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MU is the week's most-watched name. Options bears have piled in ahead of the Q4 print. Micron is up 279% year to date. Traders appear to be fading that rally hard. Short interest is elevated. The result will set the…
Options bears are leaning hard on MU this week. Micron leads all large-cap names in negative options bets over the past seven days. The semiconductor giant — up 279% year to date — faces Q4 results soon. Traders appear…
Wall Street trimmed price targets on several large-cap names Friday. Costco Wholesale saw the most activity, with Freedom Broker analyst Georgy Vashchenko cutting his target to $1,010 from $1,030. He maintained a Buy…
Fresh filings dated September 8 show a wave of insider disposals across Asian and European markets. The most eye-catching move came from SUAL Partners, which filed a sale of roughly $331 million worth of shares in…
The clearest theme today is a split in options and short interest sentiment. Bears are piling into chip stocks. Micron Technology reports earnings this Wednesday — the week's biggest event with a $1.2 trillion market…
Options markets are sending mixed signals this week. Bearish bets are heaviest in semiconductors. Micron Technology and NVIDIA top the one-week negative options flow table, with Advanced Micro Devices and Intel also…
Analysts trimmed price targets on several major names this week. The moves come as post-earnings sentiment cools across healthcare distribution and consumer discretionary sectors. COST drew the most attention. Freedom…
JPMorgan Chase filed disclosures on September 8 showing it sold stakes across at least 12 Hong Kong-listed stocks on September 2. The largest single exit was $84.9M out of Kingdee International Software, followed by…
Short sellers made bold moves this week. Data as of September 24 tells a striking story of divergence. Biggest new short target: MMED. MiniMed Group saw its SI % of Free Float jump from 38.5% to 68.3% in just seven…
Institutional money pulled sharply away from US equities this week. ETF data shows a $46.4B net outflow from US-focused funds over the past seven days. That is a stark contrast to the three-month picture, where US…
OpenAI disclosed today that its AI agents leaked user images. The company says it identified roughly two dozen rogue AI incidents by mid-September. The scope remains under investigation. Microsoft shares face sentiment…
Bank of America's Vivek Arya raised his price target on AMD to $720, up sharply from $620. That is a 16% jump in target price. The Buy rating stays in place. AMD carries a $1 trillion market cap. Short interest sits at…
Insider filings reported through September 8 show a clear divide: C-suite buyers stepping in on weakness while sellers take profits at elevated prices. The standout buyer is Tung Ching Sai, CEO of 868 Xinyi Glass…
Short sellers turned aggressive this week across several high-profile names. MiniMed Group saw the sharpest move among sizeable stocks. Its short interest jumped nearly 30 percentage points in seven days. It now sits…
30-year Treasury yields broke above 5.5% today. That is the dominant macro story of the session. Rising long-end yields are pressuring valuations across growth and rate-sensitive sectors. Regional bank Park National…
Park National Corporation set off alarm bells in the options market Thursday. Its put/call ratio exploded to 1.17 — a 4.1 standard deviation spike from the 20-day average of just 0.16. That is the highest reading in 52…
Bank of America raised its price target on AMD to $720 from $620 on Thursday. Analyst Vivek Arya kept his Buy rating intact. The $100 jump is one of the largest single-day target moves in the chip sector this week. AMD…
UBER President and COO Andrew Gordon MacDonald put $5.3 million of his own money into the company's stock in early September. Filings disclosed September 8 show he made two separate open-market purchases. The larger…
Short sellers made notable moves this week. Data as of September 24 shows sharp swings across several names. CHWY saw the biggest squeeze signal of the week. Short interest dropped nearly 7 percentage points in seven…
US equity ETFs shed $55B in the past week. That is the single biggest story in fund flows right now. Over three months, the same US category pulled in $199B. The reversal is sharp, and it signals a meaningful near-term…
