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Bill Gates spent $241 million buying Republic Services shares between August 28 and September 2, filings show. He bought across 14 transactions in just six days, adding roughly 1.1 million shares to his already large…
Short sellers made bold moves this week. GameStop posted the most striking shift among large-cap names, with SI % of free float jumping from 0.22% to 6.70% in seven days. The stock's short interest had drifted near…
The dominant story this week is a clean split in sector sentiment. Industrials ETFs shed $2.4B in net outflows over seven days, making it the worst-performing sector by a wide margin. That reversal is sharp. Over three…
Micron Technology reports after the close today, and the setup is rich with data. Taiwan's August export orders hit a record $103 billion, the largest August total since records began in 1984 and nearly double the…
Options markets are flashing bullish signals across semiconductors and metals this week, with ORTEX data showing the largest positive bets concentrated in high-momentum names. Micron Technology tops the leaderboard for…
GNRC short interest fell sharply last week. Bears who had been building positions through mid-September covered hard, dropping SI 15.5% in seven days to 4.24% of the free float. That reverses some, but not all, of the…
Micron Technology tops the bill today. The chipmaker reports after the close, with investors watching closely for memory demand signals amid a record run in Taiwan's export orders. Taiwan's total export orders hit…
The most striking call of the session came on FICO. Analysts issued multiple rating changes and slashed the consensus target price to $1,299 from $1,435, a drop of nearly 10%. Two sells now appear in the consensus…
Insiders at some of the world's largest technology companies filed a wave of significant share sales in early September, with MSFT and NVDA dominating the leaderboard. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella sold over $65m worth…
Short interest in LCID surged this week. Bears pushed SI to 58.5% of free float, up from 50.4% just seven days ago. That is an 8-point jump in one week, placing Lucid among the fastest-rising short targets of the…
Pershing Square Inc. fell 9.5% on September 29, its sharpest single-day drop in months. The lending market remains severely stressed, even as a brief flicker of availability returns. Yesterday's previous convergence…
Three distinct signals are converging on ARX today. They point in different directions, and that tension is the story. TD Cowen's Andrew Kligerman downgraded Accelerant Holdings to Hold this morning, cutting his price…
Bending Spoons has seen its lending pool effectively drain over the past week. Availability has collapsed to 0.38%, leaving fewer than four shares available for every thousand already borrowed. The cost to borrow has…
Retail investors are circling O at its lowest price in a year. Wikipedia views and ORTEX stock page traffic have hit 3.25 standard deviations above the 90-day average, a level that typically marks peak curiosity rather…
Jefferies downgraded RBLX to Underperform on September 28 with a $38 price target. The stock closed at $41.18 on September 29, down 17.4% on the week. October 30 earnings are now 30 days away. The Jefferies cut is the…
Three distinct data streams are pointing in the same direction on HAL heading into October earnings. Options positioning is at its most bullish in 20 months. The cost to borrow has crashed to near zero. And retail…
The lending pool for TM has contracted dramatically over the past two weeks. Availability has fallen to 12.4%, meaning roughly one share remains available for every eight already borrowed. At the same time, Toyota's…
Why this matters: CarMax reported on September 29. Short sellers were already exiting at pace beforehand. Options traders were braced for trouble. Now the data shows what both camps got right, and what they got…
A Citigroup downgrade to Sell lands just as short sellers accelerate their exit from MRNA, creating an unusual split signal: one major bank is turning bearish on a stock that the shorts who know it best are quietly…
Micron Technology reports Q4 2026 results today after the close. It is the single most watched print of the week. The stock is up 269% year-to-date. Its ORTEX stock score sits at 96.85. Options traders have loaded the…
