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Options traders face a split market this Saturday. Heavy bearish flow is running alongside a fresh meme-stock catalyst. Wolfspeed is the most striking setup. Short interest sits at 80.5% of free float. Availability of…
A short earnings week opens on Tuesday with APOG (Apogee Enterprises) and RPM reporting before the US open. RPM, the coatings and sealants group, releases its Q1 2027 numbers on Monday 6 October. Apogee holds its Q2…
Eurostat flash estimates for September show Spain's Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices annual rate reaching 5.0%. That marks a third consecutive monthly rise. France followed the same trajectory, with its HICP annual…
Jefferies analyst Paul Zimbardo made the sharpest call of the session, downgrading EIX to Sell from Hold with a target of $42, down from $53. That is a 21% cut to the target on the $20.7bn California utility. Short…
GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen filed a Form 4 on October 2 showing he bought 700,000 shares of the company's Class A stock on the same day at $24.41 per share. The trade cost him roughly $17.1 million out of pocket. It was a…
Short sellers pushed MMED (MiniMed Group) to a 78.6% short interest as a percentage of free float as of October 1. That is up 10 percentage points in just seven days. Borrow costs sit at nearly 20% APR. Availability…
The clearest signal from ETF flows this week: investors are pulling money out of technology stocks and piling into fixed income at a pace that rivals equity inflows. The divergence is sharp and worth watching. The US…
Semiconductors are the day's most contentious trade. QCOM filed a prospectus for 25 million new shares, wrong-footing options traders and dragging the sector into a defensive posture. Bearish options bets in chips are…
Semiconductor options flow is in focus today. A volatile week for chip stocks culminated in a sharp dilution move from QCOM. The company filed a prospectus for 25 million new shares, catching traders off guard. QCOM's…
Today kicks off a packed week of corporate results. Jefferies Financial Group reports after the close this evening, giving markets an early read on investment banking conditions. UK pub chain J D Wetherspoon also…
JP Morgan slashed its target on NKE to $33 from $40 today. Analyst Matthew Boss kept a Sell rating. The consensus target has also fallen, dropping to $41.43 from $45.63 across the broader analyst community. Nike's…
The most recent ORTEX insider data, filed through September 8, covers a wave of large institutional and executive disposals across international markets. The headline move was POSCO Co Ltd selling its stake in PSTV…
Short sellers are making bold new moves. Data from ORTEX as of October 1 shows several notable shifts in positioning across US names. MMED (MiniMed Group) sits at 78.6% SI of free float. That jumped 10.3 percentage…
Euro-area HICP inflation hit 3.8% in September, a third straight monthly increase. German HICP followed the same path, reaching 3.3%. Dutch new passenger-car registrations collapsed to 27,882 in September, the lowest…
Negative options bets dominated flow in US markets this week. Micron Technology led the screen for both positive and negative options bets, reflecting split sentiment ahead of its Q4 results. The stock is up 284% year…
The earnings calendar is thin heading into October, but a handful of notable names set up what could be an eventful end to the week. Today, JEF reports after the close. Jefferies Financial Group carries a market cap of…
Dutch new passenger-car registrations collapsed to 27,882 in September, according to Dutch vehicle registration data. That is the smallest September total since 2011 and a 22% drop from the 35,848 units recorded in…
NKE took the sharpest consensus hit in today's analyst activity. The average target price fell to $42.41 from $45.63. That is a drop of roughly 7%. With 26 holds and only 6 buys, the sentiment around the sneaker giant…
UBER President and COO Andrew Gordon MacDonald spent $5.3 million buying his own company's stock on September 4. The filing landed on September 8. MacDonald picked up around 70,000 shares in two tranches, lifting his…
Talen Energy saw the biggest shift among mid-to-large-cap names this week. Short interest jumped nearly 7 percentage points in five days, reaching 12.1% of free float. Bears are circling the nuclear power firm as…
