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AllianceBernstein Holding L.P. enters the back half of August with a striking split: the lending market has all but given up on the short thesis, yet options traders are quietly adding more downside protection than at…
Energy Transfer LP has added another 3% this week to $21.42, closing roughly half the distance to a Street consensus that has been moving in only one direction since Q2 results landed. The analyst picture is the…
FIS enters the back half of August in an awkward spot: the stock is down 4.2% on the week to $40.95, analysts have just finished cutting targets post-earnings, and options traders are the most bullish they've been all…
THG heads into its September earnings window with shorts in retreat, analysts nudging targets higher, and the stock trading near a 52-week high — yet insiders have been steady sellers through the rally. The most…
The defining story for IWC this week is a rapid unwinding of short pressure — one of the cleanest reversals in the micro-cap ETF's lending market in months. Short interest has fallen sharply. At 4.3% of free float, the…
BIDU is heading into its rescheduled August 21 earnings event having already been punished — down 13% on Tuesday and 15% over the past month to $90.87 — with the Street now moving aggressively to reset targets in the…
DiamondRock Hospitality heads into the back half of August with a cleanly bullish setup: short sellers are pulling back, the Street is nudging targets higher, and the stock has reclaimed 4% on the week. The most…
BBNI, PT Bank Negara Indonesia's Jakarta-listed shares, gained just over 1% on the week to IDR 3,590 — a quietly resilient performance against a backdrop of broad weakness across Indonesian banking names, yet the stock…
IAU hits a one-month high and then retreats — yet options traders are the least defensive they've been all year. The standout this week is a growing disconnect between price action and options positioning. IAU closed…
Tencent Holdings enters the back half of August nursing a 6% weekly loss and a fresh earnings-season bruise — the stock fell more than 6% on the day its Q2 results landed on August 12, adding to a 4.7% drop from an…
Samsung Electronics heads into the back half of August carrying a striking contradiction: the stock just gained 12% in a week while insiders sold into every session and analysts see nearly 75% more upside from current…
Telefónica enters the back half of August with a quietly interesting setup — shorts have been unwinding steadily for weeks, borrow conditions are among the most relaxed in Europe, and the Street's forward earnings…
2330 enters the back half of August having shed last week's gains, closing Tuesday at TWD 2,380 — down 0.8% on the day and roughly flat over the trailing five sessions — as the stock consolidates after the…
8316 heads into the back half of August with the Japanese banking rally doing the heavy lifting — up 4.1% on the week to ¥6,900 — while short sellers show no sign of pressing the trade. The lending market tells a story…
SN. enters the back half of August having just delivered one of the more abrupt short-score resets in the medical devices space — an event that deserves more attention than the stock's near-flat weekly price move…
United Microelectronics Corporation enters the week in an uncomfortable spot: the stock has shed 17% over the past month, a CFO sold nearly $9 million worth of shares close to recent highs, and borrowing costs have…
Prudential plc reports next Wednesday, August 26, with short sellers having almost entirely vacated the stock and the chairman still adding shares below the current price — a setup that looks more like quiet confidence…
BP enters the back half of August in an unusual position: the stock is near multi-month lows relative to peers, yet the lending market shows almost no conviction from short sellers whatsoever. The peer divergence this…
Kinross Gold heads into the back half of August carrying a 19% one-month gain but facing its first real week of friction, with insiders selling into strength and the broader gold miner complex pulling back in…
GOOGL has found a footing, edging up 0.1% on Tuesday and posting a 0.1% weekly gain after the sharp pullback that defined the prior note — the bear thesis is not gaining traction, but the recovery has also stopped…
