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Bill Gates has been quietly accumulating RSG stock at scale. He filed purchases totalling $927 million in Republic Services shares over 65 separate trades between August 10 and September 2. His stake now stands at…
Short sellers turned aggressive this week on a handful of mid-cap names, while GameStop shorts quietly retreated. Chewy under siege. Chewy's short interest climbed to 51.5% of free float as of September 4 — up from…
Fixed Income grabbed the biggest weekly inflow. $12.4B flowed into bond ETFs this week. That is the largest net gain of any asset class. Equities also held positive, adding $4.8B. But the tone is shifting. The standout…
Why this matters — Convergence signals are rare. They fire only when three or more distinct ORTEX data streams align on the same stock within a tight window. This week, 27 convergences fired across a wide range of…
Defensive options positioning dominated the week of August 31. Across five high-severity pulses, traders piled into protective puts on names nursing sharp price declines. The put/call ratio (PCR) — which measures put…
The week of August 31 was broadly constructive on upgrades, but the tone soured fast in pockets of utilities and biotech. Bank of America's twin downgrades of PCG and EIX dominated the utility tape, while a wave of…
Short sellers made bold moves the week of August 31. MOO saw the most dramatic buildup — short interest tripled in seven days. At the other end, MSFT shorts nearly disappeared entirely, and GME saw rapid covering ahead…
The week in one paragraph — The first week of September delivered a broad tug-of-war. Short sellers built fresh positions across utilities, industrials, and select tech names while a wave of analyst upgrades flooded in…
US markets return from Labor Day on Tuesday with a packed week of institutional conference activity, one high-profile earnings print, and a string of short-squeeze setups worth tracking. The Goldman Sachs Communacopia…
Short sellers are making bold moves. CHWY now has 51.5% of its free float short — up 5 points in a week. WOLF is even more extreme at 75% short, with zero shares left to borrow. A squeeze there could be sharp. On the…
Analysts are busy reshaping software and financial data coverage this week. The standout calls are a fresh upgrade for ADSK and a consensus target lift for PLTR. Autodesk gets a lift. Autodesk jumped to a…
Insider activity picked up sharply this week. The biggest single trade came from ARGX. argenx founder and CEO Timothy Van Hauwermeiren filed a $21.1 million sale on September 5. He sold 20,000 shares at roughly $1,056…
Short sellers ran for the exits on two major names this week. NKE short interest plunged 72% in just seven days. Bears slashed their position to just 0.36% of float ahead of Tuesday's earnings print. GME saw an equally…
US markets return today after the Labor Day holiday. Investors come back to a busy week of earnings, elevated Treasury yields, and persistent pressure on consumer names. Treasury yields are back in the spotlight.…
Short sellers made notable moves this week. Chewy and Wix.com led the charge in rising short interest, while GameStop saw bears retreat. Biggest Movers Up Wix.com saw its SI % of free float jump 6.2 percentage points…
Fixed income pulled in $12.4B last week — the biggest single-week haul across all asset classes. That number tells the key story. Investors rotated away from passive equity into bonds, commodities, and actively managed…
PG&E Corporation has lost 14% in a week and 18% in a month. Analysts keep lowering targets. But the latest moves from Barclays and B of A suggest the repricing may be entering a final phase. Since our last reports…
The week's biggest headline came from the NVIDIA boardroom. Director Mark Stevens filed disclosures showing he sold over $411 million in NVDA shares across seven transactions between August 31 and September 2. Prices…
Navan, Inc. heads into its September 9 earnings release with the same split positioning flagged earlier this week — shorts still building, options traders still leaning bullish — but the analyst community has now…
WLTH carries a consistent story into its September 9 earnings event: a stock trading below where analysts set their price targets, with the Street repeatedly marking those targets lower. The analyst direction is the…
