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The week of July 28 kicks off one of the year's most data-heavy stretches. MSFT, META, AAPL, and AMZN all report in a four-day window, representing well over $11 trillion in combined market cap. Macro data is…
Short sellers have cut their CTSH position by 15.2% in a single week. The stock gained 5.7% in the same period. With earnings due July 29, options traders are leaning bullish — but analysts keep trimming targets. Short…
Brent crude crossed the $100 barrier this week before pulling back as Trump weighed a military strike on Iran. The spike drove a global bond sell-off. Rising inflation expectations are forcing traders to reprice…
Today already brought results from CDNS, with Cadence Design Systems reporting after the bell. Tomorrow, Tuesday, SPGI kicks off the day at 7:15am ET. KO follows at 8:30am. HLT holds its earnings call mid-morning. F…
Analyst activity on July 27 leaned bearish on healthcare and regional banks. A clear bullish turn on gold and energy stood out against the cuts. HCA Healthcare took the sharpest target price cut of the session.…
A wave of significant insider selling has hit US markets, with three stocks drawing particular attention from filings reported over the past two weeks. ServiceTitan has seen the most relentless exit. Bessemer Venture…
Short sellers made bold moves last week. CHWY and HTZ led the charge in SI increases among mid-to-large US stocks. Chewy's short interest jumped to 79.2% of free float — up from 63.3% just one week ago. That's a 15.9…
A convergence report published earlier today already covered the core mechanics. The data has moved further in the same direction. This update focuses on what has changed since that note. Why this matters: Short…
Three separate data streams are now pointing the same direction on D.R. Horton. Short interest jumped, options hedging held elevated, and the cost to borrow ticked higher — all within the same week that the stock fell…
Short sellers are stepping back from BCH at pace. Borrow costs halved in a week. Availability has opened up sharply. And options positioning has shifted — all as earnings loom on July 31. Short interest in Banco de…
AMP just reported Q2 results. The stock is up 1.7% on the day. Yet options traders have quietly shifted defensive since the print. The put/call ratio hit 0.42 on July 24. That's 2.1 standard deviations above its 20-day…
Three signals converged on GFI this week. Short interest jumped sharply. The put-call ratio hit a near four-week high. Analysts cut price targets. Yet the lending market remains wide open — a nuance worth…
Three signals converged on GRPN today. Short interest jumped. The borrow pool dried up completely. And options traders are buying calls at the fastest pace in a year. Each one would be notable in isolation. Together,…
Brent crude broke back above $100 per barrel this week. That is the key macro force moving everything. The oil surge is driving a global bond sell-off. Iran said it will halt strikes as long as the US bombing pause…
Options traders placed their heaviest negative bets this week on memory and storage names. Micron Technology and Sandisk Corporation topped the negative-options-flow table for large-cap US stocks. Micron is up 222%…
Analyst activity on Sunday pointed to a clear divide: industrial and equipment names got target price boosts, while cable and telecom names faced cuts. Honeywell led the upgrades. The consensus target rose to $255.94…
Fresh filings this week reveal a sharp divide between confident buyers and cashing-out executives. Handelsbanken cluster buy. Swedish investment giant Lundbergföretagen filed nearly $94M in purchases of SHB A shares…
China grabbed the biggest inflow of the week. ETFs tracking Chinese equities pulled in $8.1B net over the past seven days. That made China the top geography for weekly flows. The contrast with its three-month picture…
SPCX has reported every record since listing in this space. The borrow market has not changed. What has changed is the clock — earnings land August 4, and the analyst community is anything but unified. Ten analysts…
The biggest earnings week of the year is underway. MSFT, AAPL, and AMZN all report over the next four days. Wednesday is the focal point — Microsoft's $2.8 trillion market cap makes it the single largest event on the…
