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The dominant story today is US-Iran military escalation. The two countries have exchanged strikes, sending oil prices sharply higher on fears of disruption to Strait of Hormuz shipping. Futures for the Dow, Nasdaq, and…
Q2 reporting season hits full stride this week. Banks lead the charge on Monday. BAC and WFC both report tomorrow, Tuesday July 14. C also drops Q2 numbers the same morning. FAST reports Tuesday too, offering an early…
Analysts pushed target prices higher across several sectors Sunday, with EDA software and contract research labs drawing the most attention. Cadence Design Systems received an upgraded consensus target of $391.18, up…
Silver Lake has been filing sales in DELL at pace. The private equity firm, a 10% owner and board member, filed $237 million in sales over the past month. Most filings landed this week, covering trades on July 6 and…
Short sellers made a dramatic move into SPCX last week. Short Interest % of Free Float jumped from 3.65% to 25.22% — a gain of over 21 percentage points in just seven days. SpaceX's $1.1 trillion market cap makes this…
Two downgrades in two weeks have shifted the analyst mood on ABCB — and the lending data is moving in the same direction, just weeks before July 23 earnings. Piper Sandler downgraded Ameris Bancorp to Neutral from…
The lending pool for INFY has effectively run dry. Availability has crashed to just 0.11% — meaning fewer than one share remains available to borrow for every thousand already out on loan. That's the tightest reading…
Three signals aligned on GM in the past week. Short interest, cost to borrow, and options positioning are all moving in the same direction — and earnings are eight days away. Short interest jumped 23.4% in a single…
Why this matters: VGT has recovered sharply since last week's selloff, gaining 3% over seven days to $118.08. Yet short interest has kept climbing. That divergence — price up, shorts adding — is the signal worth…
The "pause" documented earlier this week has become a genuine unwind. Short interest in GLD dropped 30% in a single session on July 10, falling to 11.3 million shares — the steepest single-day cover on record. That…
Two macro forces are shaping markets this morning. Oil jumped sharply after the US and Iran escalated tit-for-tat strikes, raising fears over Strait of Hormuz oil flows. Separately, Asian memory chipmakers tumbled…
The earnings season shifts into high gear this week. Major US financials report first, followed by a blockbuster tech result on Thursday. BAC kicks things off tomorrow, Monday July 14. Bank of America reports Q2 2026…
Analyst activity on Sunday pointed to a notable split in sentiment. Medtech names drew the most scrutiny. ISRG saw its consensus target price trimmed to $558 from $562. The $144B robotic surgery giant remains…
Insiders at several major US-listed companies filed significant sell transactions in recent weeks, with BABA topping the list. Alibaba President J. Michael Evans filed on July 1 disclosing a $68.4M sale of 720,000…
Bears are on the move. Three high-profile names saw short interest jump sharply in the week to July 9. CoreWeave led the charge among notable names. Short interest hit 33.1% of free float. That's up 4.8 percentage…
The week's biggest event is Thursday's NFLX Q2 print. The stock sits at multi-month lows heading into the report. Options skew is flashing caution. Short interest holds at 2.4% of free float — bears are not backing…
NFLX enters Thursday's earnings with options skew flashing caution. The stock sits at multi-month lows. Short interest stands at 2.4% of free float — steady but bears are not retreating. Options markets are doing the…
Capital One Financial picked up a fresh upgrade this week. Analysts moved the consumer lender to Buy from Hold. The target price sits at $256. The stock carries low short interest of just 1.8% of free float. That…
Netflix reports Q2 results on July 16 having erased every dollar of its pre-earnings recovery, with the debate no longer about positioning but about whether the fundamentals can close a 54% gap between the stock and…
BNT reports Thursday after the close with short sellers having spent the past six weeks unwinding positions — a backdrop that removes one obvious source of downside pressure heading into the number. The retreat in…
