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A packed earnings calendar is driving unusual options activity this week. Bears and bulls are clashing hardest in semiconductors, megacap tech, and a handful of beaten-down names. Micron Technology sits at the top of…
The next seven days bring a blockbuster parade of results. Over 1,500 companies report globally between July 25 and July 31. Today and Monday: CDNS kicks things off Monday after the close. Cadence Design Systems…
Analysts shifted targets higher across energy, industrials, and pharma on Friday, with a cluster of upward revisions standing out from the latest changes. Thermo Fisher Scientific drew the most eye-catching move. The…
A wave of significant insider filings hit markets this week. Sellers dominate the headlines, but one European bank is drawing fresh capital from its own boardroom. VC Firm Dumps $118M in ServiceTitan Bessemer Venture…
Short sellers turned aggressive this week. Hertz Global Holdings and Chewy stand out as the biggest movers among larger-cap names. HTZ now sits at 75% SI % of FF — up nearly 5 percentage points in just seven days.…
The clearest story this week: US equity ETFs are bleeding cash while Asia attracts the most concentrated buying pressure in months. US-focused funds posted a net outflow of $9.4B over the past week. That is the single…
The biggest story this week is earnings. MSFT, AAPL, AMZN, and META all report this week. Options markets are pricing heavy negativity across mega-cap tech. TSLA sits at an RSI of just 29 — deep in oversold territory —…
Analysts fired off a string of upgrades on Thursday, with data center REITs and healthcare distributors drawing the most attention. Digital Realty Trust scored the session's sharpest upgrade. TD Cowen's Michael Elias…
Carlos Slim — one of the world's richest men — has been aggressively selling PBF Energy shares. Filings this week show he sold over $54M worth of stock across multiple transactions. The trades occurred between July 8…
C.H. Robinson Worldwide heads into its July 29 Q2 print with a notably cleaner short book than it carried two weeks ago — and options traders who are unusually unconcerned about downside risk. The sharpest move in the…
Hims & Hers Health enters its August 3 earnings report in a genuinely unusual place: short sellers have been cutting positions for weeks, yet options traders just turned more defensive than they've been in months. The…
SoundHound AI enters the final stretch before its August 5 earnings report with every structural tension from the prior three weeks still firmly in place — a short book that refuses to move, a borrow market that…
JSW — Jastrzębska Spółka Węglowa — drifted 0.3% lower to PLN 25.91 on Thursday, and the week's real tension is a cost-to-borrow market that has swung violently while the ORTEX short score quietly reached another record…
ServiceNow is surging Friday after strong earnings. It beat expectations and raised guidance. That sent the stock sharply higher and lifted sentiment across enterprise software. Intel also delivered better-than-feared…
Analyst target price moves today split sharply. DOW drew the most attention — consensus targets fell to $36.25 from $36.67. The chemicals giant carries a $22bn market cap. Short interest sits at 4.8% of free float,…
China ETFs pulled in $12.4B net over the past week. That is the single largest geographic flow of any region. The surge is a sharp reversal from the 3-month picture, where China sat $5.6B in the red. Sentiment has…
China ETFs pulled in $12.4B net in the past week. That made China the top geography by net flow — beating the U.S. at $7.2B. The contrast with the three-month picture is striking. Over 3m, China ran a net outflow of…
GOOGL suffered a $294 billion single-day market cap wipeout. That is one of the largest one-day destruction events in market history. The scale puts the loss at nearly the entire value of Palantir. The rout dragged…
Earnings-week volatility is front and centre in the options market today. MSFT, AMZN, AAPL, and META all report this week. Negative options bets are piling into mega-cap tech names across the board. MSFT carries a…
This week brings one of the busiest earnings stretches of 2026. Over 1,300 companies report globally. The US slate alone carries several market-moving names. Tuesday and Wednesday open proceedings. SPGI posts results…
