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Scotiabank made the boldest analyst move of the day. The bank raised its target price on TRGP from $257 to $314 — a 22% jump. Targa Resources carries a $62.5bn market cap. Short interest sits at just 2.6% of free…
Short sellers moved decisively this week. LCID saw the biggest jump among large names. Its SI % of free float rose to 49.7% — up 14.4 percentage points in just seven days. Availability is near zero at 0.4% of SI.…
Casey's General Stores posted a sharply disappointing fiscal Q1. The fallout has been swift — analysts slashed price targets by as much as $200 and the stock dropped over 14% on the day of the print. It has lost 17% on…
Why this matters: Nine analyst firms cut their price targets on COO in a single session. The wave of downgrades followed an earnings miss that sent the stock down nearly 15% on September 10. Now options markets are…
Three distinct signals have converged on Eaton Corporation this week. A major analyst upgrade, a jump in short positioning, and a cost-to-borrow move are all pointing in different directions — and the tension is worth…
Two major brokers cut AMGN within 48 hours. The stock is down 14% in a week. Short sellers are adding positions. The signals are aligning — and not in the bulls' favour. BMO Capital struck first on September 8,…
United Rentals dropped 3.9% on September 10. The same day, JP Morgan downgraded the stock. Three signals are now pointing the same direction. JP Morgan's Tami Zakaria cut URI to Neutral from Overweight. The price…
Why this matters: Nine days ago, the borrowing market for Occidental Petroleum looked benign — costs had collapsed to near-zero and short interest was drifting lower. That picture has reversed sharply. Three distinct…
Short interest in USAR jumped to 25.4% of free float as of September 10 — up 13.2% in a single week — while the stock shed another 9.3% over the same period. The data now shows a meaningful escalation since the…
The picture for WRD has shifted materially since last week. Shorts are covering. Options traders are piling into calls at a record pace. The two signals are pointing in the same direction — and they're moving…
Three distinct signals have converged on TMO this week. An analyst upgrade, a short interest jump, and elevated put-buying are all pointing in different directions at once. UBS analyst Doug Schenkel upgraded TMO to Buy…
Why this matters: Home Depot has dropped 12.9% in a month. Yet options traders are now the most bullish they've been in weeks. That divergence — price falling, sentiment shifting — is the signal worth watching. The…
Defensive anxiety is building in FUTY. Three distinct signals — put-call ratio, short interest, and cost to borrow — have all shifted in the same direction within 24 hours. The put-call ratio hit 0.73 on September 10.…
Why this matters: AeroVironment bounced 4.4% on September 10. Short sellers used that bounce to press harder. Three distinct signals now align against the rally. SI hit 10.0% of free float on September 10. That's an…
Why this matters: Three separate signals on CME Group are moving in the same direction this week. Options traders are buying more puts. Short sellers are rebuilding positions. And a Deutsche Bank downgrade from late…
The Dow fell more than 300 points Thursday as oil prices surged. The Fear & Greed Index remains stuck in "Fear" territory. Rising energy costs are squeezing sentiment ahead of a busy earnings week featuring KR, LEN,…
Midstream energy giant TRGP grabbed the biggest analyst headline today. Scotiabank's Brandon Bingham raised his price target to $314 from $257 — a 22% jump — while keeping a Buy rating. The $62 billion company carries…
Short sellers have been busy this week. The biggest moves came in names where fresh pessimism is clearly building — not the usual suspects. Wix.com jumps onto radar. WIX saw its short interest leap 7.5 percentage…
Fixed income is the week's standout story. Bond ETFs pulled in $11.0B net over the past week. Equity ETFs shed $2.8B in the same period. That is a sharp reversal from the three-month picture, where equities dominated…
China's Enflame Technology surged more than 220% on its Shanghai debut today. Investors are betting hard on domestic AI chips as an alternative to NVDA. The listing puts fresh pressure on Nvidia's dominance in the…
