Oracle Turns the Tables on Its Short Sellers With Earnings Blowout $Oracle(ORCL)$ just turned the tables on the traders betting against it. Short volume almost doubled to 5.09 million shares on Thursday, before the tech giant's financial results beat on the most important metrics, with its cloud business surging 121%. Short volume counts the shares sold short in a single session. A short sale is a wager that a stock will fall, so when that count climbs and the share price rises, the sellers face potential losses and may be forced to buy back — the classic squeeze. Oracle reported fiscal first-quarter revenue of $19.35 billion after the market closed on Thursday, beating the $19.13 billion analysts e
Stocks Rally Despite Rising Rate-Hike Odds. Should Investors Buy or Cut Risk? U.S. stocks staged a seemingly counterintuitive move on Friday: CPI came in hotter than expected and the odds of a Fed rate hike next week climbed further, yet all three major indexes moved higher, led by the Nasdaq. With a 25-basis-point hike now largely priced in, investors are shifting their focus to the path ahead: Will the Fed keep hiking after this move? Why Are Stocks Rising Despite Hotter CPI? First, the 10-year Treasury yield briefly approached 5% but failed to break decisively higher. For tech stocks, a sustained rise in long-term yields would add further valuation pressure. The stabilization in yields has therefore given growth stocks some room to rebound. Meanwhile, oil prices pulled back after their
SpaceX Volatility Sinks to Post-IPO Low as CFO Touts Orbital Compute $Space Exploration Technologies Corp(SPCX)$ options have rarely been cheaper. Implied volatility, the market's price tag for expected future swings, sits in the eighth percentile of its brief public history — traders are pricing calm even after its CFO touted the company's AI compute capacity both on earth and in orbit. The stock itself has been quiet. Shares closed up 0.4% on Thursday after SpaceX launched a classified payload for the U.S. Space Force, its 104th Falcon 9 flight of the year. It continued to trade in a relatively narrow range, swinging between a gain of 1.6% and a loss of 1.5% Friday. The gentle drift masks a busier news tape. On Thursday, Chief Financ
OpenAI and Anthropic Just Reignited the AI Hardware Trade The AI trade is rotating back toward hardware. OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra launch and Anthropic's latest research breakthroughs have helped revive a simple investment thesis: frontier AI progress still requires enormous physical infrastructure. Better AI still needs more compute GPT-6 Astra delivered another major jump in reasoning and scientific capabilities. More important for hardware investors, $NVIDIA(NVDA)$ CEO Jensen Huang said Astra was trained on more than 100,000 Nvidia Grace Blackwell NVLink72 GPUs and that another 400,000 GPUs are "coming online next." Anthropic is sending a similar capability signal, with Claude recently advan
Memory Stocks: The Case for a Second Leg Up Is Getting Stronger Memory stocks stood out on Friday, September 4: $SanDisk Corp.(SNDK)$ surged 11.9%, while $Micron Technology(MU)$ gained about 6%, even as the S&P 500 finished lower. Then came Goldman Sachs' September 7 readout from Samsung's non-deal roadshow, or NDR. Samsung put memory demand fulfillment at only around 60%, reiterated that supply conditions could be tighter in 2027 than in 2026, and said shortages could persist into 2028. That update came after Friday's rally, but it strengthens the fundamental case behind it. The Shortage Could Last Longer Than Investors Expect Samsung's NDR adds detail o
Michael Burry Calls Lululemon His "Trickster"—Is LULU a Fat Pitch or a Value Trap? $Lululemon Athletica(LULU)$ fell 17.4% to $100.61 last Friday, its lowest level in roughly eight years, bringing its year-to-date decline to about 52%. A stronger U.S. jobs report pushed rate-hike expectations higher and weighed on consumer discretionary stocks, but Lululemon's much steeper drop was mostly company-specific: North American sales weakened further, full-year guidance was cut again, and international growth also started to slow. Even contrarian investor Michael Burry has become more cautious on the stock. So the real question is no longer how far LULU has fallen. It is this: At around $100, is Lululemon finally
Software Stocks Make a Strong Comeback — Keep an Eye on These Names This earnings season has brought a notable recovery for US SaaS & software names. Multiple companies delivered robust results across revenue, cloud revenue, ARR/RPO order backlog and cash flow. Several stocks surged more than 30% on the first trading day post‑earnings, as the market repriced growth upside enabled by enterprise AI. In terms of market performance, $Atlassian Corporation PLC(TEAM)$ led the sector with a 35.31% post‑earnings jump. $Doximity, Inc.(DOCS)$ and $Palantir Technologies Inc.(PLTR)$
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Nvidia Options Market Prices in $281 Billion Swing Ahead of Earnings $NVIDIA(NVDA)$ options are pricing in a 5.51% move in the chipmaker's shares a day after reporting its fiscal second quarter financial results with Wall Street closely watching for evidence of robust artificial intelligence infrastructure demand and the company's outlook. Options-implied pricing indicates a projected share price swing that could translate to a massive $281 billion market-cap shift. That's lower than the historical average price change of 7%. As investors await the results, options traders are curiously underpricing volatility compared to past norms, even as the stock sits pinned between a heavy put wall and a call
QQQ Rebounds as Bullish Call Bet Targets Record Highs $Invesco QQQ(QQQ)$ rebounded Tuesday, trading back near $709. Tech stocks recovered from Monday's selloff, with $NVIDIA(NVDA)$ , $Advanced Micro Devices(AMD)$ , $Micron Technology (MU.US)$, $Intel (INTC.US)$, and $Broadcom (AVGO.US)$ moving higher, while lower Treasury yields also eased some valuation pressure on growth stocks. During the rebound, a large bullish QQQ options trade hit the tape, with roughly $8.5 million in premium betting on further upside over the next few months — potentia
Marvell Earnings Preview: Will Google Trigger Another Major Guidance Raise? $Marvell Technology(MRVL)$ , a leading data infrastructure semiconductor company, will report Q2 FY27 results after the U.S. market close on August 27. Following its recently expanded $Alphabet(GOOG)$ custom silicon partnership, the biggest question is whether management will materially raise its FY27 and FY28 revenue outlook. Core Financial Indicators – Revenue consensus is $2.71 billion, up 35% YoY, versus guidance of $2.70 billion. – GAAP gross margin consensus is 52.6%, up 2.2 points YoY, versus guidance of 53.1%. Non GAAP gross margin consen
Rocket Lab Shot Up 460% in a Year, Then Sank 50%. Here's Its Chart Rocket Lab shot up more than 460% over 12 months to hit a $151 all-time high on May 27, but fell back to Earth and sank some 50% in the nearly four months since then. Let's see what the space-launch firm's chart and fundamentals can tell us about what might happen next. Rocket Lab's Fundamental Analysis $Rocket Lab USA, Inc.(RKLB)$ released Q2 results earlier this month, posting a $0.02 adjusted loss per share on $234.1 million of revenue – easily beating the Street's expectations. Perhaps most notably, the firm's order backlog reached $2.4 billion during the quarter, representing 137% in year-over-year growth. Management also guided
Nvidia Short Volume Climbs 69% as Smart Money Takes Chip Off Table $NVIDIA(NVDA)$ saw its short volume jump 69% amid a tug-of-war between retail’s resilient dip-buying appetite and nervous smart money taking chips off the table. Shares slipped 2.9% Monday, two days ahead of its blockbuster earnings test, as Wall Street skeptics quietly sharpened their pencils. The daily short volume climbed to 12.5 million shares Friday, with institutional block orders flashing net outflows. Short volume metric represents the total number of shares borrowed and sold short during a single trading session, meaning bearish traders are actively betting against near-term price continuation. Over the weekend, Reuters reported t
Tesla Rebounds 20%: Are Options Betting on More? $Tesla Motors(TSLA)$ jumped more than 5% on Friday to around $364. The stock has now rebounded more than 20% from its late-July low near $297, as progress in Robotaxi and Cybercab brings growth expectations back into focus. Meanwhile, TSLA options activity has picked up sharply, with Call volume concentrated around the $350–$370 strikes, suggesting traders are leaning into the rebound. Call Volume Surges as Bulls Step In TSLA options expiring within the next 30 days recorded roughly 3.78 million contracts in volume, including 2.4 million Calls versus 1.38 million Puts. The volume Put/Call ratio fell to 0.57. Call activity was particularly heavy between $350
SpaceX's $60 Billion Acquisition of Cursor Says AI Coding Is Real. Who Wins Next? AI coding is one of the most easily monetizable segments in the broader AI value chain. The recent completion of $Space Exploration Technologies Corp(SPCX)$ 's acquisition of Cursor on August 14 underscores strong capital interest in this space. Cursor has already achieved an annualized revenue of over $4 billion as of June this year, with a significantly higher share of enterprise customers. According to Battery Ventures' 2026 Enterprise Survey, Cursor's "any-use" adoption rate among enterprises stands at approximately 60%. Following the transaction, Anysphere's existing shareholders received a total of roughly 389.3 million shares of SpaceX Class A common sto
Memory Stocks Swing Wildly: Can AI and HBM Break the Traditional Cycle? Memory stocks rebounded broadly on Thursday, with $SK hynix (SKHY.US)$, $Seagate Technology (STX.US)$, $SanDisk (SNDK.US)$, $Western Digital(WDC)$ , and $Micron Technology(MU)$ all moving higher. The sector had been under pressure in recent sessions. On Wednesday, Treasury yields fell sharply and SK Hynix announced a massive share buyback, yet memory stocks still gave up early gains. The muted response to positive catalysts has brought one key question back into focus: Is the memory cycle approaching a peak, or are AI and HBM extending the traditional memory
Marvell Bears Spar With Bulls as Google Deal Bolsters Outlook $Marvell Technology(MRVL)$ bulls battled it out with bears looking to fade Wednesday’s gains that were fueled by a major commercial partnership with $Alphabet(GOOG)$ 's Google. Shares of the chipmaker swung between gains and losses Thursday after its 8% the previous session pushed eight of the 15 most commonly used technical indicators to flash warnings of a divergence or oversold conditions that could disrupt the rally. After yesterday's gains, the stock is now up 44% from its low on July 29. That could mean near-term caution or consolidation risk is elevated