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American Financial Group reports Q3 2026 results on November 3, trading at $153.87, roughly in line with the Street's mean price target of $154.50. Among its closest P&C insurance peers, AFG is neither the most crowded…
Air Products and Chemicals has gained 3% over the past week, more than three times the median advance of its closest peers, while short sellers have been trimming rather than adding exposure. Among its most correlated…
Short sellers added pressure across tech and consumer names this week. Data from ORTEX as of 29 October shows some sharp moves worth watching. Wolfspeed leads the most-shorted list on a free-float basis. Short interest…
Markets enter Halloween with a clear divide in options sentiment. Semiconductor names took the heaviest bearish flow over the past seven days. MU, META, AMD, and NVDA all saw put flow dominate, with positive options…
Options flow on Halloween flashed a clear split: semiconductor names absorbed the week's heaviest bearish bets while energy and financials drew near-pure call demand. MU led bearish notional flow over the past seven…
AAPL kicks off a packed week today, reporting after the close. The iPhone maker carries a $5.1 trillion market cap into the print. CHKP reports this morning before the open. AMGN follows after Monday's close. Tuesday…
US vehicle registration data tracked by ORTEX tells a nuanced story about the electric transition. The stock of registered non-plug hybrid vehicles fell to 14,476 in August 2026, according to state fuel-mix filings.…
Truist Securities cut its price target on INTC from $108 to $72 on Friday, the biggest target swing in the latest round of analyst updates. Truist kept its Hold rating. The 33% reduction stands out at a time when short…
NVIDIA director Mark Stevens filed to show he sold $411 million worth of shares between 31 August and 2 September. The seven-trade cluster, reported to regulators between 1 and 2 September, is the biggest disclosed…
Short sellers stepped up pressure on several mid-cap names this week, with LQDA (Liquidia Corporation) seeing the biggest notable move among larger stocks. Its SI % of FF jumped 8 percentage points in seven days to…
China attracted the most net new money in the past week, pulling in $11.1B of ETF inflows. Japan was close behind at $6.5B. The U.S. added $10.0B in net terms, but its flow imbalance score of 56.6 signals a market…
PNR closed at $65.84 on October 29, up 24% over the past month, yet the cost to borrow its shares has tripled in a week. Three distinct signals are now moving together on a stock that was near a multi-year low less…
AAPL reports after the close tonight, the single biggest earnings print of the week by market cap at $5.1 trillion. Chip stocks are live ahead of the number. NVDA carries active options expiries every few days through…
TD Cowen's Robert Moskow downgraded HSY to Hold from Buy on October 30, cutting his price target to $173 from $198. The reason: market share losses in core chocolate to Mars. Five other firms cut their targets the same…
Inovio Pharmaceuticals grabbed the options market's attention Friday. The FDA approved its plasmid DNA-based immunotherapy for recurrent respiratory papillomatosis. Calls running to the January 2027 expiry saw interest…
Today marks the start of one of the busiest reporting weeks of the season. Nearly 2,000 companies are scheduled to report globally between now and Thursday. Today and tomorrow bring the heaviest European flow. SAF…
Wells Fargo dominated analyst activity on Friday, with a sweeping set of target price changes across pharma and healthcare. The biggest upward call went to LLY. Wells Fargo raised its target on Eli Lilly from $1,330 to…
UBER President and COO Andrew Gordon MacDonald filed two open-market purchases on September 8, totalling roughly $5.3M in Uber shares. He bought 54,325 shares on September 4 at an average price near $75.60, spending…
Short sellers sharpened their positions on several well-known names this week. Data from ORTEX as of 29 October shows the clearest movers and some notable extremes across the market. WOLF sits at 88.6% SI of free…
Short sellers have piled into GLD at a pace rarely seen for the world's largest gold ETF. Short interest has risen 94% over the past week to 18.84 million shares, and the lending pool is now almost fully drained. On 22…
