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An NVDA board member filed a cluster of large open-market sales in early September. Mark A. Stevens, an independent director at NVIDIA, reported selling roughly 1.65 million shares across multiple transactions filed…
CHWY is the week's standout mover. Short interest jumped to 92.2% of free float, up from 66.7% just seven days ago. That is a 25.6 percentage-point leap. The pet retailer now sits as one of the most shorted mid-cap…
US-focused ETFs pulled in $32.9B last week. That is the biggest single-geography inflow by a wide margin, with a flow imbalance reading of 72.5, firmly in buying-pressure territory. The picture over three months is…
The week of 15 October is headlined by two of the market's biggest names. NFLX reports Monday 20 October after the close. TSLA follows on Tuesday 21 October. German car registration data tracked by ORTEX Alt Data is…
Earnings season and index rebalance pressure are driving the most distinct options patterns this week. TSLA reports on 21 October. Options volume around the print has picked up sharply. German car registration data, a…
The week of 15 October brings a dense run of S&P 500 results. The two biggest names arrive in the second half. NFLX reports Q3 figures on Monday 20 October after the close. The streaming giant is worth $294 billion and…
Morgan Stanley dominated Thursday's analyst tape, issuing a batch of target price changes across financials and energy that pulled in opposite directions. The sharpest cut came on BAC. Betsy Graseck at Morgan Stanley…
Insider buying picked up across several sectors this month, with the clearest signal coming from US homebuilder LEN. Lennar ranks first for insider buying value over the past month among large-cap US stocks, according…
CHWY saw the biggest short interest jump among large-cap stocks this week. SI % of free float rose 25.6 percentage points in seven days to 92.2%. That is one of the highest readings for any US stock above $1B market…
Apple crossed a $5 trillion market cap today, briefly closing in on Nvidia at the top of the global valuation table. The gap between the two megacaps is narrowing as AI hardware sentiment turns choppy. Heavy bearish…
Options markets are pricing in significant moves ahead of two high-profile prints. Tesla reports on 21 October and General Motors follows on 20 October. Both stocks are drawing heavy negative options bets by volume…
Tesla reports Tuesday and General Motors on Monday. Both names carry meaningful alternative data signals heading into their prints. German car registration data, which ORTEX Alt Data identifies as leading GM revenue by…
Euro-area industrial production fell to an index reading of 97.5 in August. That is the weakest August reading in five years, according to the Eurostat industrial production index. The decline was not a one-month blip.…
Analysts trimmed targets across utilities and defence sectors Thursday, while energy and industrials saw selective upgrades. Six utility names took coordinated target price cuts. WEC, ED, SRE, PEG, FE, and AEP all saw…
Activist fund Corvex Management has been walking away from ILMN. Between August 19 and September 4, Corvex filed 40 separate sell transactions totalling $203M in Illumina stock. The filings became public on September…
Short sellers turned aggressive on CHWY this week. SI % FF jumped 25.6 percentage points in seven days, reaching 92.2% of free float as of 14 October. That is one of the sharpest single-week moves among mid-to-large…
Japan swept in as the week's biggest surprise, pulling $13.5B into ETFs in seven days. That compares to three months of net outflows totalling nearly $10B. The reversal is sharp. Institutional money had been leaving…
Eight S&P 500 names report today, with financials leading the charge. Charles Schwab, U.S. Bancorp, PNC Financial, and Bank of New York Mellon are all on the tape. KeyCorp is next in line, with analysts trimming…
Pre-earnings options positioning is heating up as two major auto names loom on the calendar. TSLA reports on 21 October and GM on 20 October. German car registration data tracked by ORTEX Alt Data offers a rare…
Financial stocks dominate the calendar this week, with a string of large US bank earnings starting today and running through Tuesday. Charles Schwab and Marsh & McLennan report this morning, joined by U.S. Bancorp, PNC…
