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CMS Energy reports Q2 results on July 30 with options traders now more defensive than at any point captured in the prior preview — and the signal has intensified since the last article. The put/call ratio has climbed…
BXP arrives at today's Q2 print with short sellers quietly reducing exposure even as the analyst community remains divided on whether the stock's recent recovery has run ahead of fundamentals. Short interest has…
BA has dramatically changed its character since the last two previews: the stock closed Tuesday at $221.56, up nearly 5% on the day and 8% on the week, erasing the pressure that defined earlier coverage and narrowing…
Chip stocks tumbled on July 28 as an AI-driven sell-off deepened. The Nasdaq 100 briefly entered correction territory ahead of a packed Big Tech earnings week. NVDA sits at RSI 42. TSLA is more extreme — RSI just 27.3…
Analyst target prices shifted across several sectors today. The moves point to diverging views on industrials and healthcare. NUE led the positive revisions. The consensus target for Nucor Corporation rose to $273.88…
Insider filings this week reveal a wave of selling — but one European standout is moving in the opposite direction. The biggest story out of Japan: Fast Retailing's founder and CEO Tadashi Yanai filed disclosures on…
Short sellers turned aggressive this week. CHWY saw the biggest move — its short interest jumped to 81.2% of free float, up 15 percentage points in just seven days. Bears appear unconvinced by any near-term recovery…
Institutional money poured into equities and bonds last week. The overall tone is risk-on, but the cracks inside sectors tell a sharper story. Equity ETFs pulled in $30.0B net in the past week. Fixed income added…
Tuesday, July 28 is one of the busiest earnings days of the season. Over 30 S&P 500 names report. Markets are digesting results across logistics, beverages, aerospace, and payments — all at once. Meanwhile, a tech…
Analysts cut targets broadly on Monday. Most changes were modest, but the tone was mixed across sectors. Hubbell was the session's standout. Analysts upgraded the electrical products maker. The consensus moved from…
Corning reported its Q2 results on July 28, the event the market had been waiting for after a brutal month-long slide, and the critical question now shifts from whether numbers could arrest the decline to whether…
IQV reported Q2 results on July 28 and the stock responded with a 2.5% gain on the day, closing at $213.22 — up 4.6% on the week and nearly 12% over the past month. The question that dominated pre-earnings notes —…
Hertz Global Holdings heads into its August 6 earnings print with the short book at a new cycle high, Barclays slashing its target to match the current stock price, and the borrow market locked shut for a fifth…
JSW — Jastrzębska Spółka Węglowa — heads into its August 20 results with the ORTEX short score at a new record high and the lending market still deep inside historically tight territory, even as cost to borrow has…
SoundHound AI heads into its August 5 earnings report — now just eight days out — having snapped a two-week losing streak with a 4% gain on Monday, yet the structural tensions that have defined this name all month…
TLT has broken the consolidation that defined the past two weeks: bears are trimming, availability has expanded sharply, and the options market has rotated toward its most call-skewed stance in months. The prior four…
Rocket Lab Corporation arrives at its August 6 earnings print carrying a striking three-way split: the CEO has been selling heavily at prices well above today's close, short interest has held near its highest level in…
Netflix is trying to find its footing after a bruising July earnings reaction, with the stock up modestly on the week but still well below where analysts were pricing it just two weeks ago. The bounce is real but…
Tuesday is one of the heaviest days of the reporting season. KO and UPS both reported this morning. BA and PYPL report this afternoon. RCL is a key watch — any guidance upgrade could lift the entire cruise sector.…
Wall Street made several notable calls on Monday, with Citigroup leading a wave of target price adjustments across sectors. Charter Communications drew attention after Citigroup analyst Michael Rollins cut his price…
