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Short sellers added most to Critical Metals (CRML): short interest rose 2.6 points in a session to 40.2% of free float, the highest reading in at least a year, and is up 6.6 points on the week, while the stock gained…
Kia Corporation reports today. Austrian car registration data leads its revenue by 45 days and is running 9% above the same quarter last year, three months in, per ORTEX Alt Data. That gives the print a modestly…
Two downgrades stood out on Friday. HSY and KLAC both lost analyst support as fresh data pointed to ongoing pressure in their respective sectors. The Hershey Company saw its consensus rating slip a notch, with the…
UBER President and COO Andrew Gordon MacDonald filed purchases worth roughly $5.3M on 8 September, buying 70,000 shares at around $75 on 4 September. Open-market buys by C-suite executives carry weight. MacDonald's…
Short sellers turned aggressive this week. Wolfspeed now has 88.6% of its free float shorted, up nearly 5 percentage points over the past seven days. The semiconductor maker carries a 9.6-day cost to borrow. Its float…
Equifax short interest stands at 4.57% of free float as of October 29, with 5.6 million shares short. That position has grown 5.6% over the past week, yet it remains less than two-thirds the size it was in early…
Dow Inc. is the lightest-shorted name among its closest peers, yet its borrowing costs just surged 79% in a week. Short interest at Dow sits at 4.16% of free float, below the 5.2% level from a month ago and lower than…
Why this matters: Three separate data streams converged on Public Service Enterprise Group this week. Nuclear output fell to a 4.8 standard deviation low versus its own history. Short interest collapsed 29% in a week.…
Why this matters: Argus Research flipped WEN from Buy to Sell on Thursday, a rare full two-notch downgrade on a stock already carrying 27.3% of its free float short. That call arrived the same day options traders…
Friday is one of the heaviest reporting days of the year. Over 1,900 companies post results globally. In the S&P 500, AbbVie ($514B pharma), ExxonMobil, and Chevron all report today. The two oil majors together account…
A heavy earnings calendar is driving notable options positioning across autos, aerospace, and energy as Friday expirations dominate today's open interest. TSLA carries the most active options strip of any single name…
Today, Friday 30 October, is one of the busiest days of the season. More than 1,900 companies report globally. In the S&P 500 alone, the morning is packed. AbbVie, the $514bn pharma giant, posts at 1pm ET. ExxonMobil…
SO sits at the sharpest end of this week's real-economy signals. NRC reactor status data shows SO's nuclear output fell 10.0 standard deviations below its own history as of 28 October. That is an extreme outlier by any…
Boston Scientific took the heaviest analyst fire on Friday. Jefferies downgraded the stock from Buy to Hold. The firm cut its target from $60 to $46. Canaccord Genuity kept its Buy rating but slashed its own target…
The latest batch of insider filings, reported on 8 September 2026, shows a clear pattern: selling dominates, and the amounts are large. The headline trade belongs to Fosun Pharma Industrial, the promoter-group…
Short sellers added pressure across several mid-cap names this week. Data from ORTEX covering the seven days to 28 October shows the biggest moves among stocks with market caps above $500 million. CBRS (Cerebras…
China led all geographies this week by a wide margin. ETFs targeting Chinese equities pulled in $17.9B net over the past five days, a flow_imbalance score of 78.7 indicating strong buying pressure. That compares with…
Xylem has lost 17% in the past week. The stock closed Thursday at $90.76. Almost every analyst who covers it cut their target in the past 48 hours. And yet a board director spent nearly $1 million buying shares in the…
Four distinct data streams on NU converged this week, and the options market is telling a sharply different story from the short sellers. Short interest in Nu Holdings climbed 22% in a single week, reaching 4.1% of…
Intel crashed 23% overnight after its earnings miss. The move sharpened an already crowded short picture across semiconductors. SanDisk reports tonight after a 492% year-to-date run. Options expiries cluster around…
