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USO — the United States Oil Fund — had an unusual week. The fund jumped 4.1% on Tuesday alone and is up more than 15% from a month ago, yet short interest climbed 11% over the same five sessions. The lending pool is…
Duke Energy enters the week caught between two uncomfortable signals: the CEO just made his largest open-market sale of the year, and JP Morgan cut its price target the same day, citing a postponed North Carolina…
Wesdome Gold Mines posted a record earnings quarter — and shorts are paying for the privilege of betting against it. The stock surged 26.8% this week to CAD 30.02, driven by a Q1 print that showed adjusted EPS of…
Energy Transfer LP arrives at the midpoint of May with an unusual combination: a rush of analyst target upgrades on one side, and a meaningful jump in short interest on the other. The Street has moved quickly in the…
Under Armour entered May under heavy short pressure. It exited the week's opening session in freefall, with analysts queuing to slash targets after a guidance revision that confirmed the turnaround is taking longer…
GameStop heads into the week of June earnings with a notable divergence: short sellers have covered aggressively over the past month, but options traders just flashed the most defensive signal of the year. The options…
KMDA reported Q1 2026 results this morning — and the market got a mixed message. EPS came in at $0.07, well short of the $0.12 consensus. Revenue of $45.2 million also missed the $46.7 million estimate. Yet management…
Integer Holdings enters the week with fresh bullish momentum from the Street — but short sellers are quietly adding to positions at the same time. Oppenheimer initiated an Outperform rating on Integer this morning with…
Western Alliance Bancorporation heads into the back half of May with the Street firmly in bulls' corner — but quietly dialling back ambitions as the stock slips 5.3% on the week to $77.56. The analyst story is the…
Gladstone Investment Corporation just delivered a fiscal Q4 miss on both earnings and revenue — yet shorts are abandoning the trade at pace, and options positioning has turned almost entirely bullish. The clearest…
Samsung Electronics enters the week of May 11 having staged one of the most dramatic recoveries in its recent history — a 20% weekly gain that has pulled the stock to ₩279,000 — but a looming strike at its chip…
BRKM5 is one of the week's most dramatic single-stock stories in Latin America — a 29% surge in a single session, driven by a news catalyst that has fundamentally changed the risk picture for Brazil's largest…
NOVO B enters the week in a rare position — a 23% monthly price recovery running alongside a lending market that is quietly loosening, even as short positioning has nearly tripled from its April lows. The most telling…
Takeda Pharmaceutical enters the week with a curious tension: cost to borrow has tripled in a matter of days, yet the lending pool itself is virtually unlimited. The borrow-cost move is the week's most striking data…
ASML enters the back half of May with valuation multiples quietly softening and the stock's sharp Tuesday sell-off cutting across an otherwise positive week — a split that captures the stock's current tension between…
Sony Group Corporation enters the mid-May session riding one of its strongest weekly performances in recent memory, yet the stock still trades at a wide discount to where analysts think it belongs. The stock closed at…
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (2330) heads into mid-May with a striking contradiction: short sellers are paying twice as much to borrow shares as they were a week ago, yet the lending market itself remains…
9984 enters the post-earnings week having pulled off one of the more striking vindication trades of the year. The stock has risen 58% over the past month and 10.4% in the last five days alone. The catalyst is now…
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (8316) enters the post-results week having just posted a record full-year net profit — and short sellers appear to have already taken the hint. The most striking data point this week…
AIR came into the week with a strong Q1 earnings print at its back, then gave some of those gains back — closing Tuesday at €172.52, down 3% over the prior five sessions despite having surged 5.5% the day results…
