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Wells Fargo upgraded eBay to Equal-Weight this morning, raising its price target 16.5% to $106 from $91. The move is a direct reversal: analyst Ken Gawrelski had trimmed that same $91 target just 17 days ago while…
The busiest day of the season is here. Amazon and Intel report Q3 results after the US close, alongside Bristol-Myers Squibb, Gilead Sciences, and Illumina. In Europe, ING Groep, Renault, and Volkswagen all…
Options bulls are piling hardest into semiconductors. Micron Technology topped both the positive bets and negative bets league tables over the past seven days, a sign of heavy two-way flow rather than clean directional…
Short sellers added most to ChronoScale (CHRN): short interest rose 9.8 points in a session to 23.3% of free float, against a one-year high of 29.1%, while the stock gained 2.4% over the week. The largest cover was in…
Today brings a wall of earnings. Amazon and Intel both report Q3 results after the close, alongside Bristol-Myers Squibb, Gilead Sciences, and Illumina. In Europe, ING Groep and Renault deliver results this morning.…
Earnings season is driving a fresh wave of target price revisions, with data centre infrastructure and consumer platforms seeing the biggest upgrades. VRT collected the most bullish shift. Vertiv Holdings saw its…
The most recent insider filings available through ORTEX data, dated to early September 2026, show a pattern of large-scale selling across Asian and emerging market names, with few significant open-market purchases to…
Short sellers have been busy this week. Data as of 28 October shows several notable moves in both established and newly listed names. GRND saw the sharpest rise among larger stocks. Its short interest jumped to 20.5%…
LKQ reports Q3 results today. The options market just signalled acute anxiety about the outcome. Why this matters: The put/call ratio hit 0.75 on October 28, a 4.2 standard deviation spike above its 20-day mean of…
Xylem fell 17% in the past week, against a median gain of 0.2% for its closest peers. The selloff was company-specific, triggered by earnings results released October 27 that prompted a broad analyst reset and a sharp…
Intel stock has risen to $95.53 after its Q4 print, shorts have cut 10.6% of their position in one week, and New Street Research just placed a $125 target on the stock. Three data points are pulling in the same…
Houlihan Lokey reports second-quarter earnings today. The boutique M&A and restructuring adviser is attracting an unusual burst of retail attention at the same moment short sellers are stepping back. Wikipedia views…
Renasant Corporation collected a Raymond James downgrade this morning, the day after Q3 earnings landed and the stock fell 3.7%. The rating moves from Strong Buy to Outperform, with the price target cut to $45 from…
Short interest in Builders FirstSource has climbed to 8.8% of free float, the highest reading since late September, with a 14.9% week-on-week rise that puts it at its steepest level in over a year. The company reports…
SO, The Southern Company, is today's most striking data point. NRC data tracked by ORTEX shows reactor output sitting 10 standard deviations below its own history as of 27 October. That is the sharpest reading in the…
Options flow is flashing caution on US utilities this week. The sharpest signal comes from SO. ORTEX alt data shows Southern Company's reactor output fell 10 standard deviations below its own history as of 27 October,…
The week is already live with earnings. Renault posts its sales statement today. Austrian car registration data, which leads Renault revenue by 32 days, is running +6% on the same quarter last year. Dutch car data…
SO, The Southern Company, recorded reactor output 10.0 standard deviations below its own history on 27 October 2026. That is the sharpest deviation ORTEX has measured in the nuclear output dataset. The reading is not a…
Analyst activity on Wednesday skewed toward transport and utilities. Old Dominion Freight Line picked up an upgrade, with consensus buy recommendations climbing to 13 from 9. The average target price edged lower to…
The most striking US insider move in recent filings came from UBER. Andrew MacDonald, President and Chief Operating Officer, filed on September 8 that he bought $4.1 million worth of Uber shares on September 4. He paid…
