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The most striking cluster in recent filings comes from Li Ning, the Chinese sportswear group. Viva China Holdings, the founder-controlled vehicle of Li Ning himself, filed purchases totalling over $160m across five…
Short sellers stepped up pressure on CoreWeave this week. SI as a percentage of free float climbed to 24.8%, up from 21.2% a week ago, a rise of 3.6 percentage points. Morgan Stanley cut its price target on the AI…
RingCentral is up 15% in premarket trade this Friday. The software stock has now gained 185% year-to-date. ORTEX data puts its short score at 47, meaning a meaningful bearish base remains exposed to further squeezes.…
Options sentiment turned sharply positive in tech this week. Centene topped ORTEX's seven-day options score table, but the most telling flows sit elsewhere. RingCentral jumped 15% in premarket trade on Friday. The…
Today American Express reports before US markets open. The $220bn card giant is the first major S&P 500 financials name to print this week. Oilfield services group SLB also posts today. Europe is equally busy. Safran,…
Taiwan's export order machine hit a level not seen since records began in 1984. Total orders reached $114.2bn in September, according to Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs, surpassing the previous September record…
Analyst target prices moved sharply higher for a cluster of industrial and transport names on Friday, with rails, defence and equipment rental all seeing consensus upgrades. LMT received the biggest consensus bump of…
ORTEX insider momentum data flags a wave of selling across large-cap US stocks over the past three months. AppLovin, Meta Platforms, Dell Technologies, The Charles Schwab Corporation, Datadog, and Quanta Services all…
Chewy remains the most shorted large-cap name in US markets. Short interest sits at 88.6% of free float. That figure did ease slightly this week, down from 92.2% seven days ago, a modest retreat that still leaves…
China topped the geography leaderboard this week. ETFs focused on the country took in $12.0B net, with a flow imbalance of 76, well into buying-pressure territory. That makes it the single biggest regional winner over…
European earnings dominate the morning. Safran, the French aerospace group valued at $141bn, reports today alongside Air Liquide, Vinci and Dassault Aviation. Swiss dermatologist Galderma also posts results. The…
Earnings season and a looming index shake-up are pushing options activity into names that rarely top the flow tables. KVUE faces the sharpest structural pressure. ORTEX Index Rebalance Radar puts a 93% probability on…
Today brings a busy slate of confirmed earnings. Safran, the French aerospace group with a $141bn market cap, reports this morning alongside fellow Paris-listed names Air Liquide, Vinci and Dassault Aviation. Swiss…
Lockheed Martin led the day's upgrades. Analysts lifted the consensus target to $625.52, up from $618.86. The defence group has benefited from elevated global spending, and bulls outnumber bears 12 to 1 among covering…
The most striking insider buying in recent filings comes from outside the US. Ma Jianrong, Executive Chairman of Shenzhou International Group, filed a cluster of open-market purchases totalling roughly $45m across four…
Short sellers added to positions in CoreWeave this week. Short interest hit 24.1% of free float, up 3.7 percentage points in seven days. The AI cloud infrastructure firm has attracted growing skepticism despite its…
The chip sector is at the centre of both the options market and the short seller community this week. NVIDIA carries the heaviest combined positive and negative options bets among US large caps. Its RSI sits at 47.9,…
Semiconductor stocks dominate both sides of the options ledger this week. Micron Technology and NVIDIA show the heaviest combined positive and negative bets over the past seven days. The flows reflect genuine two-way…
Taiwan's export order data, published by the Ministry of Economic Affairs, delivered a result that stands above anything in the series' history. Total orders reached $114.2bn in September 2026. The previous best…
Today brings a clutch of major European earnings. Safran, the French aerospace group worth $146bn, reports this morning. So does Air Liquide, one of Europe's biggest industrial groups at $124bn. Swiss building…
