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Two Scandinavian blue chips are drawing significant insider buying this week. Industrivärden AB filed on July 28 that it bought 1.3 million shares of VOLV B (AB Volvo) for a combined $48.2 million. All trades occurred…
Short sellers made dramatic moves this week. Chewy saw the biggest jump — SI % of free float leapt to 81.2%, up from 65.8% just seven days ago. That's a 15-point spike in a week. Bears are betting hard on the pet…
Information Technology ETFs shed $5.7B last week. That is the single biggest story in fund flows right now. Over three months, the same sector pulled in $68.6B. The reversal is sharp and worth watching. The U.S. led…
Three data streams on REXR are now pointing the same direction. Call buyers have surged in. Short sellers continue to exit. The borrow market has loosened dramatically. Post-earnings, the picture looks notably more…
Today is one of the most active reporting days of the season. UPS delivered results this morning and revealed it cut 2 million lower-margin Amazon parcels per day from its network. That's a deliberate…
AI chip stocks are drawing the heaviest bearish options flow this week. A deepening tech sell-off, flagged across major financial media on July 28, is pushing put activity sharply higher in semiconductors. NVDA sits at…
Analysts delivered a split verdict on Monday. Tech names won upgrades while healthcare stocks took target cuts. Datadog received the most bullish call of the day. Citigroup's Fatima Boolani raised her target to $300…
Short sellers ramped up bets against CHWY sharply this week. Short interest hit 81.2% of free float — up 15.4 percentage points in just seven days. That's the biggest weekly jump among mid- and large-cap US stocks. HTZ…
July 28 is one of the busiest days of the season. More than 30 S&P 500 companies report today. KO and UPS kicked off the morning. BA reports this afternoon, with cash burn and delivery numbers in focus after a…
Wall Street delivered a notable downgrade to INTU today. Analysts cut the $81 billion fintech giant from Hold to Sell. The consensus target fell to $456, down from $463. With short interest at 5.7% of free float, bears…
Silver Lake, the private equity giant, filed this month to show it sold $228 million worth of DELL shares. The sales ran from June 26 through July 9. Silver Lake holds a board seat at Dell and remains a 10% owner. The…
Short sellers turned aggressive this week. CHWY saw the biggest jump among mid-to-large caps. Its SI % of Free Float leapt from 63.3% to 79.2% in just seven days. That is one of the sharpest weekly moves in the US…
The biggest story this week is a sharp reversal in tech sector flows. Information Technology ETFs shed $5.7B over the past seven days. That contrasts sharply with $68.6B in net inflows over the prior three months.…
Options traders are loading up on downside protection. The put-call ratio hit 2.08 on July 27 — a two-week high with a Z-score of 2.24 against the 20-day mean of 1.99. Earnings are due August 7. The stock closed at…
Tuesday is one of the busiest days of the earnings season. Over 30 S&P 500 companies report today alone. KO and UPS kicked things off this morning. BA reports this afternoon, with investors zeroing in on cash burn and…
Slide Insurance Holdings heads into its Q2 print with short sellers adding positions at a pace that demands attention ahead of the release. The most striking development is in short interest. Shorts have grown by…
SIRI heads into its July 30 print with a fresh analyst upgrade changing the pre-earnings narrative. Wells Fargo upgraded Sirius XM to Equal-Weight from Underweight on Monday, setting a $30 target — just below the…
Noble Corporation reports Q2 results today against a backdrop where bearish positioning has accelerated sharply even as the stock has rebounded strongly — a tension that makes this earnings release unusually…
FTAI Aviation reports after Tuesday's close having already survived one earnings cycle this cycle — the July 24 preview event passed with a mild -1.2% reaction — but the stock at $214.15 is still 18% below its…
FirstSun Capital Bancorp reports today with short sellers accelerating positions just ahead of the print — the most notable pre-earnings signal in an otherwise quiet setup. Short interest has climbed sharply in recent…
