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AEP Upgrades Flood In After Q1 Beat

American Electric Power enters the week after Q1 earnings with analysts openly competing to raise their targets — the clearest sign in months that the Street's long-standing caution on the utility is finally…

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MFA takes a sharp knock while the Street holds its nerve

MFA Financial dropped 6% on Tuesday and ended the week down more than 7% to $9.55 — a notable single-day move for a mortgage REIT with a market cap of roughly $1 billion. The stock now trades well below the lowest…

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Trader NoteAMZN

Street Upgrades Carry AMZN Past $273 — Next Stop May 20

Amazon heads into its Q1 2026 earnings call on May 20 with the strongest analyst tailwind in recent memory, a 30% stock rebound off its April lows, and options traders rotating firmly into calls — making this one of…

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Allstate Analysts Lift Targets After Earnings Beat

ALL enters a quiet stretch before its May 22 earnings call with something rare in a sector under macro scrutiny: a stock that has actually worked and a broker consensus that is being revised upward. Options positioning…

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Pershing Square USA IPO Delivers 36% Pop on Debut

Pershing Square Inc. lit up NYSE on May 1, closing at $37.99 after a 35.7% single-day gain — the debut pop from Bill Ackman's long-awaited closed-end fund IPO, which raised roughly $5 billion and marks one of the…

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MOVE Shorts Build Fast as Borrow Costs Bite

MOVE enters May with a striking disconnect: the stock has rallied 44% over the past month, yet short sellers are piling in at the fastest pace of the recent period — and borrowing remains extraordinarily expensive. The…

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KWM Shorts Pile In as Borrow Market Tightens

K Wave Media enters May with a striking contradiction: the stock rallied 38% in a single week, yet short sellers tripled their positions in the same stretch. The short interest story here is the one that demands…

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BPAC Shorts Spike as SingAuto Merger Takes Shape

BPAC entered the week defined by a single catalyst: a confirmed merger agreement with SingAuto, the Singapore-based automotive platform that will serve as the SPAC's target. The deal is the lens through which…

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Skycorp Solar shorts evaporate as M&A news hits

PN heads into the first week of May with a remarkable story unfolding across its lending market, its capital structure, and its corporate pipeline — all at once. The most striking data point this week is the near-total…

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CJMB borrow costs stay elevated as short sellers retreat

Callan JMB Inc. enters the new week with a striking split between a tightening borrow market and a short position that has been actively cut — a tension worth unpacking for anyone watching this micro-cap logistics…

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Trader NoteNCT

NCT: Short sellers retreat as stock surges 64% in a month

NCT, the Cayman-registered marine transport micro-cap, has spent the past week unwinding what was a savage short squeeze — and the stock has rewarded bulls with a 14% gain over the five sessions to Friday's close of…

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KAPA shorts cover hard as May earnings loom

Kairos Pharma heads into its May 13 earnings print with short sellers beating a notable retreat — and the lending market loosening to match. Short interest has fallen nearly half over the past month. It dropped 27% in…

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XHLD Borrow Costs Ease as Stock Sells Off

TEN Holdings, Inc. enters May with a striking paradox: the stock shed nearly 16% across the week while its borrow market materially loosened — an unusual combination that defines the current setup. The most notable…

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SUGP shorts retreat sharply as borrow costs remain elevated

SU Group Holdings Limited enters May with a striking divergence: short sellers have been rapidly covering, yet the cost to borrow remains extraordinarily high for a stock this size. Short interest has more than halved…

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