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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…
Today brings a broad sweep of confirmed earnings. Swedbank reports this morning, one of the largest Nordic banks at $44.8bn market cap. Sandvik also posts today. In Europe, Schindler and Rentokil Initial are out…
Analysts raised their consensus target price on IBM to $252.09 from $243.09 this week. That is a $9 jump and the sharpest single-week move among the large-cap names in the latest round of changes. The stock carries a…
Open-market insider data from the vendor table covers trades filed through 8 September 2026. The SEC EDGAR first-party tables were not accessible in this session, limiting granularity on C-level names and 10b5-1 flags…
Short sellers added aggressively to CoreWeave positions this week. Short interest hit 24.1% of free float on October 21, up 3.7 percentage points in just seven days. The AI cloud computing firm carries a $28.5bn market…
The biggest headline this morning is Anthropic. The AI lab, backed by AMZN and GOOGL, could file IPO paperwork as soon as Friday. The timing puts it squarely ahead of a packed earnings week. Markets are already pricing…
Semiconductor stocks are pulling the most options attention this week. Micron Technology sits at an options negative bets lead, with bearish flow outweighing bullish across the seven-day window. The stock carries an…
The week's biggest print lands Tuesday after the close. MSFT reports on October 28, with GOOGL following the same day. Together the two carry a combined market cap above $5.9 trillion. APH and CDNS also step up…
Taiwan's export order register posted its biggest September since data collection began in 1984. Orders totalled $114.2bn in September 2026, up 62% on the same month a year earlier, according to Taiwan's Ministry of…
Wall Street lifted price targets across several sectors on Thursday, with airlines, biotech and financial names drawing the most attention. United Airlines saw the biggest consensus target move in the airline space.…
Uber's President and COO Andrew Gordon MacDonald filed disclosures on 8 September showing he bought 70,000 shares across two open-market purchases on 4 September, paying just over $5.3M in total. That is a clean…
Short sellers pushed hard into CoreWeave last week. The AI cloud infrastructure firm saw its short interest jump 3.66 percentage points in seven days to 23.7% of free float. That is the biggest week-on-week move among…
Taiwan and South Korea are pulling in money at a pace not seen in years. In the past week alone, Taiwan-focused ETFs attracted $7.5B in net inflows, with a flow imbalance of 96.7 out of 100. South Korea added $9.1B.…
Tesla is the day's most-discussed name. Cybercab deliveries before year-end are now a firm commitment, though Elon Musk says the vast majority of the fleet will stay Tesla-owned rather than reach private customers.…
Options flow in the semiconductor space has turned decisively bearish over the past week. Micron Technology, NVIDIA, and Advanced Micro Devices sit at the top of the negative bets table by dollar value. All three carry…
Over 1,200 companies report this week. Today kicks things off with Roche posting results. The Swiss pharma giant carries a $379bn market cap. Rentokil Initial and Sasol also report today. Thursday brings the most…
Analyst target price revisions are broad across sectors today, but two upgrades stand out for the divergence they signal. UAL received a consensus target price lift to $152.52, up fractionally from $152.48. The airline…
The most striking open-market buy in the recent filing window came from Kenneth Dart, the billionaire main shareholder of EVO. Filings reported on 26 August showed he bought more than $715m worth of Evolution AB shares…
Short sellers are actively adding to positions in several US names this week. CoreWeave stands out as the most notable new mover. Its short interest climbed to 23.7% of free float by 20 October, up 2.6 percentage…
Bears are adding to short positions in chip stocks even as the sector bounced Wednesday. NVDA, AMD and MU top the negative options flow table by volume over the past seven days. The backdrop makes the positioning hard…
