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Options sentiment is shifting across multiple sectors this Monday. Market participants are reacting to yen intervention fears, a heavy earnings week, and a standout move in energy stocks. PBF Energy tops the ORTEX…
Today kicks off a packed earnings week. Loews reports this morning. Marriott follows at 12:30 ET. Vertex Pharmaceuticals — a $121bn biotech — posts after the close. Palantir also reports tonight. Markets will watch its…
Analyst desks were busy on Monday. Target price moves hit several names across tech, financials, and consumer staples. Seagate Technology grabbed the most attention. Analysts lifted the average consensus target to…
Charles Schwab is cashing out. The founder and co-chairman of SCHW filed disclosures showing he sold over $19.7M worth of shares between July 24 and July 29. His daughter, Director Carolyn Schwab-Pomerantz, filed a…
Short sellers are making big moves this week. HTZ — Hertz Global Holdings — now has 84.6% of its free float sold short. That's up from 74.9% just seven days ago, a jump of nearly 10 percentage points. Peer CAR — Avis…
Short sellers stepped up their bets hard last week. Several names saw their short interest jump by more than 9 percentage points of free float in just seven days. Car rental names under fire. HTZ (Hertz) now sits at…
Japan and China are the week's headline story. Japan pulled in $13.8B in net ETF flows over the past week. China added $12.9B. Together they outpaced every other geography except the US itself, which led with $24.7B…
China's manufacturing PMI slipped to 50.9 in July. The print missed estimates of 51.9 and fell from 51.7 prior. That's the weakest reading in months. Separately, the yen jumped 3% as speculation swirled over US…
CRWV arrives at its August 6 earnings report with short sellers reversing course — rebuilding positions into a stock already down 28% over the past month. The most notable shift since last week's note is the direction…
Hertz Global Holdings reports August 6 with short sellers at their most committed position of this cycle, every share in the borrow pool already lent out, and analysts cutting targets faster than the stock can…
Schr\u00f6dinger, Inc. arrives at its August 5 Q2 earnings with a structural short position that has quietly grown through July — yet the derivatives market remains conspicuously calm. Short interest has climbed to…
GRPN arrives at Thursday's Q2 earnings report having added 14.6% over the past month and 6.9% last week alone, with a short base that has grown rather than retreated and a borrow market that remains functionally closed…
CleanSpark reports on August 6 with short sellers still deeply entrenched, a Street that has been steadily raising targets, and options positioning that has quietly pulled back from last week's defensive extreme. The…
Ironwood Pharmaceuticals heads into its August 6 print with a rare and pointed tension: the stock is up 14% on the week, yet bears are pressing harder, not folding. Short interest has climbed nearly 20% over the past…
AppLovin reports second-quarter results on August 5 against a striking backdrop: the stock has shed 23% over the past month to $395.90, yet the Street's consensus remains firmly bullish and analyst price targets sit…
DoorDash heads into its August 5 earnings report with short sellers in retreat and positioning that looks notably uncrowded for a stock trading near all-time highs. The most telling signal in the lending market is how…
Airbnb reports second-quarter results on August 4 against a backdrop defined by heavy insider selling from its co-founders and a divided analyst community that still, on balance, sees modest upside from current…
Palantir Technologies goes into its Q2 print on August 3 with the short-covering story fully played out, leaving the market to price the actual business rather than positioning noise. The unwind documented across…
Datadog heads into its August 6 Q2 results with the analyst community unusually aligned — and unusually bullish — just days before the release. The most striking feature of the pre-earnings setup is the breadth of…
Shopify reports Q2 results on August 5 carrying a consensus of 29 buy ratings, a mean analyst target implying roughly 27% upside from current levels, and a stock that fell 4.3% in a single session on July 31 — leaving…
