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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…
Bearish options bets are heaviest in semiconductors this week. NVDA, AMD and MU top the negative options flow table by volume over the past seven days, even as chip stocks staged a partial rebound on Wednesday. CRWV…
Taiwan's export orders totalled $114.2bn in September 2026. That figure, from Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs, is up 62% on September last year. It is also the largest September reading since records began in…
More than 1,200 companies report this week. The volume spans every major region. Today brings a strong European opening. Roche ($377bn market cap) posts quarterly numbers this morning. Rentokil Initial and Ipsen also…
Brokers made a flurry of target price adjustments on Thursday, with cuts clustering in financials and logistics while utilities got modest bumps. Morgan Stanley trimmed SCHW to $132 from $141, keeping a Buy rating. The…
Uber Technologies' President and Chief Operating Officer Andrew Gordon MacDonald filed a disclosure showing he purchased $4.1 million worth of UBER shares on September 4, with the transaction reported on September 8.…
Short sellers have sharply increased bets against CHWY this month. Short interest as a percentage of free float stood at 89.2% on 20 October, up from around 66% at the start of the month. That is one of the largest…
The biggest money flow story this week is Asian tech. Taiwan ETFs pulled in $7.5B in just five days, with a flow imbalance of 96.7, meaning almost every dollar entering those funds was a buy. That follows ORTEX Alt…
TSLA dominated options flows on Wednesday as the company reported Q3 results after the close. The stock's earnings-night activity overshadowed the broader market. Tesla confirmed Q3 automotive gross margin of 18.1%…
Tesla reported Q3 2026 results after the close. Automotive gross margin came in at 18.1% on a non-GAAP basis, excluding regulatory credits. The company also confirmed that construction of its Austin AI compute facility…
Tesla reports Q3 earnings today. Options traders have been active all week. The stock is down 16.9% year-to-date, and analysts see only 6.5% upside from current levels. That muted consensus is drawing two-sided flow…
TSLA reports today, kicking off the busiest week of the auto earnings season. The $1.5 trillion EV maker carries just 2.6% short interest as a percentage of free float, suggesting bears are not heavily positioned into…
Wall Street turned cautious on several large-caps today. Morgan Stanley cut its target on SCHW from $141 to $132. The broker kept its Buy rating, but the trim signals unease after a period of strong share price…
Insider selling pressure has dominated filings over the past month, with tech names and Korean conglomerates leading the flow. Three stories stand out. CrowdStrike Holdings tops the US insider selling table. ORTEX data…
Short sellers stepped up pressure on CRWV this week. CoreWeave's short interest jumped 3.66 percentage points in seven days to 23.7% of free float. That is the biggest weekly rise among US stocks with a market cap…
TSLA is the story of the day. The EV maker reports Q3 2026 results tonight. Options markets are active, and the backdrop from real-economy data is striking. German car registrations, which ORTEX data shows lead Tesla…
TSLA reports Q3 2026 results today, and options markets are crackling. ORTEX data shows the stock is down 16.9% year-to-date. Days to cover stand at just 0.36, meaning short sellers are not the dominant force heading…
TSLA kicks off a packed earnings week today. The EV maker reports Q3 2026 results on Wednesday. German car registration data, a leading indicator for Tesla revenue, is running 269% above the same quarter last year.…
Taiwan's export order figures, published by the Ministry of Economic Affairs, delivered the sharpest year-on-year reading in the block. Total orders reached TWD 36,224 hundred million in September, up 69% on September…
Analyst desks were broadly active on Wednesday, with upgrades and rising price targets spread across financial services, defence, and healthcare. Northrop Grumman picked up a formal upgrade, pushing consensus to a more…
