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IDXX jumped 21.8% on November 3, its biggest single-day gain in recent memory, after reporting results that landed well ahead of expectations. The stock closed November 2 at $671.64, up 29.6% over the past month. The…
A busy reporting slate is running through Tuesday. AMGN posts results after the US close, a $251bn biotech that will set the tone for pharma sentiment. Ferrari also reports today. ORTEX Austrian car registration data,…
Semiconductors dominate unusual options flow this Tuesday, with the most active negative-bet volumes clustering in the chip sector as RSI readings push into deeply oversold territory across several names. Micron…
Today delivers a packed slate. AMGN reports after the US close, a $251bn biotech that will set the tone for pharma bulls. GRAB also posts today, with the Southeast Asian super-app market watching for signs of…
US carrier stress is retreating sharply. Inactive carrier registrations tracked by ORTEX US trucking data fell 76% year-on-year in October 2026, to 274 from 1,132 a year earlier. That marks five consecutive months of…
Filings reported on 8 September show Uber President and COO Andrew Gordon MacDonald made two open-market purchases in early September, spending a combined $5.3M on 70,000 shares. The trades were filed at an average…
Analysts downgraded MRVL on Tuesday, trimming the consensus target to $327.36 from $333.09. The chipmaker lost one Buy rating, leaving 39 Buys and 5 Holds against zero Sells. Marvell has been a favourite AI…
Short sellers grew busier this week. Three names stand out for unusual activity. LCID hit a striking milestone. Utilization reached 100% and availability collapsed to just 0.13% of short interest. That is the fewest…
Zebra Technologies reports earnings today. The options market has shifted sharply in the final hours before the print. The put/call ratio reached 1.81 on November 2, against a 20-day mean of 1.44. That puts it 3.1…
IDACORP sits well below the crowded end of the regulated utility pack. Short interest at 8.6% of free float compares with higher conviction shorts among mid-size peers; closest correlate LNT has moved 5.1% over the…
JMKE is a New Jersey-based sandwich chain that went public earlier this year. It now faces a compressing borrow market, a stock up 11% in a week, and an index announcement expected within days. The cost to borrow JMKE…
Why this matters now: ORCL dropped another 8.8% on Monday to $119.22, extending a brutal slide that has now erased 16% over the past month. Three separate signals converged on the same day: an analyst upgrade, a sharp…
Viking Holdings short sellers have maintained their elevated position through the first days of November. Shares short stand at 10.3 million, equal to 3.3% of free float, up 15.9% over the past week and 30.6% over the…
Marsh & McLennan rose 5.5% last week, outpacing the median 2.9% gain for its closest insurance brokerage peers. BMO Capital's upgrade to Outperform, with a new $230 target, lands as short interest climbs to its highest…
Three distinct data streams on Consolidated Edison are pointing the same direction with two days to go before the November 5 earnings report. Short interest has fallen 11.8% over the past week to 3.19% of the free…
RDDT shed 29% in a single session after its Q3 earnings print. The stock is now down 38% over the past month and 34% in just one week, a collapse that makes every comparable peer look stationary: PINS fell 4.3% on the…
Aon plc, the global insurance broker navigating a $13 billion USI acquisition that divided the Street for most of 2026, just posted its strongest weekly gain in months. The stock rose 10.4% over the past week to…
NiSource has risen 3.3% over the past week, in line with its closest utility peers, yet options traders are pricing in more downside protection than at any point since May 2026. The put/call ratio jumped to 0.703 on…
Rosenblatt's Barton Crockett downgraded ROKU to Neutral from Buy on Monday, keeping his $160 price target intact while the stock trades at $155.52. The move adds to a pattern: Wells Fargo, Guggenheim, and Seaport…
