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The week that matters most to US financials is here. Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, and Citigroup all report in the days ahead. Options traders are already positioned across the sector. Delta Air Lines posts Q3 numbers on…
Bank earnings kick off the week, and options traders are already positioning hard. Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, and Citigroup all report in the days ahead. That earnings corridor is drawing heavy options flow across…
Today brings the first results of this earnings season. Constellation Brands held its Q2 2027 earnings call this morning. Levi Strauss reports Q3 figures after the close, a read on consumer spending under…
Wall Street's most notable moves today cut across materials, chips, and pharma. Both VMC and MLM saw consensus target prices trimmed. Vulcan Materials fell to $315.22 average from $317.00. Martin Marietta slipped to…
MMED heads into its October 9 earnings report with one of the most constrained borrow markets on Nasdaq and a short position that has nearly tripled in six weeks. The lending market tells the starkest part of the…
WS enters its fiscal Q1 2027 earnings release today with a notably divergent picture: retail attention has surged to extreme levels, while the borrowing market remains among the most relaxed in the sector. The…
Penguin Solutions reports after the close today with short sellers sitting on a high but retreating position as the stock charges into earnings on a month-long rally. The most striking dynamic in the setup is the…
Uber Technologies' President and Chief Operating Officer, Andrew Gordon MacDonald, filed a $4.1 million open-market purchase of UBER shares in early September. He paid roughly $75.65 per share for 54,325 shares. The…
Lamb Weston heads into its October 8 earnings report having jumped 10.7% on the week to $47.91, yet the options market has barely relaxed from its most defensive posture in a year. The stock's recovery since the…
HELE heads into its October 7 earnings release with bears maintaining a meaningful position even as the stock has shed 10% in the past week alone. Short interest is the clearest signal going into the print. Bears hold…
NEOG arrives at its October 7 earnings release with short interest off its recent peak, options skewing bullish, and a stock that fell 8% on Tuesday to $11.96. The short book has pulled back from where it was heading…
APOGEE heads into its October 9 earnings release with options positioning that has shifted dramatically, and unusually fast, in the two days ahead of the print. The clearest signal comes from the options market, where…
RPM International heads into its October 8 print with options traders at their most defensive in over a year, a sharp escalation from the already cautious positioning flagged in recent previews. The options signal has…
Short sellers turned more aggressive across several names last week, with MMED topping the weekly movers list. Short interest in MiniMed Group jumped 9.5 percentage points in seven days to nearly 80% of free float.…
Constellation Brands arrives at its October 7 print in a meaningfully different position than it occupied for the two prior previews: the stock has recovered to $115.67, up 2% on the day and 2.6% on the week, after…
Bond markets are setting the agenda. A sharp sell-off in US Treasuries is feeding through to junk-rated companies, with borrowing costs rising across corporate America. The French central bank governor warned that…
Bank earnings season kicks off this week, but the options market is pointing traders toward semiconductors rather than Wall Street. Micron Technology tops both the bullish and bearish bets lists over the past seven…
Earnings season kicks off in earnest this week. The calendar runs from today through Friday, with the biggest names arriving at the end. Levi Strauss opened proceedings today with its Q3 2026 call at 5pm ET.…
Two of the most-watched real-economy series hit all-time peaks in the most recent data. US nonfarm payrolls reached 159,044 thousand jobs in September 2026, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics dataset…
Analysts nudged up their target price for AMD to $636, from $629 previously. The chip giant carries a $1 trillion market cap and short interest of just 2.5% of free float. Broad buy-side support remains intact, with 43…
