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Short sellers are moving fast this week. Beyond Meat tops the pain chart — SI sits at an extraordinary 880% of free float. Bears added another 68 percentage points in just seven days. Cost to borrow spiked to 90%. Zero…
Japan was the biggest single story in ETF flows this week. It shed $75.5B in net outflows over the past week, a flow_imbalance of just 9.7. That is a dramatic reversal. Over three months, Japan had been a consistent…
Semiconductors and biotech are the week's short-selling focal points. WOLF tops the squeeze watch list with short interest at 85.2% of free float. Shares to borrow: zero. REPL surged 10.4 points in seven days to 37.8%…
Bullish options flow is tilting sharply toward semiconductors and consumer retail this week. ORTEX data shows MU leading positive bets over the past seven days. The stock is up 240% year-to-date. Analysts see 54.6%…
Analyst desks were busy Friday. The most notable move hit FICO, where the consensus target price rose to $1,476 from $1,473. Analysts kept their bullish skew — 15 Buy ratings stand against just one Hold. The…
Insiders at several major US companies filed significant sales this week, with the biggest cluster emerging at EHC. Encompass Health's CEO Mark Tarr sold $21.5 million worth of shares on August 10. The filing hit on…
Short interest spiked hard in several stocks this week. The biggest movers tell a clear story: earnings fears and sector bets are driving fresh short positions. REPL saw the sharpest jump. Replimune Group's SI % of…
Markets enter a pivotal week with a clear fault line running through them. Retail is rallying. Chips are under pressure. That divide is showing up across short interest, analyst calls, and options flow simultaneously —…
Options markets are sending a split signal on August 15. Bulls are piling into retail names. Bears are circling chips. Roku tops the ORTEX options score leaderboard this week. Its RSI sits at 73.7. Options bets are…
Telsey Advisory Group made a pair of bold retail upgrades today. TGT got a new Buy rating with a $170 target, up sharply from $150. ROST also earned a Buy and a $280 target, up from $265. Target's upgrade stands out.…
Short sellers are moving fast this week. The biggest single-week jump belongs to REPL — Replimune Group — where SI % of free float leapt +10.4 percentage points to 37.8% in just seven days. Analysts are actually…
Japan ETFs bled $75B in a single week. That is the dominant story in this week's fund flow data — and it stands in stark contrast to the prior three months, when Japanese funds pulled in nearly $79B. The reversal is…
The US 30-year bond yield hit its highest level since 2001 this week. Heavy AI-driven bond issuance from hyperscalers like AMZN and GOOGL is pushing up borrowing costs in non-dollar markets too. The Treasury market is…
ENRD approaches its August 18 earnings print with one of the most punishing borrow markets in the Nasdaq small-cap universe — a combination of near-zero availability and triple-digit borrowing costs that tells a vivid…
Klarna enters Monday's earnings with options traders making one of the most aggressively bullish calls the stock has seen since its IPO — a positioning shift that has accelerated even since the article published three…
PONY reports on August 18 with a stark gap between where analysts think the stock should be and where it actually trades — that disconnect is the central tension heading into the print. The bull case rests almost…
NUAI enters its August 17 earnings report carrying one of the most extreme short-side setups in the market — 43% of the free float is sold short, and the borrow pool is almost entirely consumed. The borrow market tells…
Replimune Group heads into its August 18 earnings print caught between a sharp short-interest build and the most concentrated analyst upgrade cycle the stock has seen in months. The short-side story is the most…
BIDU heads into its August 18 Q2 earnings with short sellers meaningfully pulling back — a sharp reversal from conditions that looked far more hostile just weeks ago. The borrow market tells the most striking story.…
Analyst desks are sending mixed signals on semiconductors. Applied Materials drew two conflicting calls on the same day. UBS analyst Timothy Arcuri cut his target to $675 from $705. Craig-Hallum's Christian Schwab went…
