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Three high-profile names report results this week. Costco is the marquee event. It posts Q4 2026 figures Thursday after the close. Wall Street watches Costco closely for signs of consumer spending resilience.…
Analysts delivered a split verdict Friday. Nucor took the sharpest blow — a consensus downgrade pushed the $56 billion steelmaker from Hold to Sell territory. The average target price edged down to $283.63. Short…
Three distinct insider stories stand out from the most recent filings, covering the period ending September 8. Bill Gates loads up on Republic Services. The billionaire filed a series of open-market buys totalling over…
Short sellers have been busy this week. BRVE — Braveheart Bio — tops the US short interest rankings with a staggering 226% of free float shorted. That figure jumped +36.5 percentage points in just seven days. Bears are…
The US market dominated ETF inflows this week. American-focused funds pulled in a net $23.8B over seven days. That dwarfs every other geography. It is consistent with the three-month trend, where US ETFs lead with…
A packed week of results kicks off today. AutoZone reports Q4 2026 before the open. KB Home follows in the afternoon, with housing data under scrutiny as mortgage rates stay elevated. The week's biggest event comes…
Semiconductors dominate unusual options activity this week. Negative bets are piling into the sector as earnings season heats up. Micron Technology tops the bearish options flow table. The chip stock is up 256%…
A busy week opens today with confirmed results due across consumer, tech, and housing sectors. AutoZone kicks off Monday morning with its Q4 2026 release before the open. The auto parts retailer has beaten estimates in…
Three standout insider trades filed recently show executives and major shareholders putting real money to work — and one high-profile biotech CEO cashing out at the top. Bill Gates keeps buying Republic Services. The…
Morgan Stanley analyst David Arcaro cut price targets across four US utilities on Friday. The sweep hit PPL, PNW, PCG, and NRG. PPL's target fell from $42 to $39. PG&E dropped from $22 to $20. The cuts signal growing…
Short sellers made bold moves this week. BKV (BKV Corporation) saw the biggest jump among larger names. Its short interest hit 27.6% of free float, up from 21.7% just seven days ago — a 5.9 percentage point surge. The…
Options flow is telling two distinct stories this session. Bulls are aggressively buying calls on BABA ahead of its Q1 2027 earnings call. The stock trades at an RSI of just 37. Analysts see 70% upside from here. That…
An NVIDIA director made the biggest insider move of the week. Mark Stevens filed seven open-market sales totalling $411 million between August 31 and September 2. No 10b5-1 plan was disclosed. NVIDIA's market cap…
Morgan Stanley cut price targets on five utility stocks in a single session Friday. The move hit NEE, PPL, PCG, PNW, and NRG. Analyst David Arcaro trimmed NextEra's target to $111 from $114. PG&E fell to $20 from $22.…
An NVIDIA director and Bill Gates made headlines in early September with two high-profile insider moves that offer a striking contrast in sentiment. Mark Stevens, an independent director at NVIDIA, filed seven sell…
ONON heads into its September 22 earnings print with the most contested positioning it has seen in months — short sellers who rebuilt aggressively are now facing co-CEOs who put nearly $4 million of their own money to…
Cybin Inc. heads into its September 22 earnings event with one of the most concentrated insider buying clusters seen in a clinical-stage biotech this year. Executive Chair Eric So and Chief Growth Officer Paul Glavine…
Minerals Technologies Inc. reports Q3 results on September 22 with the stock sitting well below where analysts think it belongs — a gap that makes the earnings release unusually consequential for sentiment. The…
Alibaba heads into its September 22 quarterly print with options traders making their most bullish bet of the past year. The clearest signal is in the options market. The put/call ratio has dropped to 0.497 — a full…
Short sellers made sharp moves this week. The clearest action came in mid-cap names, with notable builds and covers happening simultaneously. MMED (MiniMed Group) saw the biggest percentage-point jump among larger…
