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The most notable discretionary buy in the latest filings came from UBER. Andrew Gordon MacDonald, President and COO, filed on September 8 disclosing he purchased 54,325 shares on September 4 for roughly $4.1 million. A…
Short sellers have been busy over the past week. The most striking move came in MMED, where short interest as a percentage of free float jumped 9.5 percentage points to nearly 80% of FF in just seven days. That puts…
Active ETFs are the clearest signal of the week. They pulled in $78.7B in net flows over seven days, with a flow imbalance of 85.2. That is the strongest buying pressure of any strategy category. Over three months,…
Q3 earnings season opens this week with a full slate. PepsiCo reports Thursday before the bell, with investors watching whether record US payrolls are feeding through to staples pricing. September nonfarm payrolls hit…
Earnings season is back, and options markets are showing it. Put activity is heavy across the semiconductor space, with Micron, Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices all topping the negative bets leaderboard over the past…
The week's most time-sensitive events hit tomorrow. Levi Strauss posts Q3 results after the close on Wednesday, October 7. Constellation Brands holds its Q2 2027 earnings call the same morning. Thursday brings the…
Rothschild & Co initiated coverage of both LMT and NOC at Buy on Tuesday, setting targets of $650 and $680 respectively. The dual initiation points to renewed institutional appetite for US defence names after months of…
Bill Gates spent $927 million buying shares in RSG between August 10 and September 2, filings show. The Gates Foundation made 65 separate open-market purchases totalling 4.2 million shares. The buying spree was…
JP Morgan upgraded BBD to Overweight on 6 October, reversing its own November 2024 downgrade. The stock has responded sharply, up 18.6% on the day and 29.3% over the past week. JP Morgan's move from Neutral back to…
Short sellers stepped up pressure on MMED and CHWY in the week to October 5, with both names posting sharp rises in short interest. MiniMed Group saw its short interest jump 9.5 percentage points in seven days. It now…
Micron Technology has cleared its Q4 fiscal 2026 earnings hurdle and the market's attention now shifts to what the print actually confirmed, how positioning has responded, and where the stock sits headed into…
AMZN enters the final stretch before its October 29 Q3 report with the short side still quiet, institutional money still adding, and a Street consensus that has barely budged from the bullish extreme documented last…
IREN enters October with the lending market showing its first signs of genuine relief after a brutal September squeeze, yet short interest remains at 27.7% of free float and the stock is still sliding. The most notable…
PTC has handed analysts one of the more uncomfortable weeks in recent memory. Seven firms moved on the stock in two days. Six of them downgraded it. The stock rose 38% in that same window. On October 5, six firms cut…
MRNA has added another 3% this week, closing Monday at $203.21, and the gap between where the stock is trading and where the Street says it should be has widened to a level that now defines the entire investment…
JSW is now down 16% over the past month and trading at PLN 30.94, slipping further below the PLN 31 floor that appeared to be forming after the H1 2026 earnings selloff. The most striking development this week is not…
Rezolve AI reported on October 6 and the stock has bounced 8% to $2.23, yet the short interest register has barely flinched, which is the most telling fact about where this name stands right now. The post-earnings…
The dominant story today is AI infrastructure spending. Lambda, a so-called AI neocloud, is raising $4 billion in a final funding round before a planned IPO, according to the Wall Street Journal. That news lifted…
Semiconductor stocks are drawing the heaviest bullish options bets in the US market this week. Micron Technology and NVIDIA sit at the top of the ORTEX positive options bets ranking over the past seven days. Both…
Q3 earnings season kicks off in earnest this week. The big names arrive Thursday and Friday. PEP reports Q3 results Wednesday morning. Analysts will watch volume trends closely. US nonfarm payrolls hit a record 159…
