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Short sellers kept their grip on two widely watched names this Friday. Wolfspeed sits at 87.5% SI of free float. Hertz Global Holdings is close behind at 73.5%. Borrowing Hertz stock costs a punishing 317% APR. That…
Friday brings one of the week's busiest reporting slates. Moderna posts Q3 results with the stock up 776% year to date. Analysts now see 46% average downside. Its RSI sits at 68. ORTEX's Index Rebalance Radar forecasts…
Options markets are sending a divided signal heading into one of the year's busiest earnings weeks. Call flows have swamped puts in several large-cap names. At the same time, chips and healthcare are drawing the…
Today's calendar is heavy. Moderna ($103B market cap) posts results this morning. The vaccine maker's quarter has drawn attention after ORTEX Alt Data shows European plug-in hybrid registrations hit a six-year October…
Medicare Advantage has crossed a threshold it has never hit before. ORTEX's Medicare dataset, drawn from CMS beneficiary records, shows penetration at 51.1% in July 2026. That is the highest reading since the series…
Wells Fargo and Guggenheim dominated Friday's rating activity. The two firms moved in opposite directions on several names. YUM got the biggest target lift of the session. Guggenheim's Gregory Francfort raised his…
The most striking insider activity in the latest available filings shows two heavyweight buyers moving in size, while a US defence-linked CEO quietly trimmed a large position. Bill Gates filed purchases in RSG Republic…
Short sellers are piling into electric vehicle and semiconductor names as November begins. Data from ORTEX as of 4 November tells a clear story: positions are rising fast in stocks already under heavy pressure. WOLF…
The week's most striking move is in China. ETFs tracking Chinese stocks pulled in $29.6B in net inflows over the past week, the largest absolute figure of any geography. Flow imbalance hit 84.2, a strong buying signal.…
Three major European companies report Thursday. Siemens Healthineers ($55.9 billion market cap) and defence contractor Rheinmetall ($52.4 billion) both post results, as does Swiss reinsurer Swiss Re. Rheinmetall has…
Three names are drawing unusual options attention on Thursday: RKT, MRNA, and AMD, each for different reasons. Rocket Companies jumped onto the S&P 500 radar overnight. Its probability of a December index addition rose…
Today brings a heavy European slate. Siemens Healthineers reports with a market cap of $55.9 billion. Rheinmetall, Europe's biggest defence contractor at $52.4 billion, also posts today. Swiss reinsurer Swiss Re ($55.9…
Wells Fargo and Guggenheim drove a broad wave of target price upgrades on Thursday, with five upward revisions among the most notable moves. Yum! Brands saw the biggest percentage jump. Guggenheim analyst Gregory…
UBER President and COO Andrew MacDonald filed two open-market share purchases totalling roughly $5.3 million on 4 September, with the trades reported to regulators on 8 September. MacDonald bought 54,325 shares at…
Hertz remains one of the most pain-inducing shorts on US markets. Its cost to borrow hit 317% APR. Short interest sits at 73.5% of free float. That figure has barely moved in a week. Bears are holding firm, not…
Ten US tech stocks erased $1.7 trillion in market value on Thursday. NVDA, AMD, TSLA, META, AMZN, GOOGL, MSFT and AVGO all featured in the selloff. NVDA's RSI sits at 34.5, in oversold…
SPY options markets are flashing mixed signals Thursday. Iran's willingness to review "concrete proposals" on its nuclear programme sent oil puts higher. The USO oil ETF carries expiries through to January 2027.…
Thursday brings a cluster of high-profile European and Asian earnings. Rheinmetall posts quarterly results today, with the German defence group riding one of the strongest run-rates in the sector. Siemens Healthineers…
Two datasets are flashing the same signal from Europe this week. EU air passengers totalled 128.7 million in April 2026. That is the smallest April figure in four years, well below the 159.5 million recorded in April…
Fidelity National Information Services took the sharpest blow on Thursday. William Blair downgraded the payments group to Hold from Buy, pulling its consensus deeper into neutral territory. The $15.3 billion fintech…
