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EIS, the iShares MSCI Israel ETF, heads into August with short sellers retreating and the borrow market moving firmly into easy territory — a notable shift for a geopolitically sensitive instrument that saw meaningful…
Visa delivered its fiscal Q4 2026 earnings on July 28 and the Street's pre-print optimism was validated — the stock is up nearly 3% on the week to $366.13, and analysts have responded with one of the most uniform…
Dollar Tree heads into its August 26 earnings report with options traders making their most bullish call in over a year — a striking pivot for a stock that has spent most of 2026 weighed down by bearish…
XME, the SPDR S&P Metals & Mining ETF, enters August with short sellers making an aggressive push against the sector — and the lending market struggling to keep up. Short interest has climbed sharply, and the scale of…
DAL enters August with the most interesting tension sitting between a uniformly bullish analyst community and a stock that has given back ground since reporting earnings in mid-July. The Street's post-earnings reaction…
Leidos Holdings enters its August 4 earnings report at $115.60 — up 12% over the past month but still carrying the weight of a stock that has shed roughly 38% year-to-date, with bears freshly rebuilt and the Street's…
Saia enters August bruised — down 18% on the week to $347.63, the sharpest single-week decline the LTL carrier has seen in recent memory, and the entire freight sector is watching what comes next. The catalyst was…
XPO has cleared its Q2 earnings hurdle — the stock gained 0.8% on the day of results — but the broader freight selloff has left shares down 5.7% on the week to $200.97, a gap that tells two different stories at…
Crocs managed a 3.5% bounce on July 31st, yet the week still ended 5% lower — and beneath that recovery, short positioning has been drifting higher for a month while the borrow market remains notably loose. The…
Live Nation Entertainment delivered its Q2 print on July 30 and the market said no — the stock dropped 5.1% the next day to $174.13, even as analysts responded by raising targets across the board. The disconnect…
Builders FirstSource delivered its Q2 results on July 30 and the market's verdict was swift — the stock fell sharply, ending the week down 9% to $66.44, reversing all of the pre-earnings recovery and leaving shares 26%…
DXCM delivered a Q2 earnings beat that flipped the script entirely — the defensive hedging that dominated the pre-print note has given way to a broad analyst upgrade cycle and the stock's strongest weekly move in…
2330 has done in a single session what the prior two weeks of grinding recovery could not — the stock surged 10% on Friday to TWD 2,425, effectively closing the post-earnings discount that had defined the narrative…
STMicroelectronics enters August carrying the weight of a brutal earnings reaction — a 20% single-day collapse on July 23 that has now extended to a 29% monthly loss, raising the question of whether the selloff has…
MKTX enters the week of August 5 earnings in a peculiar spot: the stock just posted one of its best weeks in years, yet analysts are cutting targets and the only Buy rating on the Street disappeared on the day of…
SOXX arrives at the end of July having shed 21% in a single month — yet the positioning data tells a surprisingly measured story for a fund down that much. Short interest is genuinely elevated, running at 21.6% of the…
TLT ended the week on the back foot — the brief bear capitulation documented in Monday's note has stalled, with short interest edging back up and the ETF dropping another 1.2% to close at $82.25, now down nearly 5%…
Check Point Software Technologies fell nearly 9% on July 31 after its Q2 results disappointed, and the post-earnings analyst scramble has left the Street more divided than it was heading into the print. The options…
Yum! Brands delivered its Q2 results on July 30 and the short sellers who had been building into the print spent the week heading for the exit — but the stock's muted reaction and a fresh analyst nudge from RBC tell a…
WCC delivered a sharp post-earnings pop this week, with the stock jumping more than 11% on July 30 after its Q2 print, and analysts wasted no time raising the bar further. The earnings reaction was the week's defining…
