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Insider filings from early September show a sharp split between conviction buying at the executive level and a major institutional stake unwind in Japan. The clearest cluster came from Hong Kong-listed Xinyi Glass…
MMED is the standout mover. Short interest hit 77.7% of free float, up from 28.1% just 30 days ago. That is a gain of nearly 50 percentage points. Shares to borrow are almost gone, with availability at just 1.5% of…
Fixed income is the story of the week. Bond ETFs pulled in $30.6B in net flows over the past seven days. That beats equity ETFs' $21.6B net intake. Over three months, equities still dominate with $474.7B in net flows,…
TSLA is the headline story today. The company beat Q3 delivery expectations, and analyst Gene Munster has since called it the start of something bigger, predicting Tesla will outrun traditional rivals. GM and Ford face…
Semiconductor names are drawing the heaviest two-sided options bets of the week, while biotech catches a sudden fear-driven bid after reports of plague cases linked to Russia. MU tops ORTEX options flow rankings on…
The earnings calendar gets busier from Tuesday, with a mix of consumer, industrial and airline names reporting through to Friday. No IPOs are scheduled in the next seven days. APOG Apogee Enterprises kicks off…
Citigroup's Joanne Wuensch made a flurry of medical device calls on Monday. She trimmed targets on three names while lifting JNJ to a $303 price target from $298, maintaining a Buy. Boston Scientific and GE HealthCare…
Bill Gates filed purchases of RSG (Republic Services) worth more than $170m in aggregate over the first three days of September, filings reported on 3 September showed. Gates holds a major stake in the waste-management…
Short sellers are piling into a handful of names with nowhere left to hide. WOLF leads the board. Its short interest sits at 80.4% of free float, with zero shares available to borrow. Bears have effectively cornered…
NKE enters the post-earnings week with shorts quietly retreating, borrow costs climbing, and a stock that has now lost 11% over the past month after a muted reaction to a deeply disappointing fiscal Q1 print. The most…
Rivian enters its Q3 results window on October 27 with a deteriorating price chart, a short book that has been quietly rebuilding, and a set of real-economy signals that offer little comfort on near-term demand. The…
CDR has ticked up another 3.6% on the week to PLN 253.5, continuing its quiet recovery, but the more notable move is in the borrow market, where borrowing costs have more than halved since last week and the short score…
MI enters its October 20 earnings date having shed 10% in a week, while a cluster of insider selling over the past three months raises questions about internal confidence at levels the stock has not tested since before…
SAIC heads into its November earnings with a notable shift underway: short sellers are quietly rebuilding positions while the options market has turned far less defensive than it was just weeks ago, leaving the stock's…
SoundHound AI enters October with the same basic tension that defined September: short interest locked near 43% of the free float, borrow availability at zero, and a stock that has now shed 15% over the past month to…
DNP enters the first week of October with the bears in retreat and the November 5 earnings date drawing closer, a combination that makes the current positioning picture worth reading carefully. The short-side easing…
PCVX heads into its November 4 earnings date with short sellers trimming positions, analyst conviction holding firm, and retail attention running at an unusually elevated level. Short interest, at 12.3% of free float,…
XP Inc. heads into the week of October 5 with its stock up 15% over the past month, options traders firmly in the bullish camp, and the Street upgrading its view, yet short sellers are quietly adding to positions even…
Modivo has printed its earnings and the dust is settling, but the short positioning that defined the pre-earnings setup has barely moved. The October 1 earnings release produced a modest 3.4% one-day gain, a sharp…
NVIDIA enters the final stretch before its November 25 earnings date with the stock up 4.3% on the week and institutional holders adding shares, even as the analyst gap between price and target remains the defining…
