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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…
SNOW reported fiscal Q3 results on October 29 that captured the tension defining the stock right now: 37% revenue growth and a narrowing loss, but Q4 guidance that landed below what the Street wanted, sending shares…
FRBT reported third-quarter earnings Thursday, and the market's response was unambiguous: the stock closed up 6.9% on the day to $18.43, capping a 7.3% weekly gain and extending a steady one-month climb of 7.8%. The…
MAIRE heads into the final days of October with one of the cleanest short-side profiles in Italian mid-cap industrials, yet the stock's 9.4% weekly surge raises the question of what is actually driving the move. The…
ROHC.Y enters its November 5 earnings release down 21% over the past month, a bruising decline that dwarfs a modest 2.5% recovery this week and frames the quarter-end print as the most consequential near-term event for…
Ono Pharmaceutical suffered its sharpest single-day fall in recent memory on Thursday, closing at JPY 2,224.5 after a 10% decline that brought its one-week loss to nearly 12%. The timing is pointed: the company…
EMAT has bounced 24% in a week while short sellers add positions and the borrow market tightens sharply, a rare tension that makes the coming earnings report the sharpest test of the year. The lending setup is where…
Coherent Corp. has staged a sharp reversal: up 14% on the week to $237.22, recovering roughly half the ground lost in last week's 20% collapse, with fiscal Q1 results due in five days. The bounce comes with an…
ServiceNow fell 29% on October 28 after an earnings miss. Short interest now sits at 13.3% of free float, down 12.3% over the week, and retail attention has spiked to 4.2 standard deviations above its own 90-day…
DoorDash is buying Instacart for $17 billion. It is the biggest consumer tech deal of the year. The combination links on-demand food delivery with grocery logistics. Salesforce also made a move today, acquiring Rune…
Options markets are signalling caution across several key names today as a heavy earnings slate, Fed commentary, and macro headwinds from Europe converge. RDDT carries the sharpest bearish print in today's flow.…
The final days of October bring a dense slate of results. Auto earnings dominate the back half of the week. Ferrari reports Tuesday 3 November. Honda Motor follows on Thursday the 6th. Austrian car registration data,…
German unemployment reached 4.1% in September 2026. That is the highest September reading in a decade, above the previous September peak of 3.8% set in 2016. Italy added to the picture: unemployment there climbed to…
Analysts delivered a string of downgrades Friday, with consumer staples and semiconductors taking the most heat. The Hershey Company suffered the sharpest consensus cut of the session. The average analyst target…
Insiders across several large-cap technology names have been reducing positions over the past month, according to ORTEX data. The pattern is clear: sellers dominate, and the biggest names are in software and…
Short sellers have been busy this week. The data shows several notable moves across sectors, with one semiconductor name standing out above the rest. WOLF remains the most shorted mid-cap on US exchanges. Its short…
China ETFs led all geographies this week. They pulled in a net $17.9B, the strongest single-country reading across the board, with a flow imbalance of 78.7. That is a decisive tilt toward buying. Over three months,…
First Industrial Realty Trust has been hit by five analyst target cuts in eight days, including a JP Morgan downgrade to Neutral from Overweight on Thursday with a new target of $60, down from $74. The stock has fallen…
The earnings calendar this week is dominated by automakers, with real-economy data giving early reads on several names. Kia Corporation reports today, and Austrian car registration data running 9% above year-ago levels…
Options traders turned sharply defensive on EHC this week. Short interest climbed 20.4% in seven days to 3.3% of free float, the highest level since late September. Put activity spiked ahead of the healthcare firm's…
