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The story of this week's ETF flows is a sharp tilt toward tech and Asian markets. Equity funds pulled in a net $63.6B in a single week. That dwarfs every other asset class and sets a clear risk-on tone heading into a…
The week's biggest focus is earnings. General Motors reports Monday and Tesla reports Tuesday. Both carry elevated options activity heading into the prints. German car registration data tracked by ORTEX, which leads…
Options markets are pricing in a busy week. Tesla reports Q3 results on 21 October. General Motors follows on 20 October. Both carry elevated event risk, and alt-data signals are pointing in different directions for…
General Motors reports Monday, 20 October. Tesla follows Tuesday. Both are closely watched given the auto cycle and electric vehicle demand trends. German car registration data tracked by ORTEX Alt Data, which leads…
Analyst activity on Friday centred on regional banks, transports and a surprising U-turn on a credit data giant. Equifax took the sharpest hit. Oppenheimer analyst Rayna Kumar cut the stock to Hold from Buy, dropping…
An NVDA board member filed a cluster of sales worth more than $400 million in early September. Mark A. Stevens, an independent director at NVIDIA, reported selling shares across five separate transactions between 31…
Short sellers had a busy week. The biggest moves came in smaller names, but two mid-cap stocks with persistent bearish pressure also stood out. WOLF carries a short interest of 83.8% of free float. Zero shares are…
The dominant theme heading into the weekend is earnings. Tesla reports Tuesday 21 October. ORTEX German car registration data, a dataset that leads Tesla revenue by 43 days with a strong historical fit, is running 269%…
Semiconductor names are dominating options desks today. Micron and SanDisk led negative options bets among large-caps this week, as both stocks fell sharply alongside a broader Nasdaq 100 slide. The two names sit at…
Canada sold 150,161 new trucks in August 2026, according to Canadian vehicle registration data ingested by ORTEX. That is the largest August figure in records going back to 2002, beating the previous best of 145,110…
Today the calendar kicks off with weight. Nestlé reports this morning, the Swiss food giant carrying a market cap near $250bn. Schneider Electric follows shortly after, with $162bn at stake. Also today, Regions…
Analysts cut targets across financial stocks this week while hospitality names caught upgrades. The moves paint a divided picture heading into earnings season. SCHW, SPGI, MCO, ARES and APO all saw consensus target…
UBER President and COO Andrew Gordon MacDonald filed a pair of open-market purchases totalling $5.3M in early September, picking up roughly 70,000 shares. The trades were discretionary, carrying no 10b5-1 plan…
CHWY is this week's most dramatic short interest move. Its SI % of free float jumped 25 percentage points in seven days, reaching 91.3% as of 15 October. That is one of the sharpest single-week builds in the US market…
The dominant story this week is simple: US-focused ETFs pulled in $32.9B in net flows over seven days, more than four times the next largest geography. China came second at $7.3B. Together, they account for nearly all…
US core CPI hit 339.3 in September, the highest reading since the series began in 1997, per ORTEX Alt Data. The annual rate reached 3.7%, the strongest September print in two years. That keeps rate expectations…
Two automakers are driving options activity this week. Tesla reports on 21 October and General Motors on 20 October. Both face a market reading hot inflation signals. US core CPI hit 339.3 in September, its highest…
The earnings calendar is packed. General Motors kicks off Tuesday with its Q3 report. German car registration data, which leads GM revenue by 15 days with a strong fit, is running 133% above the same quarter last year.…
Analysts trimmed targets across financial stocks on Friday while raising the bar for hospitality names. The moves point to two clear themes into year-end. SCHW, SPGI, MCO, ARES, and APO all saw consensus targets nudged…
Bill Gates has been buying RSG shares at a steady pace. Filings reported between late August and early September show he purchased more than 2.7 million shares of Republic Services across roughly 14 separate…
