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Eight analyst firms cut their price targets on ALNY on October 30 alone. Two downgraded. The stock fell 29% on earnings day and is now down 35% over the past month, trading at $165. Raymond James dropped its rating…
Apple reports after the close today. The $5 trillion company is the biggest print of the week. Options markets are pricing high demand for near-dated strikes, with 11 active expiry dates this week alone. Amgen follows…
Why this matters: Toyota Motor enters its post-earnings period with two converging signals pointing the same direction. The borrow market has never been tighter this year. At the same time, ORTEX Alt Data shows Indian…
Options markets are pricing a busy week with Apple at the centre. The $5 trillion tech giant carries 11 active expiry dates this week alone, including a November 4 weekly that captures Q4 earnings. That density of…
AAPL reports today, Monday, after the close. The $5 trillion company faces scrutiny over Services margins and AI product uptake. It is the biggest print of the week by far. Also today, MAR releases results before the…
India's two-wheeler market recorded its weakest October since 2017 last month. The Society of Automotive Manufacturers' registration data counted just 407,743 new units, down 87% on October last year. That is the…
Xcel Energy is the sharpest downgrade of the session. The utility was cut to a lower rating from the consensus view. Its short interest sits at 8.2% of free float. Short availability is extremely loose at 1,425%,…
UBER President and COO Andrew Gordon MacDonald filed two open-market purchases totalling roughly $5.3M, with trades dated 4 September 2026. The filings show 54,325 shares bought at around $75.70, plus a further 15,675…
Short sellers intensified bets across several names last week. Wolfspeed tops the most-shorted table with 88.6% of its free float sold short. That figure climbed another 4.8 percentage points in just seven days. Shares…
China drew $11B in net ETF inflows over the past week. But Japan delivered the bigger reversal. Japanese-focused ETFs pulled in $6.9B this week. Over three months, Japan had been a heavy net seller at -$15.9B. That…
Short sellers added positions in WCN at an unusual pace following Q3 earnings. Shares short rose 27% in a single week to 5.2 million, pushing short interest to 2.04% of free float, the highest reading in over a year.…
Renasant Corporation fell 3.9% over the past week, worse than the median decline of 1.1% for its closest regional bank peers. Short interest has climbed to 6.1% of free float, the highest in at least a year, and two…
Fourteen analyst notes landed on Intel in the 48 hours after its Q4 earnings. Almost all of them cut price targets. The stock closed Thursday at $65.76, down 28.6% on the day and 43% over the past month. The scale of…
Iran-linked oil disruption is the clearest macro theme of the moment. Options traders are loading up on energy names, with ExxonMobil and Chevron drawing heavy near-term flow. Refiner PBF Energy, up 188% year-to-date,…
The options market is flashing strong bullish signals in energy stocks as Iran war-related oil disruptions push trading activity to unusual levels. ExxonMobil and Chevron are fielding the most active near-term expiries…
VRSU.Y reports Q3 results on November 3 with a trading picture that is harder to read than most: the OTC-listed shares last closed 12 days ago, leaving the setup essentially frozen ahead of the print. The most recent…
Upstart Holdings heads into its Q3 print on November 3 with one of the most contested positioning pictures in consumer finance: a short book that remains near multi-year highs is being trimmed at the margin, the stock…
PGV enters Thursday's earnings release with its shares down 7.4% over the past month and a further 1.2% drop on Friday, closing at VND 20,550. The stock has been drifting lower for weeks, and the trend has only…
Among gene-editing peers, CRSP carries one of the lighter short positions heading into its November 3 results. BEAM, NTLA and EDIT all gained more than 11% on the week while CRSP added only 4.1%, suggesting…
Moelis & Company arrives at its November 5 earnings release with short sellers having retreated materially over the past two weeks, while analysts spent October trimming targets across the board. Short interest peaked…
