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UBS analyst Joshua Spector trimmed targets across chemicals on Tuesday. Air Products and Chemicals saw its price target cut to $305 from $336, while Albemarle dropped to $150 from $175. Both names kept their existing…
UBER President and COO Andrew MacDonald filed on September 8 showing he bought $4.1 million of shares on September 4. The purchase, covering 54,325 shares at roughly $75.65 each, was a discretionary open-market buy…
Short sellers tightened their grip on several distressed names this week. MiniMed Group stands out as the biggest mover. Its short interest leapt from 41.3% to 77.7% of free float in just two weeks, a near-doubling…
The US labour market ended September at a record high. Nonfarm payrolls reached 159,044 thousand, the largest September figure since 1997, according to ORTEX alt data. Average hourly earnings hit $37.81, also the…
Options sentiment across the US market is sending mixed signals this week. Rail stocks are drawing unusual bullish flow. Meanwhile, beaten-down names like Rocket Companies are flashing warning signs through the options…
Today brings three confirmed earnings releases. RPM International reports Q1 2027 results this morning. Constellation Brands posts Q2 2027 numbers after the close. Apogee Enterprises holds its Q2 2027 call at 9am…
US nonfarm payrolls reached 159,044 thousand in September, the largest September reading on record since 1997, according to the ORTEX US Jobs and CPI dataset. Average hourly earnings hit $37.81, also an all-time…
UBS analyst Joshua Spector cut target prices on two chemicals names on Tuesday. Albemarle dropped to $150 from $175, keeping a Buy rating. Air Products and Chemicals fell to $305 from $336, with a Hold…
Insider filings from early September show a sharp split between conviction buying at the executive level and a major institutional stake unwind in Japan. The clearest cluster came from Hong Kong-listed Xinyi Glass…
MMED is the standout mover. Short interest hit 77.7% of free float, up from 28.1% just 30 days ago. That is a gain of nearly 50 percentage points. Shares to borrow are almost gone, with availability at just 1.5% of…
Fixed income is the story of the week. Bond ETFs pulled in $30.6B in net flows over the past seven days. That beats equity ETFs' $21.6B net intake. Over three months, equities still dominate with $474.7B in net flows,…
TSLA is the headline story today. The company beat Q3 delivery expectations, and analyst Gene Munster has since called it the start of something bigger, predicting Tesla will outrun traditional rivals. GM and Ford face…
Semiconductor names are drawing the heaviest two-sided options bets of the week, while biotech catches a sudden fear-driven bid after reports of plague cases linked to Russia. MU tops ORTEX options flow rankings on…
The earnings calendar gets busier from Tuesday, with a mix of consumer, industrial and airline names reporting through to Friday. No IPOs are scheduled in the next seven days. APOG Apogee Enterprises kicks off…
Citigroup's Joanne Wuensch made a flurry of medical device calls on Monday. She trimmed targets on three names while lifting JNJ to a $303 price target from $298, maintaining a Buy. Boston Scientific and GE HealthCare…
Bill Gates filed purchases of RSG (Republic Services) worth more than $170m in aggregate over the first three days of September, filings reported on 3 September showed. Gates holds a major stake in the waste-management…
Short sellers are piling into a handful of names with nowhere left to hide. WOLF leads the board. Its short interest sits at 80.4% of free float, with zero shares available to borrow. Bears have effectively cornered…
Multiple US-listed company insiders filed significant share sales in early September, with NVIDIA generating the largest figures by far. Board director Mark Stevens filed sales totalling more than $400 million in…
Short sellers added aggressively across several names this week. MMED (MiniMed Group) saw its short interest jump 10 percentage points in seven days. It now sits at 78.6% of free float. Borrowing costs run at nearly…
GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen spent $17.1 million buying 700,000 shares at $24.41 on October 2. He filed a Form 4 and an amended Schedule 13D the same day. The purchase was discretionary and open-market. No 10b5-1 plan was…
