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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…
Activist fund Corvex Management filed disclosures showing it sold $202.8 million worth of ILMN shares across 40 transactions, with trades running from early September and reported to regulators on 4 September 2026. The…
Short sellers are pressing harder on a handful of US names. The data shows two clear stories: extreme pressure on a struggling chipmaker and fresh bets against an AI cloud darling. WOLF (Wolfspeed) sits at 85.6% SI %…
China and Taiwan dominated the week's ETF flows, pulling in the largest hauls of any geography as money rotated hard into Asia while Europe bled cash and sector bets turned sharply in favour of tech. China topped…
TSLA is today's defining story. The company reports Q3 2026 results after markets close. German car registrations, which ORTEX measures as a leading indicator for Tesla revenue with a 43-day lead, are running 269%…
TSLA reports Q3 results today. Options activity around the print is the day's defining story. German car registrations, a dataset ORTEX measures as a leading indicator for Tesla revenue, are running 269% above the same…
TSLA kicks off earnings season today, reporting Q3 2026 results. German car registration data, a leading indicator for Tesla revenue, is running 269% above the same quarter last year. That reading points to strong…
Northrop Grumman earned the day's most notable upgrade. Analysts lifted it from Hold to Buy, pushing the consensus target to $629.83. That is up from $620.25 before the change. Defense spending remains strong and…
The most notable open-market buy in the latest filing data came from UBER. Andrew Gordon MacDonald, President and COO, filed on September 8 that he purchased 54,325 shares for roughly $4.1 million on September 4. That…
Short sellers added to positions in CoreWeave at the fastest pace among large-cap US names this week. SI % of FF rose 3.7 percentage points to 23.7% in seven days. The AI cloud company has become a fresh target as debt…
TSLA and META both report Q3 2026 results this evening. The two prints land on the same day, a rare double from the market's most-watched growth names. Tesla carries the sharper setup. ORTEX alt data tracking German…
TSLA dominates options attention today. The stock reports Q3 2026 results this evening. Musk confirmed Tesla-SpaceX merger committees in pre-market, sending both names trending hard. Taiwan export orders surged 69%…
TSLA and META both report Q3 results today after the close. It is a rare double from two of the market's most-watched names. Tesla is the sharper focus. ORTEX alt data tracking German car registrations, a dataset that…
Taiwan's export orders totalled TWD 36,223 hundred million in September 2026. That is 69% above September 2025. The figure, drawn from Taiwan's official export-order register, is the headline read on global technology…
Analysts are lifting targets across the energy sector. Two refining giants drew the most attention Wednesday. Valero Energy saw its consensus target price rise to $419.42, up from $412.21. That is a $7 jump in a single…
The most notable open-market purchase filed in September came from UBER. President and COO Andrew Gordon MacDonald bought 54,325 shares at $75.65 each. That amounts to roughly $4.1 million and was filed on September 8.…
Short sellers added to bets against CRWV at the fastest pace among large-cap US names last week. Short interest as a percentage of free float climbed 3.1 points to 22.2% between 12 and 19 October. The AI infrastructure…
Taiwan export orders surged 69% year-on-year in September 2026. That number helps explain one of the week's most striking signals: ETF investors are piling into Asia's tech heartland at a pace that stands out even…
Tesla reports Q3 results today, and the macro backdrop is striking. German car registrations, an ORTEX alt-data series measured to lead Tesla revenue by 43 days, are running 269% above the same quarter last year across…
Earnings season is driving a sharp divide in options sentiment across US equities. ORTEX data shows stocks heading into results attracting opposite flows, with call-heavy positioning on industrial names and defensive…
