip stocks ahead of a packed earnings week. Micron, Broadcom, Intel, and Applied Materials all rank among the top targets for negative options flow this week. All four carry…
Options sentiment split sharply this week. Bullish sweeps are clustering in industrials while negative bets are piling up in semiconductors ahead of a heavy earnings schedule. Union Pacific leads the bullish side. The…
American Express kicks off today, reporting Q3 earnings this morning. SLB also posts today, with investors watching oil services demand closely. Monday brings Verizon. Tuesday is the heaviest day of the week.…
JP Morgan had a busy morning. The bank cut targets on four names in quick succession, with Bloom Energy taking the sharpest hit. JP Morgan analyst Mark Strouse trimmed his Bloom Energy target to $292 from $314, a drop…
NVIDIA director Mark A. Stevens filed to disclose a string of open-market sales totalling over $366 million, with trades executed between 31 August and 2 September 2026. Stevens sold batches of 300,000 shares at prices…
Short sellers added to positions in CoreWeave this week. Its short interest as a percentage of free float climbed to 24.8%, up from 21.2% seven days ago. That 3.6 percentage point jump is one of the biggest moves among…
An analyst warning landed today that 45% of planned AI data centre capacity for 2027 may never get built. The note hit NVDA, AMZN, MSFT, and CoreWeave simultaneously. CoreWeave already carries 24.8% short interest as a…
Earnings season is sharpening options sentiment across the market. The clearest bullish reads are in two rail names: Union Pacific and Canadian Pacific Kansas City, both posting 100% positive options flow over the past…
Taiwan's export order data, published by the Ministry of Economic Affairs, produced the headline number of the month. Total orders reached $114.2bn in September 2026. That is the largest September reading since the…
Today brings two major S&P 500 prints. American Express reports Q3 results this morning. SLB also posts today, with oilfield services under pressure from softer crude sentiment. Europe is busy too. Safran ($141bn…
Analysts pushed targets higher across a broad range of names today, though a notable cut to Western Digital stood out. The consensus target on the storage hardware group fell to $642.75 from $650.88, a $8 trim after a…
The most recent insider data available from ORTEX covers filings up to September 8, 2026. US-specific SEC EDGAR Form 4 tables were not accessible in this session, so the largest open-market trades by named C-suite…
Short sellers added pressure to CoreWeave this week. SI % of FF rose 3.6 percentage points in seven days to 24.8%. The AI cloud stock has a $25bn market cap. Bears are clearly unconvinced by the AI infrastructure…
China topped the geography table this week. It pulled in a net $12.0B over seven days, beating the US at $8.2B. The flow imbalance reading of 76.1 for China signals strong buying pressure. Taiwan was third with $5.6B,…
American Express posted a profit jump today as premium cardholders kept spending freely. The company's CFO described client behaviour as showing "strong and consistent spend growth" over the past year. CEO Steve Squeri…
A tech-sector correction is reshaping options activity this week. Semiconductor names dominate positive bets lists as traders try to pick the bottom. NVDA sits at the top of 7-day positive options bets, drawing call…
Over 1,400 companies report this week. The biggest names hit on Wednesday and Thursday. MSFT reports after the close on Tuesday. The software giant carries a $3.96 trillion market cap into the print. AMZN follows on…
Earnings season is driving a wave of target price upgrades across US equities, with railroads and enterprise software leading the activity this week. Both NSC Norfolk Southern and CSX received consensus target lifts,…
