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The clearest signal this week: institutional money is rotating hard away from Technology and into fixed income, defensive sectors, and Asian markets. Information Technology ETFs bled $3.1B in net outflows over the past…
SOXL has staged a sharp reversal. The 3x semiconductor ETF is up 15% on the week. Yet options traders are the most bearish they have been all year. That tension is the story right now. A week ago, short interest sat…
July nonfarm payrolls unexpectedly contracted, yet US equity futures climbed higher this morning. The market is reading the weak jobs print as a signal the Fed may ease sooner. Futures on the S&P 500 and Nasdaq both…
Options positioning on NBIX has flipped sharply since earnings. The put-call ratio hit 1.00 on August 6 — the highest in three months and a z-score of 3.3 standard deviations above the 20-day mean of 0.85. That is a…
Today brings a cluster of confirmed S&P 500 earnings. AIG, AFL, TTWO, and VST all report Friday, August 7. Power producer Vistra reports at 2pm ET. Take-Two Interactive follows — markets will focus on GTA VI launch…
The Trade Desk faced a wave of analyst cuts on August 7, with at least three firms downgrading or slashing price targets. Truist Securities downgraded TTD to Hold from Buy. The firm cut its target sharply from $35 to…
A single ILMN board member filed a wave of sales this week. Keith Meister, whose asset management firm holds a board seat at Illumina, disclosed over $130 million in sales across August 4–5. He sold at prices between…
Short sellers picked up the pace on GME this week. GameStop's SI % of Free Float climbed to 14.3%, up from 13.1% just seven days ago. The meme stock remains a prime target despite thin bearish logic beyond…
Atlassian is the standout mover this morning. Shares jumped more than 30% premarket after strong quarterly results. The software firm beat expectations on both revenue and guidance. QuinStreet also surged over 25%…
Today brings a cluster of S&P 500 earnings. AFL kicks things off this morning. AIG follows at 12:30 ET. Power producer VST reports at 2pm ET — the $47B energy stock has drawn attention amid AI-driven electricity…
Analysts raised price targets across several sectors today. The moves follow a busy earnings week. ABNB got a target bump from the analyst consensus, now averaging $159.80. That's up from $158.35. The short interest is…
Recent insider filings show a clear split between buyers and sellers across US markets. The most bullish signal came from BSX. Boston Scientific CEO Michael Mahoney filed a $9M purchase on August 5. He bought 186,240…
Short sellers are stepping up bets on pet retailer CHWY. Short interest hit 81% of free float this week. That is up 5.4 percentage points in just seven days — the biggest weekly jump among large-cap US stocks. GME is…
Information Technology ETFs shed $3.1B in net outflows this week. That is the sharpest single-sector reversal of the week. Over three months, the same sector pulled in $78B — the gap reveals a sharp short-term…
T1 Energy reported this morning with its lending market at the most extreme readings in its history. Three separate signals converged this week — short interest, borrow availability, and cost to borrow — all pointing…
Warner Bros. Discovery said the Disney bundle is working. Churn is falling. Subscriber growth is picking up. The data landed early Friday and puts WBD and DIS in a positive light. Netflix and Paramount Skydance are…
Redwire Corporation enters its August 7 earnings event having already delivered one post-earnings surge — and with the same structural tension largely intact. The stock closed at $11.83 on August 6, up 40% on the week…
Rocket Lab Corporation heads into its August 10 earnings report having clawed back further ground since the prior note — yet the three signals that defined earlier previews have not meaningfully shifted. The stock…
APC reports this morning with short sellers meaningfully reducing exposure over the past month, even as the past week saw an unusual spike in estimated short shares outstanding. The most notable shift in positioning is…
AMRZ reports half-year results on August 7 with one signal standing well above the rest: its own CEO bought the stock aggressively when it fell below CHF 50 in May, a cluster of insider purchases that now looks…
