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Coeur Mining just lived through one of its most turbulent short-selling episodes in recent memory. Short interest spiked to nearly 18% of free float on June 26 — more than double the prior week — then collapsed back…
US markets head into the long weekend with stress visible across autos, AI, and consumer sectors. Ford delivered the starkest number of the day. Q2 EV sales fell 41%. Legacy US automakers are struggling with weak…
Options markets are flashing bearish signals in autos and AI infrastructure this holiday week. Ford reported a 41% plunge in Q2 EV sales Thursday. The news hit a market already on edge. Ford's SI % FF sits at just…
The US market heads into a shortened July 4th holiday week with a handful of closely-watched earnings releases on tap. PEP kicks things off on Wednesday, July 8. PepsiCo reports Q2 2026 results as investors watch for…
Analysts turned bearish on two consumer stalwarts this week. International Flavors & Fragrances and Colgate-Palmolive both received downgrades, adding pressure to an already cautious consumer sector outlook. IFF's…
Applied Materials insiders have been selling heavily. CEO Gary Dickerson filed sales totaling over $85M in the past month. The filings appeared this week and last, covering trades between June 15 and June 30. Dickerson…
Short sellers made bold moves this week. HTZ tops the momentum leaderboard. Its SI % FF jumped 14 percentage points in seven days to 62.3%. Availability sits at zero. Bears have locked in their bets and there's nothing…
Three converging signals are flashing on EOSE. Availability has collapsed, borrowing costs have nearly doubled in a month, and options traders just pushed the put-call ratio to a record high. Availability on EOSE has…
US markets close early today for the July 4th weekend. Bears are the dominant story heading in. WOLF (Wolfspeed) leads the bearish charge. Short interest sits at 114.9% of free float — the highest reading among…
The short US trading week kicks off with a handful of notable results. Today (Friday, July 3) is a half-day session ahead of the Independence Day holiday on Saturday. The biggest name this week is PEP. PepsiCo reports…
Analysts delivered sharp target price moves this week. A standout came from TD Cowen on DAL. Tom Fitzgerald raised his price target to $106, up from $92. That is a 15% jump. He maintained a Buy rating. The call comes…
A wave of large insider filings landed this week. Sellers dominated the headlines, but cable mogul John Malone was swimming against the tide. Malone loads up on Liberty Latin America. Filings show Malone spent over…
Short sellers turned aggressive heading into the July 4th weekend. Two names dominate: HTZ and WOLF. Hertz saw its SI % FF jump to 62.3%, up from 47.97% just seven days ago — a 14-point surge. The rental car company is…
PKX heads into its July 6 earnings release with a partial recovery underway — but options positioning reveals investors remain more defensive than they were just weeks ago. The stock closed at $52.12 on July 2, up 4.2%…
Markets head into the July 4th holiday with bearish positioning tightening on distressed names. Executives at semiconductor and energy firms rushed to lock in gains. Short sellers made their biggest moves in names with…
Short sellers are piling in. Two names stand out heading into the US holiday week. WOLF — Wolfspeed — now has short interest at 114.9% of its free float. That figure rose 25.8 percentage points in just 14 days.…
The first full week of July brings a light but notable earnings calendar. Two consumer names dominate the US schedule. Both report Wednesday, July 8. PEP kicks off Q2 2026 earnings season in earnest. The beverage and…
Analysts trimmed price targets on several major US oil producers Thursday, signalling growing caution on the energy sector. OXY, Diamondback Energy, EOG Resources, Devon Energy, and ConocoPhillips all saw target price…
Filings this week show heavy insider selling across US markets. Applied Materials CEO Gary Dickerson led the pack. He filed sales totalling $55.6M on July 1. The trades occurred June 29–30 at prices around $700–$735…
Short sellers intensified bets on a cluster of high-profile names this week. Data as of July 1 shows some of the sharpest seven-day moves in months. HTZ topped the movers list. Short interest jumped 11 percentage…
