Barclays PLC
NYSEBCS short interest surges 20% in one week to 5.4M shares, driven by recent earnings miss; cost to borrow climbs 80% amid tightening availability.
Barclays heads into its July 28 results with options positioning sharply tilted toward the bull side — an unusual setup for a major bank earnings. The clearest signal heading into the print is in options. The put/call…
BCS short sellers have dramatically unwound positions over the past month. Short interest has collapsed from roughly 5.9 million shares in late March to 1.78 million by May 5 — a 70% drop. Yet as that exit played out,…
Snapshot as of 6 Aug 2026
BCS enters the back half of April with the most dramatic single-month short reversal in its recent history — and options traders showing virtually no concern at all. The dominant story this week is how quickly the…
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