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PBF Energy's Billionaire Seller Meets a 17% Week

PBF Energy has delivered its best weekly performance in months, up 17% to $72.28, yet the stock's biggest registered holder has spent July systematically selling into every rally — a tension that defines the setup…

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SMH Shorts Pull Back, but Options Traders Stay Defensive

SMH has dropped 17.6% over the past month to $540.53, yet the short-selling community spent this week actively unwinding positions — creating an unusual split between price weakness and short-side retreat. The…

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Zillow Shorts Rebuild Ahead of Tuesday Earnings

ZG heads into its August 5 earnings report with short sellers adding positions at an accelerating pace — even as the stock posts its best weekly gain in months. The tension at the heart of this week's setup is a rare…

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URA Shorts Rebuild as Uranium ETF Retreats

URA, the Global X Uranium ETF, enters August with shorts rebuilding sharply against a backdrop of price weakness — the key question is whether the positioning shift reflects sector conviction or tactical hedging into…

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VONG Drifts Lower on the Month as Shorts Quietly Double

VONG, the Vanguard Russell 1000 Growth ETF, sits at an odd crossroads this week — the share price has barely moved, yet short interest has surged to levels not seen in recent history for this fund. The price story is…

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EIS Shorts Ease as Borrow Market Loosens

EIS, the iShares MSCI Israel ETF, heads into August with short sellers retreating and the borrow market moving firmly into easy territory — a notable shift for a geopolitically sensitive instrument that saw meaningful…

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Visa Bulls Rewarded as Analysts Pile In After Q4 Beat

Visa delivered its fiscal Q4 2026 earnings on July 28 and the Street's pre-print optimism was validated — the stock is up nearly 3% on the week to $366.13, and analysts have responded with one of the most uniform…

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XME Shorts Surge as Borrow Tightens Hard

XME, the SPDR S&P Metals & Mining ETF, enters August with short sellers making an aggressive push against the sector — and the lending market struggling to keep up. Short interest has climbed sharply, and the scale of…

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Delta shorts ease as Street raises targets post-earnings

DAL enters August with the most interesting tension sitting between a uniformly bullish analyst community and a stock that has given back ground since reporting earnings in mid-July. The Street's post-earnings reaction…

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SAIA Drops 18% After Earnings as Analysts Reset Targets

Saia enters August bruised — down 18% on the week to $347.63, the sharpest single-week decline the LTL carrier has seen in recent memory, and the entire freight sector is watching what comes next. The catalyst was…

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LYV Falls 5% After Earnings as Street Lifts Targets Anyway

Live Nation Entertainment delivered its Q2 print on July 30 and the market said no — the stock dropped 5.1% the next day to $174.13, even as analysts responded by raising targets across the board. The disconnect…

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BLDR Drops 9% Post-Earnings as Analysts Slash Targets

Builders FirstSource delivered its Q2 results on July 30 and the market's verdict was swift — the stock fell sharply, ending the week down 9% to $66.44, reversing all of the pre-earnings recovery and leaving shares 26%…

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DexCom Surges Post-Earnings as Street Lifts Targets en Masse

DXCM delivered a Q2 earnings beat that flipped the script entirely — the defensive hedging that dominated the pre-print note has given way to a broad analyst upgrade cycle and the stock's strongest weekly move in…

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