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SLV fell 4.2% on September 23. Now options traders are hedging. The put-call ratio jumped to 0.51 — a z-score of 2.07 above the 20-day mean. The PCR hit 0.51 on September 23. That is the highest reading since early…
Today's market is defined by one word: conviction. Insiders are buying in size. Short sellers are pushing hard. And options traders are picking sides ahead of a pivotal earnings week. The result is a market full of…
Analysts are divided this week. Amgen took the hardest hit. The $221bn biotech was downgraded. The consensus shifted from four buys to five buys before the change landed — but the rating direction is now firmly down.…
Bill Gates filed disclosures on September 1–3 showing he spent over $241 million buying Republic Services shares. The trades ran from August 28 to September 2. Gates snapped up roughly 1.09 million shares across…
Short sellers turned aggressive this week. BRVE (Braveheart Bio) leads the chaos. Its SI % of free float hit 352% — up from 192% just seven days ago. That 160-point jump in a week is extraordinary. WOLF (Wolfspeed)…
H.B. Fuller reported this morning after yesterday's close, with the market now digesting results against a backdrop where options traders had already priced in exceptional downside risk. The options signal into the…
Darden Restaurants has cleared its earnings hurdle, and the market's response in the 24 hours since is telling a more constructive story than the pre-print setup suggested. The short unwind that began after results hit…
MU is the week's standout name. Analysts lifted their target price and ratings remain near-unanimous buy. The stock is up 284% year-to-date. Options flow backed the bullish case. Bulls and bears both placed large…
Options markets sent mixed signals Wednesday. Bears piled into space and pharma stocks. Chips attracted bullish flows. The divergence points to a market rotating rather than retreating. Micron Technology sits at the…
Analysts delivered a mixed bag of calls Wednesday. The standout moves span biotech, payments, and memory chips. AMGN took the sharpest hit. A consensus downgrade pushed the biotech's analyst split to 5 buys against 17…
Insider filings this month show a clear split: one top executive buying with conviction while an activist fund heads for the exit. UBER President and COO Andrew MacDonald filed purchases totalling $5.3 million on…
Short sellers made big moves last week. BRVE — Braveheart Bio — saw the most extreme reading, with SI jumping to 352% of free float, up 161 points in seven days. That level reflects aggressive synthetic short…
The week's defining story is a sharp reversal in US equities. American stock ETFs shed a net $44.7B over seven days. That contrasts sharply with the 3-month picture, where US-focused funds attracted $190.6B.…
The week's biggest catalyst arrives Wednesday, when COST reports Q4 2026 results. Costco's $399 billion market cap makes it the retail bellwether of the quarter. Then on September 30, MU reports Q4 results. Micron sits…
Bullish options bets dominated semiconductor names this week. Meta Platforms and Micron Technology topped the ORTEX positive-bets ranking over the past seven days. Advanced Micro Devices also drew heavy call flow. Its…
This week brings several confirmed earnings releases. The biggest event comes on Wednesday, September 24, when COST reports Q4 2026 results after the close. Costco's $399 billion market cap makes it one of the…
Rosenblatt Securities initiated coverage of LITE with a Buy rating today. The broker set a $1,300 target price. That implies significant upside for the photonics and optical networking company. Lumentum carries a…
Activist fund Corvex Management filed disclosures this month showing it sold over $57 million worth of ILMN shares between September 2 and 4. The filings also reveal Corvex principal Keith Meister personally sold a…
Short sellers dramatically lifted bets against BRVE this week. SI % of Free Float jumped to 352% — up from 192% just seven days ago, a gain of 161 percentage points. That signals heavy synthetic short positioning in…
CORDELIA — Waterways Leisure Tourism's cruise brand on India's NSEI — has a capital structure that explains almost everything the price has done this month. Global Shipping and Leisure Limited holds 89.3% of the…
