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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…
Uber Technologies President and COO Andrew MacDonald filed two open-market purchases on September 8, disclosing that he bought 70,000 shares on September 4 for a combined $5.3 million. The trades are discretionary,…
Short sellers stepped up pressure on small and micro-cap names this week, while blue-chip short positions stayed almost flat ahead of the Q3 bank earnings season. WOLF remains the standout among mid-caps. Wolfspeed's…
US equity ETFs pulled in $86B in the past week alone. That is the dominant story in fund flows right now. The flow imbalance sits at 77.9, a strong buying pressure reading. Over three months, US-listed ETFs have…
Q3 reporting season kicks off in force this week. Financial heavyweights Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and UnitedHealth Group all report Monday. Bank of America and State Street follow Tuesday. Options flow…
Bank stocks are the centre of options activity this week. WFC, GS, BAC, C and UNH all face Q3 earnings prints in the days ahead. The queue of major prints is driving elevated hedging demand across the financials…
Q3 earnings season kicks into high gear this week. The biggest names in US finance report back-to-back from Monday through Friday. Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and UnitedHealth Group all report Monday. That…
JP Morgan cut price targets across at least seven industrial and consumer names in a single session, with GE Vernova seeing the sharpest reduction. The bank trimmed its GEV target to $1,150 from $1,330, a $180 drop,…
Bill Gates filed a cluster of purchases in Republic Services worth over $269 million across seven trading days in late August and early September, according to the most recent disclosures in ORTEX's insider data. The…
Short sellers have been busy this week. MMED (MiniMed Group) now has short interest at 102.9% of its free float, up 24 percentage points in seven days. Borrowing shares costs 42.7% annually. Availability sits at just…
The week beginning October 13 is the heaviest single earnings stretch of the quarter. UnitedHealth reports Monday morning. Johnson & Johnson follows Tuesday before the open. Wednesday belongs to the banks: Bank of…
Options sentiment is splitting sharply ahead of a packed earnings week. The divergence is clearest in financials and healthcare, where approaching results are pulling flows in opposite directions. Truist Financial…
The week starting October 13 brings a concentrated run of major financial and healthcare earnings. UNH kicks things off Monday morning. The managed-care giant reports Q3 2026 results at 8am ET, with analysts watching…
Japan's machine tool sector delivered one of the sharpest readings in the ORTEX alt data this week. Domestic machine tool orders rose 62% in August year-on-year, reaching JPY 51,517 million, according to the Japan…
TD Cowen analyst Gautam Khanna slashed price targets across the defence sector on Saturday. L3Harris Technologies took the sharpest hit. Its target fell to $280 from $370, a 24% reduction, while a Buy rating was kept.…
Li Ning Company's controlling vehicle, Viva China Holdings, has been buying aggressively. Filings reported in early September show it spent over $145m across five separate open-market purchases between August 27 and…
Short sellers made bold moves this week. MMED (MiniMed Group) saw the sharpest jump among mid-cap US stocks. Short interest hit 102.9% of free float, up 24 percentage points in just seven days. Borrowing availability…
Active ETFs pulled in $81B in a single week. That dwarfs every other strategy. Over three months, they attracted $176B with a flow imbalance of 74, indicating persistent buying pressure. The message is clear: investors…
The biggest story of the day is a potential buyout of CCC Intelligent Solutions. Bloomberg reported that GTCR and Elliott Management are close to a deal for the insurance software firm. Elliott is already a significant…
Options activity this week skews toward protection rather than speculation, with semiconductor names attracting the heaviest negative flows as chip stocks face renewed selling pressure. NVDA, MU and AMD top the…
