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RGA Analysts Lift Targets Ahead of August Earnings

Reinsurance Group of America heads into its August 6 earnings report with a wall of rising analyst price targets, a stock up 13% in a month, and options traders positioned more bullishly than at almost any point in the…

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Analysts Cut Targets Ahead of CLDX August Earnings

Celldex Therapeutics heads into its August 3 earnings with a crowded analysts' desk, a stock down nearly 7% on the week, and fresh target-price cuts arriving from multiple directions on the same day. The most striking…

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Chubb Posts Q2, Street Raises Targets but Stays Neutral

CB has cleared its Q2 earnings hurdle, and the post-print picture is one of measured validation — targets moving higher across the board, the stock holding near $354.80, yet the analyst community declining to upgrade…

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PNQI Borrow Demand Spikes as Shorts Rebuild Fast

PNQI — Invesco's NASDAQ Internet ETF — has seen a sudden and sharp build in short-side demand over the past two weeks, a move that stands out against an otherwise calm positioning backdrop for the fund. The short…

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GLD Bears Fade Again as Options Skew Hits Yearly Extreme

GLD is entering the back half of July with shorts retreating for a second time and options traders at their most call-heavy in over a year — the rebuild that looked threatening on July 14 has already started to…

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AGNC Bears Dig In After Earnings Disappoint

AGNC Investment Corp. has now delivered its Q2 earnings print — and the reaction tells the story: the stock fell nearly 4% on the day, short sellers added exposure, and the analyst community responded with fresh target…

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Visa Earnings Are In — Now the Street Resets

Visa has just reported fiscal Q3 2026 results, and the stock closed Tuesday at $355.82 — down 1.3% on the day but effectively flat on the week, as the pre-earnings hedging that dominated three consecutive weeks of…

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EchoStar's Short Squeeze Unwinds as Earnings Loom

EchoStar enters its August 7 earnings window carrying a genuinely interesting contradiction: short interest has collapsed by nearly a third in six weeks, yet nearly one in five free-float shares remains sold short —…

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TNK Heads Into Earnings with Options Traders Turning Cautious

Teekay Tankers enters its July 29 earnings report trading at $75.56 — up 5% on the day and 4.6% on the week — with options positioning flashing the most defensive signal in months. The sharpest story this week is in…

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FOR Slides 11% as Post-Earnings Selling Overtakes Buyers

Forestar Group enters the back half of July under meaningful pressure, with the stock down nearly 11% on the week to $27.02 after reporting quarterly results on July 21 — a selloff that stands in stark contrast to the…

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MSCI Falls 10% on Earnings Day as Analysts Trim Targets

MSCI reported earnings on July 21 and the market's verdict was swift: the stock dropped 10% in a single session, erasing all of the optimism that had built through a week of analyst target raises ahead of the…

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SPYG Options Traders Turn Defensive as Growth ETF Slips

SPYG has drifted about 1.1% lower on the week to $118.05, but the more telling signal comes from the options market, where defensive positioning has climbed sharply toward a year-high. Options traders have turned…

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QQQ Bounces Hard — But Shorts Aren't Convinced Yet

QQQ clawed back 1.9% on Tuesday to close at $708.97, yet the week as a whole remains down 1.5% — and the short interest picture has shifted in a way that complicates the recovery narrative. The most interesting tension…

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KTOS Insiders Sell Into Rally as Earnings Count Down

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions bounced 5% on Tuesday but is still down 4% on the week and 11% over the past month — and the people closest to the company used that bounce to sell. The insider activity this week is…

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