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Analysts Cut Nike, Lift Datadog and AbbVie

Wall Street turned bearish on NKE Monday. The consensus on Nike was downgraded, with the average analyst target price slipping to $50.66 from $51.00. The move pushes the buy/hold/sell split to 3/24/12 — one of the more…

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Execs Sell Big as Buyers Emerge

Corporate insiders filed a flurry of notable trades this week. Sellers dominated the headlines. Charles Schwab's founder and co-chairman, Charles R. Schwab, disclosed $15.2M in sales of SCHW stock. Two separate…

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VERX Bears Retreat as Borrow Costs Hit Record Low

Three signals are now moving in the same direction on VERX. Short sellers are covering, borrow costs have collapsed, and yet options traders just printed the most defensive read in months. The data points don't fully…

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Palantir Leads AI Earnings Charge

Palantir is the story of the morning. The stock is up 16% in premarket trading after blowout Q2 earnings. CEO Alex Karp used the results to attack rival AI labs, calling them too focused on open-source idealism over…

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Cigna Falls, ON Semi Rises in Analyst Reshuffle

Analysts are moving fast on August 4. Three notable downgrades and one meaningful upgrade are shifting the landscape across healthcare, retail, and semiconductors. ON Semiconductor claimed the day's top upgrade.…

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Schwab Founder, Tenet Chiefs Cash Out

Insiders at two major US companies filed significant sell transactions last week, with the filings landing in close succession across the brokerage and healthcare sectors. Charles Schwab, founder and co-chairman of…

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Bears Tighten Grip on HTZ and LCID

Short sellers are hunting two high-profile names hard. HTZ tops the most-shorted list with 80.9% of free float sold short. Availability has fallen to zero. There are simply no more shares to borrow. LCID is not far…

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Tech Dominates, Asia Surges This Week

Information Technology pulled in $13B this week. That is the single biggest sector story. It dwarfs every other sector combined. Yet over three months, the picture is even larger — Tech has absorbed $77.5B. The buying…

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TLRY Borrow Pool Near Empty as Call Buyers Pile In

TLRY is flashing a rare split signal. The lending market is near its tightest point on record — yet options traders are flooding into calls, not puts. Availability has fallen to just 3.5% — meaning roughly one share…

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ANET Earnings Day: Analysts and Options Align Bullish

Arista Networks reports after the close today. The data going in tells one clear story: bulls are in control. Six firms raised price targets on ANET in July alone. Needham lifted its target to $200 on July 22. Wells…

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Earnings Blitz Dominates as Palantir Soars

Earnings season is running at full speed today. Palantir is the headline act after smashing Q2 expectations. The stock jumped nearly 15% after hours. Analysts raced to raise targets — consensus now sits at $185.68.…

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Earnings Heat Drives Options Signals

Earnings season is shaping options flow across energy, chips, and speculative names this week. PBF Energy stands out as one of the strongest options signals. The refiner carries an RSI of 75 and is up 167% year to…

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e.l.f. Beauty Heads Into Earnings With Shorts Retreating Fast

ELF reports its latest quarterly results on August 5 against a backdrop of rapidly unwinding short pressure and a wave of analyst upgrades — a combination that sets a notably different tone from the bearish positioning…

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EchoStar Back at the Table — Now as a Bankruptcy Story

EchoStar returns to the reporting window on August 7, three days after the most consequential print in its recent history — and the question now is not whether the bear thesis was right, but what comes next for a…

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Lucky Cement Lags Peers Ahead of August 7 Print

Lucky Cement heads into its August 7 earnings release trailing the broader Pakistani cement sector by a notable margin — and the question is whether the upcoming print can close that gap. The price action tells the…

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VOYG Bears Circle as Stock Rockets 14% Ahead of Earnings

Voyager Technologies heads into today's earnings print as one of the most contentious setups in the aerospace and defense space — a heavily shorted stock that just erupted 14% higher in a single session. Short sellers…

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Ibotta Heads Into Q2 Print Down 31% With Bears Dug In

IBOTTA arrives at its August 5 earnings report carrying a 31% loss over the past month, 13% short interest, and a CEO who has been selling shares throughout the slide. The most striking feature of the setup is the…

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