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Bill Gates filed disclosures showing he bought roughly $927 million worth of Republic Services shares across 65 transactions between 10 August and 2 September 2026. The purchases, spread across nearly four weeks of…
Short sellers intensified positions in several well-known names this week. Hertz Global Holdings stands out as the most squeezed-looking stock among larger names. Its SI % FF sits at 73.5%. The cost to borrow has…
China ETFs pulled in a net $25.1B in the past week. That beat US-focused funds ($20.8B) for the top spot on weekly geography flows. The gap is striking: over three months, the US leads all geographies with $286.6B of…
e.l.f. Beauty is the standout result of the day. Revenue jumped 51% to $520.8 million and full-year FY27 guidance came in above estimates. That is a sharp contrast to the pressure visible in consumer-facing sectors…
Options sentiment is split heading into Thursday's session. Bullish bets dominate the week's flow for mega-cap tech names, while selective bearish positioning builds in software and solar. NVDA and MU top the…
Today brings a dense earnings schedule. Auto names dominate, and real-economy data adds texture to what investors should watch. Polestar Automotive reports today with a sharp split in leading indicators. Dutch car…
William Blair cut FIS from Buy to Hold on Thursday, the sharpest rating change of the day for the fintech giant. The firm issued no revised price target. FIS carries a market cap of $20.1 billion. Short interest sits…
UBER President and COO Andrew Gordon MacDonald filed a purchase of $4.1 million worth of company shares in early September, buying 54,325 shares at roughly $75.70 each. The filing, reported September 8, marks one of…
Short sellers are building positions rapidly in a cluster of small and mid-cap names this week, with Jaguar Health seeing the sharpest move among names with a meaningful base. Its SI % of FF jumped from 33.4% to 114.3%…
Short sellers are circling a cluster of distressed US names with fresh intensity. WOLF tops the list with 88% of its free float sold short. Zero shares are available to borrow. The cost to borrow sits at just 2.6%,…
Microsoft rejected a multibillion-dollar AI infrastructure deal with UK firm Nscale, the Financial Times reported Thursday. The move comes as hyperscalers grow more selective about capacity commitments. It adds…
Semiconductor names dominated bearish options flow this week. NVDA, AMD, and MU all rank among the highest negative-bet volumes over the past seven days, according to ORTEX screening data. Micron saw the largest raw…
Europe's aviation market posted a significant warning sign in April 2026. EU air passengers totalled 128.7 million, the smallest April count in four years, well below the 159.5 million recorded in April 2022. The…
Today is packed with earnings. Nintendo reports Thursday, the gaming giant carrying a market cap above $60 billion into its print. Heidelberg Materials also reports today, as does French pharma firm Ipsen and Spanish…
William Blair cut FIS to Hold from Buy on Thursday, the most decisive rating change in a session dominated by UBS revising price targets across multiple sectors. Analyst Cristopher Kennedy at William Blair gave no new…
The most striking insider pattern in the latest available filings covers the period through early September 2026, with several high-profile chief executives disclosing large open-market sales. Fast Retailing's founder…
Short sellers turned up the heat on car rental and EV names this week. Hertz Global Holdings tops the most-shorted list with 73.2% of its free float sold short. Its cost to borrow hit 164%, and zero shares are…
China ETFs pulled in $25.1B in the past week, the biggest single geography inflow in the period. That beat the US ($20.8B) despite the US market being roughly 15 times larger by assets under management. The buying…
Thursday brings one of the week's busiest reporting sessions. Sempra and The Southern Company dropped results before the US open. Cardinal Health, a $58.6B healthcare distributor, also reported. After the close,…
Options activity is tilting toward calls this Thursday, with several names showing clean bullish sweeps into a heavy earnings calendar. The pattern is clearest in names where the market has already taken a…
