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Rising bond yields are the defining story today. The 30-year Treasury yield climbed again after Treasury Secretary Bessent's bid to "at least double" long-term debt buybacks failed to calm markets. Wall Street called…
Rising bond yields are reshaping options sentiment across US equities. The 30-year Treasury yield climbed Friday after Treasury Secretary Bessent's bond buyback push failed to calm investors. That macro backdrop is…
Analyst target prices moved sharply higher on Thursday across several large-cap names. ROST saw the most direct action. Baird's Mark Altschwager raised his target to $270 from $250. He kept his Buy rating intact. The…
Bill Gates filed purchases totalling $346M in RSG (Republic Services) across 31 separate transactions between August 10 and August 19. That's a sustained, deliberate accumulation — not a one-off bet. Gates, already a…
Short sellers turned aggressive on two high-profile names this week. RDDT saw the biggest mover story among liquid stocks — SI jumped to 17.6% of free float, up from 13.5% just seven days ago. That's a 4.1 percentage…
Options traders are aggressively buying calls on PNC even as short sellers quietly build positions. The divergence is sharp and has been consistent across the past week. The put-call ratio on PNC hit 0.85 on August 20.…
Three firms raised price targets on Toll Brothers yesterday. Options traders rotated sharply toward calls. The borrow market went the other way — tightening even as shorts remain absent. The signals are pulling in…
Semiconductors dominate the day's market narrative from both sides of the trade. Options bears are piling into Sandisk — up 561% year-to-date — with heavy put flow signalling a bet the run is over. Micron Technology…
Options flows are sending mixed signals across US markets this week. Bearish bets cluster in semiconductors. Bullish conviction is holding in defensive and financials. Sandisk tops the options negative-bets…
Analysts raised targets across industrial and tech names this week. Deere & Company led the action. The consensus target rose to $656.83 from $654.79. Eleven analysts hold buy-equivalent ratings on the stock. Marvell…
Two headline-making filings dominated insider activity this week, painting a stark contrast between a quiet accumulator and a hurried exit. Bill Gates piles into Republic Services. Filings disclosed this week show…
Short sellers made a decisive move into RDDT this week. SI % of FF jumped from 13.5% to 18.1% in seven days. That is a 4.6 percentage point surge — the biggest weekly move among large-cap US names. Reddit's stock has…
$36.3B flowed into US-focused ETFs in the past week alone. That dwarfs every other geography and sets the tone for where institutional money is parked right now. The broader picture is risk-on — but with notable cracks…
PDD Holdings heads into earnings with options markets flashing clear bullish signals. Call positioning is outpacing puts by a wide margin. The stock is down 20.5% year-to-date, making the optimism striking. Peers…
Options markets are flashing unusual optimism ahead of several key earnings reports this week. The signal is clearest in PDD Holdings, the Temu and Pinduoduo parent, where call positioning is outpacing bearish bets by…
PDD Holdings reports on August 24 carrying a signal that stands out: options positioning is unusually bullish for a stock that dropped 14% after its last print. The call skew tells the clearest story heading into the…
PLS Group Limited heads into its August 23 full-year results with short sellers making a deliberate, month-long bet against a stock that has simultaneously recovered 15% over the past month to AUD 4.83. Short interest…
KZAP enters today's earnings release having shed more than 6% over the past week, underperforming a uranium peer group where most names held roughly flat or posted modest gains. The stock closed at KZT 31,810 on…
Prospect Capital Corporation's most compelling pre-earnings signal comes not from the options desk or the lending market, but from its own boardroom — CEO John Barry has spent over $6.6 million buying PSEC shares in…
OSI Systems reports today with short interest still elevated but continuing its month-long retreat — a dynamic that has now been confirmed across three successive days of data and remains the defining feature of the…
