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Fixed Income took the top spot this week. It pulled in $14.2B net — the largest single asset class inflow over seven days. Equities added $7.3B. Commodities brought in $4.4B, suggesting a broad but cautious risk…
Options markets are flashing bearish signals across key names this week. Negative bet volume topped positive flow in semiconductors. Traders appear to be hedging ahead of a potential rate and credit crunch. MU drew the…
Short sellers are feeling the heat across several heavily-shorted stocks. Hertz remains the most exposed battleground — bears hold 61.9% of free float short, yet the stock has rallied 52% in a month. Zero shares are…
Analyst desks were busy Sunday, with a notable downgrade hitting cybersecurity and a bullish new call landing on memory chips. PANW took the day's biggest hit. Analysts cut their rating on Palo Alto Networks, with the…
Short sellers are making bold moves heading into autumn. Chewy saw its SI % FF jump 5 points in a week to 51.5%. That is one of the sharpest single-week climbs in the market right now. Hertz remains a battleground.…
The September 4 print has come and gone. NIO fell 1.6% on the day. Now the lending market has tightened further still — and short interest keeps climbing. Availability has dropped to 4.2%. That is the tightest reading…
DFEM has had a calm week, with the ETF adding 1.7% to close at $41.00 — and the data behind the price tells a similarly undramatic story. Short interest is low and falling fast. At just 0.39% of the float, bears have…
WEN has quietly resolved one of the contradictions that defined the past two weeks — cost to borrow has crashed back to earth even as short covering continues — and the result is a stock that looks incrementally less…
Hims & Hers Health enters the week with the stock down another 4% — extending a bruising month that has now erased nearly 14% — while short interest edges quietly higher and the analyst community tries to find a…
PDD Holdings enters the week down 10% over the past month, trading at $82.21, with the Street well below the stock after a run of downgrades following May earnings — yet the lending market tells a story of bears…
KLA Corporation just posted its sharpest single-day gain in months, yet the options market is now the most bullish it has been all year — and that combination demands attention. The price move is striking. KLAC closed…
Hertz enters the week carrying one of the most structurally complex setups in US equities: a 52% one-month price surge running directly into a short position that has barely budged, a lending market with zero room to…
CD Projekt Red is now three trading days past its September 2 earnings release, down nearly 10% on the month, and the short score that spiked before results has refused to meaningfully retreat — the tension between an…
Dino Polska is now five weeks into a borrow-market squeeze that has accelerated rather than stabilised — and the short score has hit a new high just as the stock posts its best monthly performance of the year. The…
MDV has seen a narrow but meaningful shift in its borrow market this week — availability has climbed off zero for the first time in days, yet the broader squeeze dynamic remains firmly in place ahead of a October 1…
Rezolve AI is now three days past its September 1 earnings shock, and the bear position continues to grow — a sign that the initial post-print rebuild was not a one-session reaction but the beginning of a sustained…
NVIDIA enters the post-earnings drift phase with momentum intact, shorts sidelined, and the next catalyst still eleven weeks away. The stock added another 4.7% on the week and 9% over the past month, extending the…
Two heavily shorted names are generating the loudest signals in US options markets today. Short sellers face extreme pressure in both IREN and Wolfspeed — and the setup is drawing attention from derivatives…
Brent crude jumped to $97 a barrel today. The move is the single biggest macro story of the session. Energy stocks in Europe gained. BP and Shell were in focus as oil traders priced in tighter supply. Germany's AfD…
PANW was downgraded this week in the most eye-catching analyst move of recent days. The cybersecurity giant now carries a lower rating, with the consensus average target sitting at $391. Short interest is just 2.7% of…
