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Options sentiment is tilting bearish into a busy week of Q3 results, with put pressure building on several large-cap names ahead of key prints from GM and TSLA. ORTEX options scoring shows the most negative 7-day…
Q3 earnings season kicks into high gear this week. Today alone sees three major financial names report results. Bank of America reports Q3 figures before the open today. State Street also drops numbers this morning.…
Retail attention for ADIA (Adia Med Inc) hit 10.0 standard deviations above its own history in the week to 23 September. That reading, drawn from Wikipedia pageview data by ORTEX, is the standout signal of the week.…
TD Cowen ran a sweep through life sciences stocks, lifting targets across four names simultaneously. The most aggressive call landed on RVTY. Revvity's target jumped from $130 to $175, a 35% lift, with Cowen keeping a…
Hedge fund Corvex Management has filed disclosures showing it sold more than $215M of ILMN stock across 42 transactions between May and early September. The activist firm, which holds a board seat at the…
Short sellers turned aggressive this week on several well-known names. Chewy saw the sharpest move among large-cap stocks. Its short interest jumped 17.5 percentage points in seven days. It now sits at 87.3% of free…
The single biggest story this week is Japan. ETFs focused on Japanese equities pulled in $13.4B net over the past week, with a flow imbalance of 87.3. That is the strongest buying pressure of any geography other than…
Q3 earnings season kicks off in earnest this week. BAC reports Wednesday at 6:45am ET, with the market watching closely for net interest income trends. SCHW follows Thursday, where margin pressure has been a running…
Geopolitical jitters and an AI stock rout pushed options markets into defensive posture on Tuesday. Bearish bets dominated screens, with negative options flows most concentrated in the semiconductor sector. NVDA led…
Q3 earnings season hits its stride this week. Major financials report first, with streaming and autos arriving by Monday. Tomorrow, Wednesday 14 October: BAC kicks things off at 6:45am ET. The bank's Q3 results will…
TD Cowen swept through the life sciences sector with a string of target price upgrades. Thermo Fisher Scientific got the biggest absolute lift, with its target raised to $760 from $675. Revvity saw the most dramatic…
Bill Gates filed multiple purchases in RSG (Republic Services) in early September, disclosed on 1 to 3 September. The three open-market buys totalled roughly $94M, picking up around 424,000 shares at prices between…
Short sellers piled into CHWY last week. Short interest hit 87.3% of free float on 12 October. That is up 17.5 percentage points in just seven days. Availability stands at 506%, so borrowing shares remains easy for…
UnitedHealth Group reported a 61% jump in quarterly profit but the stock wavered. Investors appear cautious despite a raised full-year outlook. It is the clearest example today of a market that is hard to impress:…
Semiconductors and biotech are pulling opposite ends of the options market this week. Negative bet volume is concentrated in chip names, while a handful of large-caps are drawing near-total bullish flow. NVDA sits at…
Tomorrow kicks off a heavy Q3 reporting stretch. Bank of America posts results before the bell on Wednesday. Morgan Stanley reports the same morning at 7:30 a.m. Eastern. The Charles Schwab Corporation and The Bank of…
The Atlas EV Hub's Colorado registration series recorded a fourth consecutive monthly rise in July 2026. Battery-electric vehicle registrations reached 160,820 that month. Total plug-in vehicle registrations, which…
A wave of modest target price reductions swept across industrial and data names on Tuesday, while Wall Street moved the other way on energy refiners and social media. NXP Semiconductors took the most eye-catching cut…
Uber Technologies President and COO Andrew MacDonald filed an open-market purchase of $5.3 million worth of UBER stock on 8 September, across two transactions totalling 70,000 shares. The trade was made on 4 September…
Short interest in CHWY jumped 17.5 percentage points in a single week. It now stands at 87.3% of free float, placing it among the most shorted names on US exchanges. Yet availability sits at 506%, meaning shares to…
