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MELI's post-earnings reckoning

MercadoLibre enters this week's close with a bruising 13% drop behind it and a fresh wave of analyst downgrades still landing — an unusually compressed reset for a stock whose long-run bulls have long priced…

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PBD Borrow Costs Triple as Short Sellers Retreat

The PBD Invesco Global Clean Energy ETF heads into mid-May with a striking contradiction: short sellers are closing positions at pace, yet the cost to borrow has tripled in a week — a split signal that makes the…

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Trader NoteBWAY

BrainsWay Beats Q1, Holds Guidance — Investors Shrug

BWAY delivered a clean Q1 earnings beat on Tuesday, yet the stock ended the session slightly lower. That disconnect — good numbers, tepid price reaction — is the clearest tension heading into the rest of the week. Q1…

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UNG shorts retreat sharply as borrow costs ease

UNG, the United States Natural Gas Fund, enters mid-May with a notable unwinding of the bearish positioning that dominated April — short sellers have pulled back hard, and the borrow market has loosened…

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Siemens Beats on Q2 But Profit Miss Adds Complexity

SIE delivered its Q2 2026 results this morning, beating on revenue and EPS — but the headline that stuck was an 8% drop in quarterly profit, and the DAX's mixed reaction reflects that tension precisely. The operational…

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AVAV: Options Bulls Take Over as Shorts Trim into Earnings

AeroVironment enters the home stretch before its June 25 Q3 results with a striking divergence: options traders are the most bullish they have been in the past year, while short sellers — though still heavily…

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ALLT heads into earnings with Street turning more bullish

Allot Ltd. heads into its Q4 results — due after the close on May 14 — with the stock up 27% in a month and analysts lifting targets the morning before the print. The analyst angle is the most live story here. Needham…

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Leidos drops 16% as analysts slash targets post-earnings

LDOS heads into the week after its Q1 print badly bruised — down 16% over the past month and still digesting a brutal earnings reaction that sent analysts scrambling to reprice. The catalyst is hard to miss. On May 5,…

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Avis Budget Shorts Unwind After Pentwater's Exit

Avis Budget Group enters its May 20 earnings with one of the most dramatic short-interest unwinds of the year — yet the stock has still halved in a month, leaving shorts and bulls both nursing losses. Short interest…

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EPM shorts rebuild after earnings as peers sell off harder

Evolution Petroleum closed the week at $4.79, down 3.2% over five sessions, while posting a modest one-day gain of 0.2% on Tuesday. The more interesting story is under the hood: short sellers rebuilt positions sharply…

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Analysts hold their nerve, but targets drift lower on MA

Mastercard heads into the back half of May in a curious position: the stock has recovered to near flat on the year — up 0.5% on the week to $499.81 — yet the analyst community has spent the past fortnight quietly…

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Silver surges 19% — shorts cover, calls dominate

SLV, the iShares Silver Trust, delivered one of its sharpest weekly gains of the year — up 19% in five sessions to close around $78.55, extending a 14% rise over the past month. The most striking feature of this week's…

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USO borrow market stays fully tapped as oil bounces hard

USO — the United States Oil Fund — had an unusual week. The fund jumped 4.1% on Tuesday alone and is up more than 15% from a month ago, yet short interest climbed 11% over the same five sessions. The lending pool is…

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JP Morgan cuts Duke as CEO sells and shorts rebuild

Duke Energy enters the week caught between two uncomfortable signals: the CEO just made his largest open-market sale of the year, and JP Morgan cut its price target the same day, citing a postponed North Carolina…

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WDO Shorts Keep Building After Record Q1

Wesdome Gold Mines posted a record earnings quarter — and shorts are paying for the privilege of betting against it. The stock surged 26.8% this week to CAD 30.02, driven by a Q1 print that showed adjusted EPS of…

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Analysts Back ET as Short Sellers Rebuild

Energy Transfer LP arrives at the midpoint of May with an unusual combination: a rush of analyst target upgrades on one side, and a meaningful jump in short interest on the other. The Street has moved quickly in the…

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