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Trader NoteKAJM.Y

Kajima's Cost to Borrow Collapses from 290%

Kajima Corporation heads into its May 14 earnings with the most dramatic borrow-cost normalisation seen on this OTC-traded ADR all year — and a short book so thin it barely registers. The dominant story of the past six…

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Trader NoteKVHI

KVHI heads into earnings on its best month, worst week

KVH Industries enters its May 7 Q1 earnings call carrying a sharp contradiction: the stock is up 4% over the past month, but down 12% in the past week alone, closing Wednesday at $8.98. That weekly reversal is the…

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Trader NoteKT

KT Heads into Q1 Earnings Under New Leadership

KT Corporation enters its May 8 earnings call with a notable leadership change, a sharp short-interest reversal, and an upcoming results print that last delivered a surprise rally. Short interest collapsed by more than…

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Trader NoteKLAC

KLAC beats and hikes — but shorts are quietly rebuilding

KLA Corporation headed into its Q3 earnings report with a strong month behind it and shorts edging back in. The stock closed Wednesday at $1,816 — up 26% over the past month — then delivered numbers that validated that…

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Trader NoteNQC

CLM founder's death reshapes a quiet lithium micro-cap

Consolidated Lithium Metals heads into the close of April carrying a significant human story alongside its data — the April 17 passing of Rene Bharti, founder, VP, and one of the company's most recently active insider…

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Trader NoteJBLU

JetBlue shorts hold firm ahead of May earnings

JetBlue Airways heads into its May 14 Q1 results with nearly one in five shares of the float sold short — and with that position quietly expanding week by week, despite a market that staged a partial tariff-relief…

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Trader NoteTHRM

THRM Short Sellers Retreat, But the Story Stays Thin

THRM — Therma Bright Inc. — is a micro-cap TSXV-listed health care equipment company trading at CAD $0.055, and this week the most notable development is not what the market is doing to the stock, but what it quietly…

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Trader NoteITNF

ITNF's 27% Weekly Pop Lacks Fundamental Support

ITNF posted a 27% gain this week, closing at $0.0305 on April 29. That move is the headline. Almost everything else in the data is too stale to carry weight. The short interest data is over six years old.…

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Trader NoteITH

Paulson doubles down as ITH sheds 15% into earnings

International Tower Hill Mines heads into its May 7 quarterly release with a stark contrast between what the biggest money is doing and what the tape is saying. The headline this week is Paulson & Co's continued…

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Trader NoteCPAU

CopAur Insiders Buy In as Analyst Initiates Coverage

CopAur Minerals heads into the final days of April having quietly built one of the more consistent insider-buying records on the TSXV — and a fresh analyst initiation now puts a formal price target on the table. The…

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Trader NoteIFR

IFR Reverse Takeover Changes the Game

International Frontier Resources Corporation enters the final days of April defined by a single transformative event: an amalgamation agreement announced mid-month that sets the stage for a full reverse takeover. The…

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Trader NoteINIS

INIS: Short Interest Spike Follows FY2025 Results

INIS (Radnostix, Inc.) enters the final days of April with an unusual short interest pattern — a near-tripling in estimated short shares over four weeks followed by an abrupt halving in a single session, against a…

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Trader NoteGSS

Gossan Shorts Collapse as Micro-Cap Sits Quiet

GSS — Gossan Resources Limited — heads into the final days of April with short interest in near-total retreat and price grinding near the floor. The most striking development this month is the near-complete unwinding…

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Trader NoteIFP

Interfor Heads Into Q1 Earnings Under Analyst Pressure

IFP heads into its May 7 Q1 results with the Street downgrading the whole Canadian lumber complex and the stock down 6.4% on the week to C$9.85. The analyst picture has turned decisively more cautious. Raymond James…

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Trader NoteFVL

Eric Sprott's 27% stake anchors FVL as borrow costs climb

FVL closed out the week at CAD 1.14, down 6.6% over five sessions, as junior gold explorers broadly retreated. Yet the more interesting story is in the lending market, where borrowing costs have climbed sharply and an…

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