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NVDA confirmed a $12.9 billion acquisition of Hugging Face today. CEO Jensen Huang called it a "growth driver" for the AI ecosystem. The deal cements Nvidia's push beyond hardware into the AI software and model-sharing…
Insider filings this week reveal stark divergence. One billionaire bought aggressively. Others rushed to the exit. Bill Gates loads up on Republic Services. The Microsoft co-founder's investment vehicle filed this week…
Three separate Wall Street firms raised their price targets on AVGO in quick succession on Wednesday. Rosenblatt set the highest bar at $600, up from $500. BMO Capital moved to $575 from $455. Cantor Fitzgerald matched…
Japan is the standout story of the week. ETFs tracking Japanese equities pulled in $8.6B in net flows over the past seven days. That puts Japan second only to the US in geography flows, with a flow imbalance of 81.7 —…
Global bond markets are under real stress today. US 10-year yields hit their highest level since 2023. UK borrowing costs touched a high not seen since 2008. Japanese government bond yields reached peaks last seen in…
Today kicks off a busy week for corporate results. Ciena ($51B market cap) reports this morning — the optical networking giant's numbers will test sentiment on enterprise tech spending. Campbell's and PVH Corp both…
DELL dominated analyst activity on Wednesday. Two firms sharply lifted their price targets. Truist Securities jumped from $360 to $505. Evercore ISI raised its own target to $575, up from $550. Both analysts maintain…
An NVIDIA board director filed some of the week's largest insider sell transactions on September 2. Mark Stevens, an independent director, disclosed he sold roughly 1.785 million shares across multiple transactions on…
Why this matters: Short interest in MTB spiked sharply over the past two weeks. Yet the lending market has swung in the opposite direction — availability is now exceptionally loose, and the cost to borrow has…
The put-call ratio on Applied Industrial Technologies hit 1.13 on September 2 — a 52-week high and nearly three standard deviations above its 20-day average of 0.78. Options traders are hedging hard. That's the…
Why this matters: Janus Living is flashing three distinct signals at once. Short positions have surged 52% in a month. The put/call ratio spiked to a 52-week high. Yet the borrow market remains wide open, and analysts…
MiniMed Group delivered a strong earnings print on September 1. The stock is up 22% on the week. Now short sellers are rebuilding — fast. Pre-earnings, the dominant trend was covering. Bears spent August trimming…
Snowflake is the standout mover this morning. Shares are up more than 24% premarket — the biggest single-stock move of the session. The jump follows strong earnings results that beat Wall Street estimates and lifted…
Ciena kicks off today with a pre-market earnings call at 8:30am ET. The $51bn networking firm is a key read on AI-driven fibre demand. Campbell's also reports this morning. The soup-to-snacks group has faced margin…
DELL grabbed the biggest headline. Truist Securities lifted its target price from $360 to $505 — a 40% jump. Evercore ISI followed, raising its target from $550 to $575 with a Buy rating intact. Dell's market cap sits…
Bill Gates has been buying Republic Services stock on a massive scale. Filings published this week show he spent more than $808 million picking up roughly 3.7 million shares across 57 transactions between August 10 and…
Short sellers turned aggressive this week. Data as of September 1 shows clear new targets — and a few notable retreats. Biggest mover: TENB (Tenable Holdings) saw short interest jump 4.7 percentage points in seven…
Japan is the standout story this week. ETFs targeting Japanese equities pulled in $8.4B over seven days. Flow imbalance hit 81.9, signalling strong buying pressure. Over three months, Japan has attracted $101B — the…
Why this matters: Two analyst upgrades in two days — and a fresh initiation — are landing just as Tempus AI shorts complete a multi-week retreat. The signals are converging, but options traders are adding puts. The…
Uber cut 3,300 jobs, and investor Ross Gerber called them the "first victims of the AI era." The timing is sharp. Tesla launches its Cybercab robotaxi today, September 4. The two events together crystallise the…
