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Today brings results from ALB (Albemarle) and ALL (Allstate), both releasing Q3 figures after the close. Cirrus Logic and Cognex also report Wednesday afternoon. Thursday's calendar is busier. Sony Group releases Q2…
European new diesel car registrations fell to 1,383 vehicles in October, the lowest reading since the series began in 2016, according to ORTEX national registration data. The number is not a rounding artefact from a…
Amgen dominated Wednesday's analyst activity. Three separate firms raised their price targets on the biotech giant in the same session. RBC Capital moved its target to $470 from $430. Wells Fargo went to $460 from…
An NVDA board member sold more than $410 million of shares across seven tranches in just three days, the most significant cluster of insider selling to surface in ORTEX's data in recent months. Mark Stevens, an…
Short sellers intensified bets in several US names this week. The most notable mover among mid-caps is PROG Holdings. Its SI % of FF jumped from 8.5% to 12.1% in seven days, a gain of 3.5 percentage points. Hertz…
Equity ETFs dominated the week. A net $40B flowed into equity funds in the past seven days. That dwarfs every other asset class. Fixed income added $1.7B. Commodities pulled in $778M. Currency funds shed $483M, the…
Booking Holdings is the day's most prominent earnings casualty. Analysts cut forecasts after Q3 results missed expectations, with multiple brokers slashing targets. Travel demand held up, but margin concerns drove the…
Options sentiment shifted bullishly on Wednesday, with the week's top positive scores clustering in crypto, refining and cruise stocks. The signals follow a string of corporate catalysts that moved markets. RIOT sits…
Today sees two notable US prints after the bell. ALB (Albemarle Corporation) reports Q3 2026 results at 4pm ET. The lithium giant has faced a tough year of falling prices. ALL (Allstate Corporation) also reports at…
Analysts lifted price targets across several names on Wednesday, with industrial technology and biotech leading the upgrades while semiconductors faced mild headwinds. ZBRA saw the most decisive move. The consensus…
Kenneth Dart filed last August that he bought more than $715 million of EVO shares in late July. The main shareholder picked up over 10 million shares across two tranches. That is the largest single insider purchase in…
Short sellers have been busy this week. ORTEX data to 2 November shows several notable position builds across mid-cap US names, with a handful of squeeze candidates also worth watching. Biggest mover: ChronoScale…
GOOGL Alphabet is extending voluntary buyout offers to employees across several countries, according to a Reuters exclusive published this morning. The move adds to cost-cutting pressure already flagged in earlier…
Options flow this week shows a clear divide. Semiconductor names are drawing heavy bearish bets. Bullish positioning is concentrated elsewhere. AMD tops the negative-bets leaderboard among large-caps over the past…
Wednesday brings two confirmed reports. Albemarle posts Q3 results after the close, with lithium markets still under pressure. Cencora holds its Q4 call in the morning. Insurer Allstate also reports after the bell…
New York State issued just 20,670 new passenger registrations in October, the smallest October total on record going back to 2024. That compares with 25,482 in October 2025, a year-on-year drop of about 19%. The New…
Two significant downgrades stand out in Wednesday's analyst activity. MAR Marriott International was cut to Sell at the consensus level, with the average target price slipping to $403.62 from $393.35. The hotel giant…
UBER President and COO Andrew Gordon MacDonald filed on 8 September showing two open-market purchases made on 4 September. Combined, the two trades total around $5.3 million at prices near $75.65 and $76.44 per share.…
Short interest data through 2 November shows bears adding to positions across several mid-cap names, with one semiconductor stock sitting at extreme levels and a Macau gaming play drawing fresh attention. WOLF remains…
China and Japan ETFs dominated the week's money flows. Combined, they pulled in roughly $18.6B in net inflows over the past seven days. That dwarfs every other regional story in the data. China attracted $13.8B in net…
