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URA Shorts Rebuild as Uranium ETF Retreats

URA, the Global X Uranium ETF, enters August with shorts rebuilding sharply against a backdrop of price weakness — the key question is whether the positioning shift reflects sector conviction or tactical hedging into…

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VONG Drifts Lower on the Month as Shorts Quietly Double

VONG, the Vanguard Russell 1000 Growth ETF, sits at an odd crossroads this week — the share price has barely moved, yet short interest has surged to levels not seen in recent history for this fund. The price story is…

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EIS Shorts Ease as Borrow Market Loosens

EIS, the iShares MSCI Israel ETF, heads into August with short sellers retreating and the borrow market moving firmly into easy territory — a notable shift for a geopolitically sensitive instrument that saw meaningful…

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Visa Bulls Rewarded as Analysts Pile In After Q4 Beat

Visa delivered its fiscal Q4 2026 earnings on July 28 and the Street's pre-print optimism was validated — the stock is up nearly 3% on the week to $366.13, and analysts have responded with one of the most uniform…

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XME Shorts Surge as Borrow Tightens Hard

XME, the SPDR S&P Metals & Mining ETF, enters August with short sellers making an aggressive push against the sector — and the lending market struggling to keep up. Short interest has climbed sharply, and the scale of…

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Delta shorts ease as Street raises targets post-earnings

DAL enters August with the most interesting tension sitting between a uniformly bullish analyst community and a stock that has given back ground since reporting earnings in mid-July. The Street's post-earnings reaction…

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SAIA Drops 18% After Earnings as Analysts Reset Targets

Saia enters August bruised — down 18% on the week to $347.63, the sharpest single-week decline the LTL carrier has seen in recent memory, and the entire freight sector is watching what comes next. The catalyst was…

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LYV Falls 5% After Earnings as Street Lifts Targets Anyway

Live Nation Entertainment delivered its Q2 print on July 30 and the market said no — the stock dropped 5.1% the next day to $174.13, even as analysts responded by raising targets across the board. The disconnect…

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BLDR Drops 9% Post-Earnings as Analysts Slash Targets

Builders FirstSource delivered its Q2 results on July 30 and the market's verdict was swift — the stock fell sharply, ending the week down 9% to $66.44, reversing all of the pre-earnings recovery and leaving shares 26%…

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DexCom Surges Post-Earnings as Street Lifts Targets en Masse

DXCM delivered a Q2 earnings beat that flipped the script entirely — the defensive hedging that dominated the pre-print note has given way to a broad analyst upgrade cycle and the stock's strongest weekly move in…

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STM Drops 29% in a Month After Earnings Shock

STMicroelectronics enters August carrying the weight of a brutal earnings reaction — a 20% single-day collapse on July 23 that has now extended to a 29% monthly loss, raising the question of whether the selloff has…

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MKTX Surges 39% But the Street Turns Cautious

MKTX enters the week of August 5 earnings in a peculiar spot: the stock just posted one of its best weeks in years, yet analysts are cutting targets and the only Buy rating on the Street disappeared on the day of…

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SOXX Short Sellers Ease Grip as Options Turn Calmer

SOXX arrives at the end of July having shed 21% in a single month — yet the positioning data tells a surprisingly measured story for a fund down that much. Short interest is genuinely elevated, running at 21.6% of the…

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TLT Bears Dig Back In as Price Slips to Four-Month Low

TLT ended the week on the back foot — the brief bear capitulation documented in Monday's note has stalled, with short interest edging back up and the ETF dropping another 1.2% to close at $82.25, now down nearly 5%…

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CHKP: Analysts Split After Earnings Miss

Check Point Software Technologies fell nearly 9% on July 31 after its Q2 results disappointed, and the post-earnings analyst scramble has left the Street more divided than it was heading into the print. The options…

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