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ASML heads into the final days of May down 1.3% on the week and 1.2% on the day — a modest retreat that looks almost calm compared to the bruising being taken by its US-listed peers. The peer divergence is the sharpest…
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (2330) enters the final days of May under mild but broadening pressure — down 2.2% on the week to TWD 2,205 — while the semiconductor names around it are falling considerably…
Hon Hai Precision Industry — known globally as Foxconn — enters the week after a strong Q1 beat with an interesting contradiction: the stock has given back 2% over five days even as the fundamental story remains…
Korea Electric Power Corporation enters the post-earnings period having confirmed what the pre-print slide feared: the May results landed badly. The stock fell roughly 4% on the day of the announcement and has shed 15%…
Mizuho Financial Group has moved sharply in the aftermath of its May 15 earnings print, and the short sellers who built positions ahead of that report are now in full retreat. The stock surged 5.5% on May 19, recouping…
NOKIA enters the week having gained 34% over the past month, yet almost every lending-market signal points to diminishing short conviction — a stock re-rating without a squeeze story attached. The most striking shift…
ArcelorMittal has reversed the bear momentum that defined early May — short interest has fallen sharply from its recent peak, while cost to borrow has crept higher on tighter supply. The short interest picture looks…
Elevance Health arrives at mid-week with its most constructive analyst backdrop in months — and a stock up 24% in a single month that is finally starting to earn its valuation lift. The catalyst shaping this week's…
FXI enters the back half of May with a borrow market that has effectively seized — and short interest climbing to levels that make this one of the most pressured large China-exposure vehicles in the market right…
GOOGL is doing something quietly notable this week: absorbing a 2.3% single-day pullback on Tuesday without any meaningful change to the underlying setup — short sellers remain at post-2025 lows, the Street is adding…
EnerSys reports Q4 fiscal 2026 results today — after a week in which the stock dropped 6.5% and options activity shifted sharply to its most call-heavy extreme of the past year. The most striking positioning signal…
Salesforce heads into its May 27 Q1 FY2027 earnings with the short-seller retreat that began mid-week accelerating — and options traders holding their most bullish posture of the past year. The short unwind is the…
Eagle Materials heads into the week after its Q4 earnings print with an interesting split: shorts have been quietly trimming positions while the broader construction materials sector suffers a sharp drawdown. The…
NRG Energy heads into this week as one of the worst-performing large-cap utilities in the US, having shed a quarter of its value in a single month after a brutal first-quarter earnings reaction. The story started on…
CNC heads into the back half of May with the analyst repricing still running — and the short-seller retreat now effectively complete. The most notable development this week is on the Street. Deutsche Bank's George Hill…
XLU has now shed nearly 4% over the past month, and since the last note published a week ago, the short-side rebuild has continued — SI is up another 5% on the week, and the borrow market is tighter than it was when…
XLK spent the week unwinding the short-side pressure that defined the prior note — yet options traders are moving in the opposite direction, making this a week of diverging signals. The short-selling story has turned.…
XLI, the industrial sector SPDR, has reversed course — the short-covering story that defined mid-May has stalled, and fresh bearish positioning is building into a weaker tape. The most significant shift this week is…
XLF has slipped back this week — down 1% to $51.10 — and the data tells a nuanced story: short sellers are no longer pressing harder, but options traders remain noticeably defensive. Short interest has broadly…
XLE has rallied 6.5% this week to $61.29, yet short sellers have not flinched — and the lending market is now fully exhausted. The borrow story dominates everything else this week. Availability has collapsed to 29% —…
