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Short sellers stepped up pressure on several mid-cap names this week, with LQDA (Liquidia Corporation) seeing the biggest notable move among larger stocks. Its SI % of FF jumped 8 percentage points in seven days to…
China attracted the most net new money in the past week, pulling in $11.1B of ETF inflows. Japan was close behind at $6.5B. The U.S. added $10.0B in net terms, but its flow imbalance score of 56.6 signals a market…
PNR closed at $65.84 on October 29, up 24% over the past month, yet the cost to borrow its shares has tripled in a week. Three distinct signals are now moving together on a stock that was near a multi-year low less…
AAPL reports after the close tonight, the single biggest earnings print of the week by market cap at $5.1 trillion. Chip stocks are live ahead of the number. NVDA carries active options expiries every few days through…
TD Cowen's Robert Moskow downgraded HSY to Hold from Buy on October 30, cutting his price target to $173 from $198. The reason: market share losses in core chocolate to Mars. Five other firms cut their targets the same…
Inovio Pharmaceuticals grabbed the options market's attention Friday. The FDA approved its plasmid DNA-based immunotherapy for recurrent respiratory papillomatosis. Calls running to the January 2027 expiry saw interest…
Today marks the start of one of the busiest reporting weeks of the season. Nearly 2,000 companies are scheduled to report globally between now and Thursday. Today and tomorrow bring the heaviest European flow. SAF…
Wells Fargo dominated analyst activity on Friday, with a sweeping set of target price changes across pharma and healthcare. The biggest upward call went to LLY. Wells Fargo raised its target on Eli Lilly from $1,330 to…
UBER President and COO Andrew Gordon MacDonald filed two open-market purchases on September 8, totalling roughly $5.3M in Uber shares. He bought 54,325 shares on September 4 at an average price near $75.60, spending…
Short sellers sharpened their positions on several well-known names this week. Data from ORTEX as of 29 October shows the clearest movers and some notable extremes across the market. WOLF sits at 88.6% SI of free…
Short sellers have piled into GLD at a pace rarely seen for the world's largest gold ETF. Short interest has risen 94% over the past week to 18.84 million shares, and the lending pool is now almost fully drained. On 22…
GE Vernova makes gas turbines, grid equipment, and wind technology. Its stock is up 7.3% over the past week, roughly in line with peers, and sits at $887.85 after a muted post-earnings session on October 29. Three…
Short sellers have added roughly 2.4 million shares to their VIK position since mid-October. Shares short now stand at 10.35 million, equal to 3.3% of free float, up 27% over the past week and 26% over the past…
FRW enters the final stretch of October with an unusual split: the stock is up 3.5% on the week while borrowing costs have risen sharply and insiders have been consistent sellers for two months. The most striking data…
MRK heads into its November 12 results with the stock up 8.6% over the past month and short positioning so thin it barely registers as a factor. The lending market tells the same story as the share price: there is no…
Goldman Sachs just cut Bicara Therapeutics to Sell and slashed its target 60% to $8. The stock has already lost 45% in a week. Yet options traders are betting the other way with unusual conviction. Why this matters: A…
Fortinet dropped 20% in the week to October 29, closing at $139.10, after its Q3 earnings print triggered the sharpest target-price cuts the stock has seen in recent memory. The stock that had run 133% in 2026 gave…
Why this matters: GOOGL dropped 12.6% on October 29 following Q4 earnings, its sharpest single-day move in recent memory. Analysts responded with a wave of target cuts, retail attention surged to 4.1 standard…
Eli Lilly and Company delivered its Q3 results on October 29, closing the day at $1,373.70, a 6.6% single-session gain that extended the stock's one-month rise to 16%. Within hours of the print, four analyst firms…
AAPL sits at one end of its peer group on borrow cost: at 0.34%, its cost to borrow has risen 17.5% over the past month, a move that stands out for a stock with essentially unconstrained borrow availability. Public…
