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The heaviest earnings calendar of the quarter is now open. GM reports Q3 results before the bell today. German car registration data, which leads GM revenue by 15 days with a strong fit, is running 133% above the same…
Markets are heading into one of the busiest earnings weeks of the year. Options positioning reflects that tension across autos, tech, and a handful of small-caps. MBLY stands out as the clearest bearish signal this…
The week opens with GM reporting Q3 results before the bell today. German car registration data, which leads GM revenue by 15 days, is running 133% above the same quarter last year. That is a strong backdrop heading…
Citigroup dominated analyst activity on Tuesday, slashing price targets across multiple sectors in a sweep that signals broad caution from the bank's research desk. AppLovin took the biggest hit in absolute dollar…
UBER President and COO Andrew Gordon MacDonald filed two open-market share purchases on September 8, disclosing trades made on September 4. Combined, he spent roughly $5.3 million buying 70,000 shares at an average…
Short sellers added to bets against CHWY last week. Short interest rose 4.3 percentage points to 91.5% of free float. That is one of the highest readings among mid-cap US names right now, and it kept climbing as the…
The week's biggest market event arrives tomorrow. Tesla reports Q3 2026 results after the close on Tuesday. German car registrations, which ORTEX alt data measures as leading Tesla revenue by 43 days with a strong fit,…
A dense earnings week is shaping up as the main driver of options positioning. Tesla reports Q3 results on 21 October and General Motors drops its numbers today. Both stocks sit at the heart of the market's…
Today alone carries four major reports. GM kicks things off this morning with Q3 2026 results. German car registrations, a dataset measured to lead GM revenue by 15 days, ran 133% above the same quarter last year…
Real-economy data from public registers and regulators is printing records on three continents this month. The headline is in Canada, where bank balance sheets crossed a threshold never seen before. Alongside it,…
The biggest target price moves today sit at opposite ends of the sentiment dial. Canaccord Genuity lifted its price target on ILMN by $95 to $300, a 46% jump in a single cut. The rating stays Hold, but the magnitude of…
The ORTEX insider database, which covers non-US markets via vendor data and runs to a latest filing date of 8 September 2026, shows a clear pattern of institutional and corporate selling in the most recent window, with…
CHWY carries the most extreme short position among large US stocks. Short interest sits at 91.5% of free float. That is up 4.3 percentage points in a week, the biggest weekly rise in the dataset. IBTA is the…
The single biggest money flow story of the past week is a sharp reversal in equity preferences. US-listed tech ETFs took in $7.6B net over seven days, making Information Technology the top sector by far. That stands in…
Markets are bracing for a concentrated run of major results. GM kicks things off Monday, with ORTEX alt data showing German car registrations running 133% above the same quarter last year, a dataset that leads GM…
Options sentiment is tilting bullish heading into a packed earnings week. But a few names are flashing signals worth watching closely. Tesla reports Q3 results tomorrow. Short interest sits at just 2.5% of free float.…
GM kicks things off tomorrow, Monday 20 October, with its Q3 2026 results. German car registration data tracked by ORTEX leads GM's revenue by 15 days. That dataset is running 133% above the same quarter last year, all…
The most striking target price move of the day comes from ILMN. Canaccord Genuity raised its target to $300 from $205, a $95 jump. The analyst maintained a Hold rating. That gap between a bold target and a tepid rating…
The most notable disclosed activity in recent weeks comes from Evolution AB, the Swedish live-casino group. Major shareholder Kenneth Bryan Dart filed purchases worth a combined $716 million, buying on 21 July and 24…
Short sellers are moving fast this week. Chewy saw the biggest SI jump among large US names, with short interest rising to 91.5% of free float from 87.3% a week ago, a 4.3 percentage point move. Shares to borrow are…
