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Bank of America's Vivek Arya raised his price target on AMD to $720, up sharply from $620. That is a 16% jump in target price. The Buy rating stays in place. AMD carries a $1 trillion market cap. Short interest sits at…
Insider filings reported through September 8 show a clear divide: C-suite buyers stepping in on weakness while sellers take profits at elevated prices. The standout buyer is Tung Ching Sai, CEO of 868 Xinyi Glass…
Short sellers turned aggressive this week across several high-profile names. MiniMed Group saw the sharpest move among sizeable stocks. Its short interest jumped nearly 30 percentage points in seven days. It now sits…
AGO is attracting attention from three directions at once. An analyst upgrade, a sharp drop in short positions, and record-low options bearishness landed on the same day — pointing in the same direction. Roth Capital's…
30-year Treasury yields broke above 5.5% today. That is the dominant macro story of the session. Rising long-end yields are pressuring valuations across growth and rate-sensitive sectors. Regional bank Park National…
Park National Corporation set off alarm bells in the options market Thursday. Its put/call ratio exploded to 1.17 — a 4.1 standard deviation spike from the 20-day average of just 0.16. That is the highest reading in 52…
Bank of America raised its price target on AMD to $720 from $620 on Thursday. Analyst Vivek Arya kept his Buy rating intact. The $100 jump is one of the largest single-day target moves in the chip sector this week. AMD…
UBER President and COO Andrew Gordon MacDonald put $5.3 million of his own money into the company's stock in early September. Filings disclosed September 8 show he made two separate open-market purchases. The larger…
Short sellers made notable moves this week. Data as of September 24 shows sharp swings across several names. CHWY saw the biggest squeeze signal of the week. Short interest dropped nearly 7 percentage points in seven…
US equity ETFs shed $55B in the past week. That is the single biggest story in fund flows right now. Over three months, the same US category pulled in $199B. The reversal is sharp, and it signals a meaningful near-term…
Why this matters: Short interest in the EWJ iShares MSCI Japan ETF surged 53% in a single week. Cost to borrow has nearly doubled over the past month. Options traders are loading puts at an elevated rate. Three signals…
Three separate ORTEX signals fired on KDK within hours. The lending market is the story. Availability has collapsed to 4.7% — fewer than five shares remain available for every hundred already borrowed. A week ago,…
TWLO has surged 35% in a month. Now Wall Street's most bearish voice on the stock is pushing back hard. HSBC analyst Stephen Bersey downgraded Twilio to Reduce on September 25, setting a $211 price target. The stock…
Why this matters: Three distinct signals converged on ENTX this week. The borrow market swung from near-zero availability to relative ease in days. Simultaneously, options traders made the sharpest shift toward calls…
FedEx is the standout story today. The logistics giant is down 16% over the past month. ORTEX data shows flows and positioning are now pointing in the opposite direction — short covering and accumulating call activity…
QSR is sending mixed signals. Argus Research just cut the stock to Hold. Yet short sellers are pulling back sharply, borrow costs have collapsed, and options traders are loading up on calls. Argus analyst John Staszak…
Bank of America's Vivek Arya raised his price target on AMD to $720 from $620 on Thursday. That $100 jump is the biggest single target move in today's analyst activity. AMD carries a $1 trillion market cap. Short…
The most striking filing from early September: Viva China Holdings — the vehicle controlled by sportswear founder Li Ning himself — bought over $77 million worth of Li Ning shares across four consecutive trading days…
Wall Street's most notable move today is an upgrade of FDX. The logistics giant moved to a Buy-equivalent rating after the consensus tracker registered one new bull. Target prices cluster around $355, valuing the stock…
Short sellers moved fast this week. ORTEX data through September 24 shows some sharp single-stock moves across pharma, rail, and semiconductors. The week's biggest mover: MMED — MiniMed Group — saw its SI % of free…
