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Bitcoin miner shorts are rebuilding. MARA short interest hit 27.6% of free float as of 8 October, up from 27.0% a week earlier. CLSK sits at 32.7% and CORZ at 21.8%, both ticking higher. Bears are pressing the whole…
Q3 reporting season dominates the week. UnitedHealth Group and Johnson & Johnson report Monday. Bank of America and State Street follow Tuesday. Charles Schwab and BNY Mellon print Wednesday. Options volume across…
Banks and health insurers dominate options flow this week. JPMorgan Chase kicks off Q3 earnings season alongside Bank of America, UnitedHealth, and Charles Schwab. Options volume across financials has jumped ahead of…
Q3 earnings season kicks off in earnest this week. Major financials and healthcare dominate the calendar from Monday to Friday. UnitedHealth Group opens Monday with its Q3 2026 earnings call. The managed care giant…
Finland's Transport Register logged 4,337 new battery-electric car registrations in September. That is the highest September total since records began in 2014 and 68% above the 2,589 units registered in September 2025.…
Analyst sentiment shifted across several sectors on Saturday. The most striking move was a consensus downgrade on EL, Estée Lauder. The beauty giant slipped from the buy column. Its average target price sits at…
The most notable open-market purchase in the latest filing window came from UBER. President and COO Andrew Gordon MacDonald filed two buy transactions on September 4, disclosing combined purchases of roughly $5.3…
Short sellers turned aggressive on MMED this week. The MiniMed Group's short interest jumped to 102.9% of free float, up from 78.6% just seven days ago. That 24-point rise is the biggest weekly move among mid-cap names…
Active funds dominated the past week. They pulled in $81B of net inflows, against $16B for vanilla passive strategies. That gap is the sharpest signal in the data right now: investors are not just buying the market,…
Q3 earnings season is the main event. JNJ and UNH report Monday. Banks take over mid-week: BAC, STT, SCHW and BNY all drop numbers by Thursday. In Europe, Nordea Bank reports Q3 on Thursday. Options markets…
Q3 earnings season is setting the options tone this week. Banks open the books. The options market is paying close attention. ADP, Equinix, and CSX all show 100% positive options bets over the past seven days,…
Q3 earnings season kicks into gear this week. The biggest names hit Tuesday through Thursday. JNJ kicks things off Monday, reporting Q3 2026 results before the open. UNH follows on Monday with its earnings call at 8am…
Analyst activity on Saturday centred on two contrasting calls: a consensus downgrade for Estee Lauder and a string of upgraded price targets for airlines and autos. Estee Lauder suffered the sharpest rating change of…
Insider selling dominated filings this month, with tech and energy names leading the way. The biggest sellers over the past 30 days include executives at DELL, CRWD, and NVDA, according to ORTEX insider momentum data.…
MMED is the standout short interest story this week. The medical device maker's SI % of Free Float hit 102.9%, up 24 points in just seven days. Shares to borrow are nearly impossible to find. Availability stands at…
Q3 earnings season fires up today with a wall of financial results. JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, and Citigroup all report Tuesday morning. Bank of America and Morgan Stanley follow Wednesday. Options…
Options flow is tilting toward financials this week. Q3 earnings season opens with a cluster of major bank reports, and options traders are positioning ahead of the prints. JPMorgan Chase leads the queue. Its RSI has…
The biggest names in US banking dominate the next seven days. JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, and Citigroup all report Tuesday morning, firing the starting gun on Q3 earnings season. Johnson & Johnson also…
The standout signal this week comes from Finland's national vehicle register. Finnish authorities recorded 4,337 new battery-electric car registrations in September 2026. That is the highest September total since…
JP Morgan cut price targets across a sweep of US industrial stocks on Friday. The moves hit energy equipment, steel, automation and aerospace names in one batch. The biggest cut fell on GEV. JP Morgan trimmed its…
