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Options activity is heating up ahead of a packed earnings week. Big banks and healthcare names dominate the agenda, drawing heavy positioning across derivatives markets. UNH is one of the most-watched names this week.…
Q2 earnings season kicks into gear this week. Banks, insurers, and healthcare giants all report between Tuesday and Thursday. Bank of America opens Tuesday's session with Q2 results before the bell. Bank of New York…
AMAT got the biggest target price swing of the day. TD Cowen's Krish Sankar raised his target to $700 from $525 — a 33% jump. The Buy rating held firm. Applied Materials carries a $453 billion market cap. The move…
Two US tech giants saw a wave of insider selling this month. The filings make for notable reading. At DELL, Silver Lake Group has been offloading shares relentlessly. The investment firm, a 10% owner with a board seat,…
Short sellers ramped up positions in several notable names this week. Marqeta saw the biggest jump. Its SI % of Free Float leapt from 3.95% to 14.47% in just seven days — a 10.5 percentage point spike. CoreWeave, the…
US weekly jobless claims came in at 215,000, dipping modestly from the prior week. The labour market remains healthy. That backdrop sets the stage for next week's Q2 earnings rush, with Bank of America, Johnson &…
Options markets are buzzing around a handful of names today. Each carries a distinct catalyst driving directional bets. Chips in the spotlight. MU headlines the semiconductor conversation. Micron is up 700% and is…
A busy week of Q2 earnings kicks off today, with major US financials and healthcare giants all due to report before Friday. Bank of America opens the week on Monday, July 14, reporting Q2 results before the US market…
Analysts issued a pair of notable downgrades Wednesday. Both TSCO and PNR saw their consensus ratings cut, standing apart from a session dominated by target price increases. Tractor Supply downgraded. The $16B farm and…
Insider filings this week reveal a wave of selling across US equities, with a standout cluster at ATLC and persistent liquidation at TTAN. Atlanticus in the spotlight. Five insiders at Atlanticus Holdings filed sales…
Alight is the week's most striking short squeeze candidate. ALIT's short interest shot to 134% of free float — up from just 7% seven days ago. That is a massive leap. Cost to borrow stays low at 0.56%, so bears are not…
A strange divergence is playing out in VIS — the Vanguard Industrials ETF — where the cost to borrow has nearly doubled in a week even as short sellers quietly exit. Cost to borrow hit 6.33% on July 8. That's up 129%…
Cost to borrow UMC shares has hit a record high. It jumped from 1.76% to 25.1% in seven days — a 1,329% rise. That is the sharpest move in the stock's history on ORTEX data. The spike is happening even as short sellers…
The SMH lending market has reversed course with unusual speed. Availability has collapsed from 93% last week to just 39% today — a drop of more than half in five sessions. That shift coincides with a 66% surge in cost…
NTRA has drawn a wave of analyst upgrades over the past two weeks. Now the options market is pushing back. The put/call ratio hit 0.72 on July 8. That's 2.3 standard deviations above its 20-day mean of 0.66. It's the…
PEP kicked off Q2 2026 earnings season today before the bell. Markets are watching closely. The S&P 500's opening direction hinges partly on the PepsiCo print. DAL reports tomorrow. BAC and JNJ follow next week. The…
Options and short-selling signals are flashing red on several names today. Short interest and deal risk are driving unusual hedging activity across the market. CHWY is the standout bear trade. Short interest sits at…
Analysts delivered a split verdict across sectors on Wednesday, with clean energy gaining ground while tech and entertainment faced target cuts. First Solar was the standout winner. Analysts raised its consensus target…
Two sharp insider patterns emerged from recent US filings: a coordinated buying blitz at a small-cap avocado distributor and a broad executive sell-off at an energy construction firm. AVO insiders went on an aggressive…
Short sellers turned up the heat this week on two of the market's most talked-about names. CHWY short interest hit 75.4% of free float — up 5.6 percentage points in seven days. CRWV also drew fresh bearish attention,…
