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The biggest macro signal right now is in the bond market. US 10-year Treasury yields hit their highest level since 2002 this week. That move is pushing options traders toward rate-sensitive plays across equities. The…
NIKE fires the starting gun on Q3 earnings season today. The apparel giant hosts its Q1 FY2027 earnings call at 5pm ET. Investors want answers on tariff exposure and consumer spending trends. The week builds from…
Mizuho analyst John Roberts trimmed targets across three names on Thursday. Albemarle fell to a $130 target from $140, with the rating staying at Hold. Dow Inc. also drew a lower target, cut to $32 from $35. Both sit…
UBER President and COO Andrew Gordon MacDonald filed two open-market purchases on September 8, together worth roughly $5.3 million. The trades, executed on September 4 at prices around $75 to $76 per share, are…
NKE is the standout mover this week. Short interest in Nike plummeted 82% in seven days, falling to just 0.49% of float ahead of the company's upcoming earnings. That is a sharp capitulation by bears. Availability sits…
Rezolve AI arrives at its October 6 earnings print in a position that has deteriorated since the last notes were filed: the stock has fallen another 7% from the $2.34 level cited a week ago, short interest remains…
The semiconductor story running through every corner of the market got bigger today. A new analysis puts NVDA, AMD, AVGO, MU, MRVL, and ARM at the centre of an AI chip boom that analysts say is still accelerating. The…
Micron Technology sits at the top of both bullish and bearish options flow rankings this week. The memory chip maker drew the largest volume of positive bets over seven days. Yet negative bets are equally heavy,…
NIKE fires the starting gun on the new earnings season today. The sportswear giant reports Q1 2027 results after the close, with an earnings call at 5pm Eastern. It is the most high-profile print of the week. The rest…
Taiwan's export order machine ran hotter in August than at any point in its recorded history. The Ministry of Economic Affairs reported total export orders of $103.0bn for the month. That figure beat the previous…
Analysts trimmed target prices on JBL today, pulling the consensus to $425. The contract manufacturer carries a $30bn market cap and short interest of just 2.8% of free float. The cuts come despite broader electronics…
An NVDA board member filed sales totalling roughly $410 million in early September, making it one of the largest recent insider disposals in US markets. Mark A. Stevens, an independent director at NVIDIA Corporation,…
Short sellers have stepped up bets across several mid-cap names this week, according to ORTEX data for the period to 30 September. MMED stands out as the week's biggest mover among large stocks. Short interest in…
The dominant story in ETF flows this week is simple: money is leaving technology and parking in almost everything else. US-listed ETFs absorbed a net $39.0B over the past week. That is the single largest geographic…
First Horizon Corporation has attracted competing pre-earnings bets. Shorts have rebuilt positions, options traders have swung call-heavy, and two analysts have trimmed targets in 48 hours. The sharpest development of…
Short sellers added heavily to positions in NSC over the past week. The increase is sharp and worth watching. The lending market, however, tells a different story. Estimated short interest in Norfolk Southern rose 34%…
Taiwan's August export orders hit $103 billion, the largest August figure since records began in 1984. That is up 71% from the previous August best of $60.1 billion set in 2025. The reading runs through everything this…
Semiconductor names led options activity on Thursday. Markets took cues from improving US-Iran diplomatic signals. Chip stocks pulled off early lows. That shift rewired positioning across the options market. Micron…
Today's calendar is light but pointed. McCormick kicks things off this morning, reporting Q3 2026 results at 9:30am ET. The spice maker's print comes as US nonfarm payrolls hit a record 159 million in August,…
BMO Capital cut SGML to Market Perform on Thursday, setting a $10 target against a stock already down 23% in September. Short interest rose 30% in a week to 3.3% of free float. The two signals are pointing in the same…
