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German unemployment reached 4.1% in September 2026. That is the highest September reading in a decade, above the previous September peak of 3.8% set in 2016. Italy added to the picture: unemployment there climbed to…
Analysts delivered a string of downgrades Friday, with consumer staples and semiconductors taking the most heat. The Hershey Company suffered the sharpest consensus cut of the session. The average analyst target…
Insiders across several large-cap technology names have been reducing positions over the past month, according to ORTEX data. The pattern is clear: sellers dominate, and the biggest names are in software and…
Short sellers have been busy this week. The data shows several notable moves across sectors, with one semiconductor name standing out above the rest. WOLF remains the most shorted mid-cap on US exchanges. Its short…
China ETFs led all geographies this week. They pulled in a net $17.9B, the strongest single-country reading across the board, with a flow imbalance of 78.7. That is a decisive tilt toward buying. Over three months,…
First Industrial Realty Trust has been hit by five analyst target cuts in eight days, including a JP Morgan downgrade to Neutral from Overweight on Thursday with a new target of $60, down from $74. The stock has fallen…
The earnings calendar this week is dominated by automakers, with real-economy data giving early reads on several names. Kia Corporation reports today, and Austrian car registration data running 9% above year-ago levels…
Options traders turned sharply defensive on EHC this week. Short interest climbed 20.4% in seven days to 3.3% of free float, the highest level since late September. Put activity spiked ahead of the healthcare firm's…
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…
