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The gold miners ETF has rallied 38% in a month. Now the lending market is flashing its tightest signal in a year. Availability on GDX has collapsed to 55% — down from 130% just one week ago. That means only about one…
Three weeks of post-earnings pressure are leaving marks on TJX. The cost to borrow shares has surged. Analyst sentiment has fractured. And the stock is down nearly 8% on the week. Cost to borrow jumped 79% over the…
Morgan Stanley initiated RIO with an Underweight rating and a $90 target on August 24. The stock closed at $105.30. That gap — 14.5% above the new target — is the sharpest bearish signal to hit Rio Tinto in months, and…
All eyes are on NVDA this week. The $5.2 trillion chip giant reports Wednesday after the bell. AI data centre spending remains the central question. Options traders sit on both sides — the stock's RSI is at 51,…
Analyst consensus target prices moved broadly higher on Sunday. The busiest action landed on EL, ADI, and INTU. Estée Lauder drew the freshest attention. The consensus target for EL edged up to $105.85 from $105.54.…
Two starkly contrasting insider signals emerged this week from US markets. Bill Gates filed purchases of RSG stock worth $347 million across 31 transactions between August 10 and August 19. He paid around $215–$223 per…
Short sellers added heavily to RDDT positions last week. Reddit's short interest jumped 4.1 percentage points to 17.6% of free float. The move comes as the $22bn social media platform faces scrutiny over AI…
US equities pulled in $37B this week alone. That is the single largest regional inflow, with a flow imbalance of 67 — firmly in buying pressure territory. The broader picture is risk-on, but with notable shifts brewing…
NVDA dominates everything this week. The $5.2 trillion chip giant reports Wednesday after the bell. Options traders are split right down the middle — the RSI sits at 51, signalling maximum uncertainty. Adding fuel to…
JSW — Jastrzębska Spółka Węglowa — heads into its August 27 results with the stock up 14% over the past month and the short squeeze pressure that dominated recent previews beginning to decompress, yet with enough…
Guangxi Guiguan Electric Power reports its next earnings on August 25 after a month that has tested investor patience — the stock has fallen 12% over the past 30 days to CNY 9.90, and the broader peer group has moved…
SHAZ arrives at its August 27 earnings print down 23% on the week and 17% on the month — a sharp reversal for a stock that had posted extraordinary year-to-date gains — yet the borrow market and options positioning…
Williams-Sonoma drew the sharpest analyst attention this week. The consensus target price rose to $231.25 from $229.25. The retailer carries a $28 billion market cap. Short interest sits at a modest 4.7% of free float,…
PONY reports again on August 25 — just one week after its August 18 release — and the most notable shift since that print is not in analyst targets but in the lending market, where availability has dropped…
IREN arrives at its August 27 earnings release with one of the most compressed short setups in digital infrastructure — and a wall of analyst optimism standing directly against it. The short base has rebuilt after the…
Affirm Holdings reports fiscal Q4 results on August 25 with the Street broadly constructive but the stock carrying a cautious options skew and a notable short-cover trend into the event. The most striking feature of…
ZM heads into its August 25 earnings release with options positioning at its most defensive reading in months, even as the stock has rallied sharply and short sellers have been quietly retreating. The clearest…
The biggest insider story this week is a name you wouldn't expect on a filing: Bill Gates. Filings reported on August 20 show Gates bought $36.4 million in RSG — Republic Services, the US waste management giant. He…
OKTA heads into its August 26 print with a widening gap between analyst conviction and the stock's actual behaviour — the bullish momentum documented five days ago has continued, but the price has moved further in the…
WDAY heads into its August 25 results with short sellers still unwinding, options traders leaning bullish, and a stock propped up by both a 42% one-month rally and a live take-private story that no earnings print can…
