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WIT heads into its July 15 Q1 FY2027 earnings with the lending market considerably looser than it was just weeks ago — a meaningful shift from the extreme borrow squeeze that defined the setup in our last preview. The…
MMM approaches its July 17 Q2 print with short sellers visibly pulling back — a notable shift in positioning heading into a report that will test whether the conglomerate's margin recovery story has legs. The clearest…
IBN heads into its July 17 earnings release with an unusual split: short interest building steadily, yet options traders leaning more bullish than they have in weeks. The most striking setup is in the lending market —…
Short sellers moved aggressively into SPCX last week. Space Exploration Technologies Corp saw its SI % of free float jump from 3.65% to 25.22% in a single session on July 10. That is a massive one-day swing for a $1.1…
HDB reports its Q1 FY2027 results on July 17 with options traders leaning more bullish than they have in months — a notable shift for India's largest private lender heading into a print where margin pressure remains…
Fifth Third Bancorp heads into its July 17 Q2 print with a modest but meaningful divergence from its peer group: short interest has continued to build even as regional bank peers closed last week in the green. The…
Truist Financial reports Q2 results on July 17 with a striking contradiction in its positioning: options traders are becoming more comfortable with the stock at the same moment that much of the analyst community is…
US-Iran tensions are the macro story of the day. Oil prices jumped sharply as tit-for-tat strikes escalated. Traders fear further disruption to crude flows through the Strait of Hormuz. The USO oil fund carries 92.8%…
Options traders are loading up ahead of a crunch week. Geopolitics and a packed earnings calendar are the twin drivers. US-Iran tensions pushed crude sharply higher on Monday. The USO oil fund carries a short interest…
Today kicks off earnings season in earnest. Bank of America reports Q2 2026 results this morning. The $423bn bank is one of the first major lenders to give investors a read on consumer credit and net interest…
Wall Street reshuffled healthcare and retail ratings on Monday, with managed care names winning upgrades while hospital operators faced cuts. HCA Healthcare saw its consensus target price trimmed to $490. That's a drop…
A wave of high-value insider selling hit markets this week, with C-suite executives and major shareholders filing significant disposals across multiple sectors. Applied Materials CEO leads US sales. Gary Dickerson,…
Short sellers are on the move. SPCX — Space Exploration Technologies — saw the biggest jump this week. SI % of free float leapt from 3.7% to 25.2% in just seven days. That's a 21.6 percentage point surge. Cisco also…
US-Iran hostilities dominated headlines on Sunday. Oil prices jumped as tit-for-tat strikes between Washington and Tehran raised fears over Strait of Hormuz supply routes. Stocks and bonds fell together in a classic…
Options traders have swung firmly bullish on RBRK. The put-call ratio hit 0.255 earlier this week — a 52-week low and nearly three standard deviations below its 20-day mean of 0.484. That shift is the clearest signal…
The tension noted in our July 8 article has snapped — decisively in the bulls' favour. Short sellers who spent weeks piling into DHT Holdings have reversed course sharply, shedding 23% of their position in a single…
Tomorrow, Monday July 14, is the opening shot of a major earnings season. BAC kicks things off with Q2 2026 results before the bell. AEHR also reports after market close the same day. PGR posts its June monthly…
Analysts lifted targets across industrials and tech storage on Sunday, with a broad sweep of upward revisions dominating the latest activity. Western Digital received one of the sharpest target boosts. The consensus…
Short sellers made sharp moves this week. Data to July 10 shows some striking 7-day swings worth watching. SPCX — Space Exploration Technologies — saw the biggest jump. Short interest leapt from 3.7% to 25.2% of free…
A wave of insider selling swept across global markets this week, with filings reported on July 10 pointing to heavy exits at several major companies. DELL saw the biggest US dump. Silver Lake Group, a board-level 10%…
