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Bill Gates filed fresh purchases this week in RSG. He added over $76M in Republic Services shares across two trades. Gates bought 181,392 shares on August 21 and another 166,858 shares on August 18. That's a notable…
Short sellers turned noticeably more aggressive this past week. Two names led the charge in SI momentum. PURR — Hyperliquid Strategies Inc. — saw the sharpest move. Short interest jumped nearly 10 percentage points in…
AMD fell another 3.5% Monday to $456.75. Yet the analyst community keeps moving in the opposite direction. This morning, Raymond James analyst Simon Leopold upgraded AMD to Strong Buy and lifted his price target from…
Options positioning on Merck & Co. just flashed its most bearish read in three weeks. The put/call ratio hit 0.8468 on August 21 — 3.2 standard deviations above the 20-day mean of 0.763. That's the loudest options…
Short sellers are stepping back from REMX. Yet options traders are placing their most bearish bets in a year. The two signals point in opposite directions — and the gap between them is the story. Short interest in REMX…
All eyes are on Wednesday. NVDA reports after the close on August 26 — its $5.2 trillion market cap makes it the market's single most important earnings event of the year. Options flow is already bullish. Any guidance…
Options flow across US markets is skewing bullish. Micron Technology leads semiconductor positive bets this week. The stock is up 239% year-to-date. Analysts see 57% further upside. Options buyers appear to…
Hewlett Packard Enterprise scored the session's standout upgrade. An analyst moved the stock to a higher rating. The consensus shifted — nine analysts now hold a Hold view, versus thirteen previously. HPE carries a…
Wall Street is shifting positions across several sectors this week. The clearest upgrade belongs to HPE. Analysts moved the stock to a higher rating tier, lifting the consensus from Hold toward Buy. The $71 billion…
Insider filings lit up this week, with a wave of high-value sales dominating the activity. The biggest story is MEDP. Founder and CEO August Troendle filed sales of over $26M worth of shares on August 21. He sold at…
Short sellers moved decisively this week. Reddit saw the biggest notable jump among liquid names. Its SI % FF rose to 17.6% from 13.5% in just seven days — a 4.2 percentage-point swing. Bears appear unconvinced by…
Japan captured $12.2B in net ETF inflows this week. That made it the second-largest geography by weekly net flow, behind only the U.S. at $34.6B. The gap between those two and the rest of the world was stark. The U.S.…
Options traders are loading up on calls across the semiconductor space ahead of this week's packed earnings schedule, with NVDA at the centre of the action. Micron Technology ranks first for bullish options bets over…
All eyes point to Wednesday. NVIDIA reports after the close on August 26. Its market cap stands at $5.2 trillion. Options traders are positioned on both sides, with RSI sitting at a dead-neutral 51. Expectations are…
NVIDIA reports Wednesday. That is the headline event of the week. NVDA posts results after the close on August 26. Its market cap stands at $5.2 trillion. Expectations are sky-high after a year of AI-driven…
JS Global Lifestyle (1691) arrives at its August 28 interim results with short sentiment at its most elevated in recent memory — and a borrow market that remains deeply stressed even after a partial stabilisation. The…
ELMT drops into its August 28 earnings date on the back of a sharp 11% single-day fall and a lending market that has quietly tightened over the past month. The borrow story is the most telling signal heading into the…
PSNY heads into its August 27 earnings report with a borrow market that remains firmly restricted and short-side conviction running well above EV peers. The lending backdrop is the clearest indication of how the market…
nCino reports fiscal results today with short sellers pulling back sharply — yet still holding a position large enough to make this print genuinely consequential for both sides. The short interest story is the most…
S heads into its August 26 earnings report with one of the most coordinated analyst target-raising campaigns of the summer — yet the stock is still pulling back. The pre-earnings analyst activity is unusually broad and…
