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Analyst activity on 23 October centred on two names: TSLA and META. RBC Capital's Tom Narayan maintained a Buy on Tesla with a $480 price target. The broader consensus shifted too, with multiple changes pushing the…
NVIDIA director Mark Stevens filed sales worth more than $480M across a cluster of transactions on 31 August and 2 September, with filings reported to regulators on 2 September. The tranches ranged from $30M to $98M in…
CoreWeave has become one of the more watched names in the short seller community. Its short interest hit 24.1% of free float on 21 October. That is up nearly 4 percentage points in a single week. Cost to borrow remains…
China topped the global geography table this week, pulling in a net $12.0B in the past seven days. That is the single biggest country flow of the week. Taiwan added $5.6B, with a flow imbalance of 96.4, meaning almost…
The loudest story tonight is TSLA. SpaceX confirmed that any potential combination with Tesla would require approval from its special committee, board and controlling shareholder. That statement arrived alongside a…
Options traders are positioning defensively ahead of a packed earnings week. The clearest signal came from MRTN. Its put/call ratio hit 0.46 on Thursday, a reading 4.3 standard deviations above its 20-day average of…
Today brings results from DOW and SEB, while Schindler reports from Switzerland. The week quickly escalates from there. Wednesday sees Coca-Cola and S&P Global open their books before the market. Centene also reports…
Barclays is the analyst house to watch today. Ross Sandler raised his META target from $780 to $880, a $100 jump, while keeping a Buy rating. That new target sits well above the current consensus average of $833. On…
The most striking insider activity in recent filings centres on two names sitting at opposite ends of the conviction spectrum. NVIDIA director Mark A. Stevens filed in early September, disclosing he sold more than…
CoreWeave saw the biggest short interest jump among US stocks with market caps above $500m this week. SI as a percentage of free float climbed to 24.1%, up from 20.4% seven days earlier. That 3.7 percentage point rise…
Earnings season delivered sharp moves across sectors on Thursday. Norfolk Southern beat expectations as a tighter trucking market pushed rail demand higher. Texas Instruments Q3 results prompted a round of analyst…
Options traders showed sharp conviction across two names on Thursday, with WFRD and NTRS generating the most unusual flow of the session. Weatherford International call options surged after the oilfield services firm…
Earnings season hits full stride this week. Dow Inc. reports today, kicking off a stretch of major industrials results. In Europe, Sartorius Stedim Biotech and Schindler Holding both post numbers today. Skandinaviska…
Taiwan export orders reached $114.2bn in September 2026, up 62% on the same month a year earlier. That is the largest September in the dataset since records began in 1984, according to Taiwan's Ministry of Economic…
IBM led the positive analyst moves today. The consensus target rose to $252 from $243. That follows strong quarterly results and reflects growing confidence in the company's AI software push. Texas Instruments also…
Elon Musk has made a $1 billion personal investment in SKYD, David Ellison's Skydance Corporation, according to a Semafor exclusive published Thursday. The move adds another high-profile name to Skydance's cap table…
Short interest in CRWV jumped 3.67 percentage points in seven days. The AI cloud firm now has 24.1% of its free float sold short. Bears are building fast. LCID sits at 64.3% of free float sold short. That rose 1.7…
Taiwan's $114.2B record September export orders are showing up in ETF flows. Asia is pulling in institutional money at a pace that overshadows almost every other geographic theme right now. The US remains the biggest…
Comcast landed the sharpest corporate headline of the morning. The media group said it expects a significant restructuring charge in Q4 as it redesigns its organisation. The announcement hit alongside a broader…
Options sentiment turned defensive on Thursday as Middle East tensions rattled markets and chip stocks faced a second wave of selling pressure. SPY futures dropped in early trade, with S&P 500 puts dominating flow. The…
