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NWCL has shed more than 40% of its value over the past month, yet the lending market tells a more complicated story than simple bearish conviction. The price decline is the headline. newcleo closed at $4.25 on October…
SKYD heads into its November 4 earnings print with short sellers still building positions, options traders turning more bullish, and two of the biggest names on Wall Street shifting constructively in the same week. The…
The sharpest theme crossing every data type today is auto-loan stress. ORTEX consumer credit data puts delinquencies in Carvana's ABS trusts 4.6 standard deviations above their own history as of 15 October. That is the…
Bearish options bets are building across markets this week, with earnings season and mounting consumer credit stress pulling in the same direction. Carvana sits at the centre of the trade. ORTEX Alt Data puts…
A packed week of results kicks off today, with auto, tech and pharma names all reporting. There are no IPOs on the calendar for the next seven days. PLTR reports Q3 after the close on Monday. The AI data company has…
The sharpest signal in ORTEX's consumer credit dataset comes from the ABS trust filings it tracks through US regulators. As of 15 October, delinquencies in CVNA's asset-backed securities trusts were 4.6 standard…
JP Morgan's Vivek Juneja swept through the US banking sector on Friday, lifting target prices on six lenders in a single session. WFC, USB, TFC, RF, PNC, STT, and NTRS all received higher price targets from Juneja. The…
Fresh ORTEX data published today puts two car-market names at the centre of short-seller attention, while credit stress signals add weight to the bearish case. Carvana carries a short interest of 9.4% of its free…
Short sellers stepped up their activity this week, with several names seeing meaningful jumps in bearish positioning over just seven days. Wolfspeed remains the standout. SI hit 88.6% of free float as of 29 October, up…
The sharpest story in this week's ETF flows is a regional reversal. Japan was the third-largest geography by net inflows over 1 week, pulling in $6.5B with a flow imbalance of 91.9. Over three months, Japan posted a…
Short sellers are piling into electric vehicle names as October ends. Wolfspeed leads the pack with short interest at 88.6% of free float, up 4.8 percentage points in a week. Available shares to borrow have hit zero.…
Bears are active in the options market as Halloween closes out October. Two themes are driving unusual positioning: auto-loan stress and an EV sector under growing short pressure. Carvana sits at the centre of the…
AAPL is the biggest name on this week's earnings calendar. Apple reports after the close on Monday, November 2. The stock carries a market cap above $5 trillion. MAR and IDXX report Monday afternoon. EL and FOX also…
JP Morgan dominated Friday's analyst tape with a broad sweep of US financial stocks, lifting target prices across banks while cutting its view on one of the sector's priciest names. ARES Management was the standout.…
Corporate insiders filed a cluster of large open-market trades in late August and early September, with the most recent data from the vendor insider table covering activity through 8 September 2026. The standout buy…
EV stocks are drawing heavy short attention into Halloween. Wolfspeed leads the pack. Its SI % FF hit 88.6%, up 4.8 percentage points in just one week. Availability is zero, meaning shares to borrow are effectively…
Halloween brought no treats for electric vehicle stocks. Short sellers, options traders, and real-world registration data all pointed in the same direction on Saturday morning. The bearish case is unusually…
Options bears are circling the electric vehicle sector hard into October's close. Lucid Group stands out with a short score of 87 and 15 days to cover, while its RSI sits at just 36. Put volume has clustered around the…
A heavy reporting calendar opens this week. Autos, insurers, and media giants all face investors before Friday. Today and tomorrow bring the first wave. Ferrari N.V. kicks off the high-profile auto season on Monday,…
The headline number from the ORTEX US state fuel-mix registers is stark. The stock of non-plug hybrid vehicles fell to 14,476 in August 2026. That is the lowest reading since the series began in 2015, down from a prior…
