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Oil markets are flashing red. The Strait of Hormuz has shut again, and stockpiles built up earlier in the Iran conflict are running low. Traders warn the market is close to running on empty. UK 10-year gilt yields…
Today is one of the busiest days of the quarter. NFLX reports Q2 2026 results after the close. Subscriber growth and ad-tier revenue are the key numbers to watch. ISRG holds its Q2 earnings call today as well. The…
Analysts raised target prices on a clutch of US financials today. Morgan Stanley got a TP bump to $221 from $218. M&T Bank moved to $251 from $246. PNC Financial climbed to $273 from $267. All three follow strong Q2…
Corporate insiders across US markets have been filing a wave of sell transactions this month. The pattern points to executives taking profits after strong recent gains. AMAT CEO Gary Dickerson led the list. He filed…
Q2 reporting kicks off in earnest tonight. NFLX reports after the close, with investors focused on subscriber growth and ad-tier momentum. ISRG also reports today. Options positioning into both names is call-skewed,…
Q2 earnings season is heating up. Options traders are positioning fast ahead of major results this week. NFLX reports on July 16. Short interest sits at just 2.4% of free float. That low bearish conviction in the stock…
NFLX and ISRG kick off the week today, Thursday July 16. Netflix reports Q2 results after the close. Investors are watching subscriber growth and ad-tier momentum. Intuitive Surgical holds its earnings call the same…
Analysts raised targets across financials and healthcare on Tuesday, with Goldman Sachs seeing the sharpest jump. The average consensus target for GS rose to $1,085 from $1,037. That is a near-$50 increase. Goldman…
A wave of significant insider selling has hit US markets this month, with filings landing as recently as July 14 and 15. The biggest story sits at DELL. Silver Lake Group — a 10% board-level owner — filed sales…
Short sellers made notable moves this week across a range of US stocks. Data as of July 14 shows some sharp increases in bearish positioning. Space Exploration Technologies saw the biggest mid-to-large cap jump. Its SI…
AMDL — the GraniteShares 2x Long AMD Daily ETF — gained 11% on the week and sits at $71.49, yet the lending market remains completely locked out, and short interest keeps climbing. The tension in the borrow market has…
SoundHound AI heads into August earnings with one of the most contradictory setups in the AI software space — options traders are positioned for upside while one of the most crowded short books in the market keeps…
Hertz Global Holdings has now shed 64% in a month, shorts have added another leg, and the lending market remains fully locked — yet the options market continues to lean toward calls rather than puts. The short interest…
EverCommerce enters the week before its August 6 earnings with a borrow market still effectively shut, insiders selling into every uptick, and a short score that has now pushed to its highest recorded reading — a…
SoFi Technologies has clawed back to $18.55 this week — up 4.5% — with short sellers quietly trimming exposure and Goldman Sachs lifting its target just days ago, setting up an interesting pre-earnings dynamic ahead of…
Zscaler has now moved 17% higher in a month and short sellers have mostly stepped aside — but options traders are quietly loading up on downside protection as the September earnings date comes into view. The options…
DNP heads into the week with a notable gap between where shares trade and where analysts think they should — and with August earnings less than six weeks away, that gap is worth watching. The price-versus-target…
XTB has spent July doing what bears least want to see — rallying hard while the borrow market moves entirely the wrong way for short sellers. The stock closed at PLN 130.70 on July 14, up nearly 8% on the week and…
APTV heads into its August 4 earnings date with short interest climbing sharply and the stock down 15% over the past month — a combination that sets up an unusually charged pre-print setup. Short interest has jumped…
JSW — Jastrzębska Spółka Węglowa — added 1.1% on Tuesday to close at PLN 26.70, yet the lending market just delivered its most extreme reading in the entire tracked history of this name, making the price bounce feel…
