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The week of 3–10 August is defined by earnings, not macro. No rate decisions are scheduled. The data calendar is light after Monday's ISM and JOLTS prints. That leaves the market focused on a dense earnings slate —…
It's a packed Monday on the earnings front. Palantir, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, and Marriott all report today. Tuesday brings the heaviest slate. Caterpillar and McDonald's both post at 12:30 ET. Their results will be…
Options markets are sending conflicting signals on August 3. Bearish bets are heaviest in semiconductors. Negative options flow is highest in SNDK, MU, NVDA, AMD, and INTC. All five are chip names. That is a notable…
Wall Street delivered a split verdict on Monday. Starbucks received a consensus upgrade as analysts lifted their average target price to $111.55. The coffee giant carries a $120 billion market cap. Short interest sits…
Options traders are leaning bullish on Agilent Technologies as the stock builds toward its August 20 earnings date. Three distinct signals are now pointing in the same direction. Why this matters: The put-call ratio…
Short sellers are leaning hardest into Hertz Global Holdings right now. SI hit 80.9% of free float as of July 31. That's up 2.3 percentage points in just seven days. Shares are down 74% over three months. Zero…
Three separate signals are moving in the same direction for Datadog ahead of Thursday's Q2 print. Options traders are buying protection. Short sellers are covering. Borrow costs are ticking up. Each signal tells a…
Two days after availability hit zero, KORU has not recovered a single share of lending capacity. Cost to borrow has continued rising. The squeeze on the borrow market is holding at maximum pressure. The previous note…
Eaton Corporation reported Q2 on July 31 and jumped 7.3% in a single session. Now Evercore ISI has upgraded the stock — and the options market is still digesting the move. Evercore ISI's David Raso upgraded ETN to…
A heavy earnings week kicks off today. Palantir reports tonight — markets are watching its AI-driven revenue closely. Vertex Pharmaceuticals also posts after the close. Marriott reports at 12:30 ET, offering a read on…
Options sentiment is shifting across multiple sectors this Monday. Market participants are reacting to yen intervention fears, a heavy earnings week, and a standout move in energy stocks. PBF Energy tops the ORTEX…
Today kicks off a packed earnings week. Loews reports this morning. Marriott follows at 12:30 ET. Vertex Pharmaceuticals — a $121bn biotech — posts after the close. Palantir also reports tonight. Markets will watch its…
Analyst desks were busy on Monday. Target price moves hit several names across tech, financials, and consumer staples. Seagate Technology grabbed the most attention. Analysts lifted the average consensus target to…
Charles Schwab is cashing out. The founder and co-chairman of SCHW filed disclosures showing he sold over $19.7M worth of shares between July 24 and July 29. His daughter, Director Carolyn Schwab-Pomerantz, filed a…
Short sellers are making big moves this week. HTZ — Hertz Global Holdings — now has 84.6% of its free float sold short. That's up from 74.9% just seven days ago, a jump of nearly 10 percentage points. Peer CAR — Avis…
Short sellers stepped up their bets hard last week. Several names saw their short interest jump by more than 9 percentage points of free float in just seven days. Car rental names under fire. HTZ (Hertz) now sits at…
Japan and China are the week's headline story. Japan pulled in $13.8B in net ETF flows over the past week. China added $12.9B. Together they outpaced every other geography except the US itself, which led with $24.7B…
China's manufacturing PMI slipped to 50.9 in July. The print missed estimates of 51.9 and fell from 51.7 prior. That's the weakest reading in months. Separately, the yen jumped 3% as speculation swirled over US…
CRWV arrives at its August 6 earnings report with short sellers reversing course — rebuilding positions into a stock already down 28% over the past month. The most notable shift since last week's note is the direction…
Hertz Global Holdings reports August 6 with short sellers at their most committed position of this cycle, every share in the borrow pool already lent out, and analysts cutting targets faster than the stock can…
