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POET shorts hold firm as borrow tightens into August earnings

POET Technologies heads into its August 12 earnings with short sellers entrenched at elevated levels and the borrow market tightening noticeably — a combination that makes the upcoming print one of the more charged…

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IREN Surges 30% Into Record Short Base

IREN just posted its biggest single-day gain in months — a 30.5% jump to $38.26 on July 30 — yet the short base has grown heavier still, setting up one of the more charged positioning conflicts in the digital asset…

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Groupon Bears Reload Into Earnings With Nowhere to Exit

GRPN enters its August 6 earnings print with short interest back at a cycle high, the borrow pool effectively sealed shut, and a stock that has just added another 10% on the week — a combination that has defined this…

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UCTT Bounces Hard but Earnings Loom Large

Ultra Clean Holdings enters its August 3 earnings call with one of the sharpest single-day reversals in the semiconductor equipment space — yet the stock has still shed 17% on the week and 36% over the past…

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Oils, M&A, and Short Squeeze Friday

Friday brings one of the heaviest earnings sessions of the year. ExxonMobil and Chevron both report this morning, facing pressure from softer crude prices. AbbVie releases pharma results at 9am ET — Skyrizi and Rinvoq…

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Put/Call Fear Hits Granite Construction

GVA's options market lit up on July 31. The put/call ratio spiked to 0.84 — its highest level in 52 weeks. That reading sits 4.3 standard deviations above its 20-day mean of 0.12. Options traders rarely show fear this…

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Wall Street Eyes Power and Crypto

Analysts are lifting targets on infrastructure and electrical services stocks. Oppenheimer upgraded EME (EMCOR Group) to Buy with a $1,200 price target. That is up from $1,100 previously. EMCOR carries a market cap of…

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Execs Cash Out as Schwab Founder Sells $20M

Insider selling dominated US filings this week. Charles Schwab, founder and co-chairman of SCHW, filed $20M in sales across July 28–29. He sold 189,000 shares at around $105 each. The filings appeared on July 30. AMAT…

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Bears Pile In: Rental Cars and Retail in the Crosshairs

Short sellers turned decisively bearish on rental car names and battered consumer stocks this week. The moves are among the sharpest seen in months. HTZ now carries 84.6% SI % FF — up nearly 10 percentage points in…

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Asia Surge Leads Risk-On Rally

Japan and China ETFs are pulling in billions this week. That is the clearest signal in the latest fund flow data — money is rotating hard into Asia while the US market quietly dominates absolute volumes. The US…

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Bears Circle Rentals as Semis Draw Calls

Earnings season is reshaping options flow. Bears are targeting the rental car space hard. CAR — Avis Budget Group — carries a short interest of 36.2% of free float. Its short score sits at 73.9. Options negative bets…

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Earnings Season Dominates, Bears Circle Rentals

Friday marks one of the busiest mornings of earnings season. ExxonMobil and Chevron both report today, with analysts expecting their strongest results in 15 quarters. Options flow is bullish on both names. Brent above…

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CFOs Cash Out, VSXY Stake Trimmed Hard

A wave of insider selling hit US markets this week. Three Darden Restaurants executives filed sales on July 30. CFO Rajesh Vennam sold $1.78M worth of shares on July 29. The HR Director and a Senior VP also sold the…

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Big Week: Oils, Pharma, and Tech Report

Today is one of the busiest days of earnings season. Over 170 S&P 500 companies report this week. Today — Friday, July 31 ExxonMobil kicks off the morning. The $650bn oil giant reports at 9:30am ET. Chevron follows at…

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Schwab Founder Dumps $22M in Shares

Charles Schwab, founder and Co-Chairman of SCHW, filed three sell transactions this week totalling over $22 million. The trades were executed between July 24 and July 29, at prices ranging from $101.72 to $105.82 per…

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Bulls Chase Datadog and DexCom Higher

Analysts lifted targets across several key names on Thursday. Technology and healthcare dominated the upgrades. Datadog saw its consensus target rise to $269.97 from $268.55. The cloud monitoring firm carries an $87…

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Bears Circle Car Rentals as Short Interest Spikes

Bears piled into car rental stocks this week. Hertz hit 84.6% short interest as a percentage of free float on July 30. That is up nearly 10 points in just seven days. Avis Budget Group is not far behind. Its SI% FF…

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Bears Pile Into Car Rentals and Retail

Short sellers turned bearish on rental car stocks this week. Hertz SI % of FF hit 84.6% on July 30 — up nearly 10 points in just seven days. Rival Avis Budget Group also saw shorts climb to 36.2% of FF, a 7-point…

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UFO Borrow Market Tightens Fast as Short Interest Hits 40%

The Procure Space ETF UFO has seen a dramatic shift in its lending market over the past week. Short interest has climbed to 40.4% of free float — and availability has collapsed with it. Short interest sat near 5% of…

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