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Short sellers made fresh moves this week. Data as of August 4 shows clear winners and losers among the bears. Five9 saw the sharpest rise in a mid-cap name. Short interest jumped to 15% of free float, up from 11.3%…
China led all geographies this week. ETFs tracking Chinese equities pulled in a net $9.1B over seven days. That's nearly double Japan's $7.6B inflow. The contrast with the three-month picture is striking. Over 3…
SNAP surged 14.9% on August 4 and 21.4% on the week. Ten analyst firms updated their targets the same day. None upgraded the stock. The analyst response after earnings was uniform in direction — and cautious in tone.…
Walt Disney is today's biggest mover. The company flagged weakening visitor numbers at its Shanghai and Hong Kong parks. Management said the slowdown seen in Q3 is continuing into Q4. Disney was already under pressure…
Options market signals are flashing mixed. Bearish flow dominates several large-cap names. But squeeze pressure is building in pockets of the market that traders should watch. DIS drew fresh attention on Wednesday. The…
Wall Street turned bullish today. Three notable upgrades stand out from the latest analyst activity. ANET drew the biggest move. Rosenblatt's Mike Genovese lifted his price target to $280 from $210 — a 33% jump. He…
Fresh filings reveal a wave of selling by senior executives and major shareholders over the past week. The biggest US story: Charles Schwab, founder and Co-Chairman of SCHW, filed sales totalling over $30M across four…
Short sellers had a busy week. GME short interest climbed to 14.8% of free float, up nearly 2 percentage points in just seven days. That puts GameStop back on traders' watchlists as social buzz around the meme stock…
Ten analyst firms slashed targets on SRAD in 48 hours. Options traders promptly ignored them. That split is the defining tension in Sportradar right now. The wall of target cuts tells one story. A put-call ratio at its…
The lending market for BBDO has flipped completely in three weeks. Availability has collapsed from effectively unlimited to just 33% — and every share in the pool is now lent out. That is a dramatic reversal. As…
Tuesday delivers a heavy S&P 500 reporting slate. Walt Disney drops results pre-market alongside a headline-grabbing move — the company has sold its A+E Networks stake to Hearst. The deal signals Disney is pruning…
Earnings season is driving a sharp divergence in options sentiment. Bullish and bearish bets are piling into the same names — but for very different reasons. Micron Technology sits at the top of both the positive and…
Today is packed with major S&P 500 reports. Walt Disney releases results pre-market. CVS Health holds its earnings call at 8am ET. eBay and MetLife both drop numbers after the close. Kraft Heinz also reports today —…
Analyst activity on August 5 leaned bearish on two industrial and utility names, while a dental supplies stock received a notable target lift. WEC Energy Group was downgraded by consensus today. The $35.6 billion…
Carlos Slim Hélu, the Mexican billionaire and one of the world's wealthiest individuals, has been quietly unloading his stake in PBF Energy. Filings published this week show he sold nearly 1.9 million shares for a…
Short sellers are reshaping positions fast this week. The data as of August 3 shows sharp divergence across sectors. Biggest movers higher: SLDB (Solid Biosciences) saw short interest jump nearly 8 percentage points in…
China led all geographies in the past week. Net inflows hit $9.1B, with a flow imbalance of 70.5 — well into buying-pressure territory. Japan added $7.6B. South Korea pulled in $5.4B and Taiwan $5.4B. The Asia trade is…
The semiconductor space is today's sharpest battlefield. MU Micron Technology leads options bulls with the heaviest positive flow of the week. The stock is up 191% year-to-date. SNDK Sandisk draws both the biggest bull…
Options traders are drawing clear battle lines in the semiconductor space this week. Negative bets dominate for TSLA, NVDA, and META, yet the picture flips sharply for memory names. MU leads the bull camp. Micron…
Markets brace for a packed reporting calendar this week. Over 1,600 companies are scheduled to release results between August 5 and 11. Today's headliners include KHC Kraft Heinz, ALL Allstate, and EBAY. Kraft Heinz…
