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Cabot Corporation has businesses in chemicals, performance materials, and specialty fluids.  The Company manufactures and sells carbon black, fumed silica, plastics, ink jet colorants, tantalum, niobium, and germanium.  Cabot's specialty fluids business produces and markets cesium formate as a drilling and completion fluid for use in oil and gas well operations.

<ul><li>Sentiment read: Options flow split sharply this week.</li><li>Momentum and ETF names drew aggressive call buying, pushing put-call ratios to historic lows.</li><li>At the same time, traders loaded up on puts ahead of several October and November earnings dates, a pattern that dominated the high-severity alerts.</li></ul>

Sentiment read: Options flow split sharply this week.Momentum and ETF names drew aggressive call buying, pushing put-call ratios to historic lows.At the same time, traders loaded up on puts ahead of several October and November earnings dates, a pattern that dominated the high-severity alerts.

Options Weekly: Bears Circle Earnings Names as Call Fever Grips Momentum Stocks

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Banco Bradesco S.A. is a prominent Brazilian financial services company offering a wide array of services including retail and corporate banking, loans, insurance, pensions, investments, and payment solutions. It is one of the largest private banks in Brazil and a major player in Latin America. The company was founded on March 10, 1943, and is headquartered in Osasco, Brazil.

<ul><li>Short interest shifted sharply this week across Brazilian financials, energy ETFs, and a clutch of mid-cap US names.</li><li>The biggest stories were a 56% surge in Bradesco shorts despite a JP Morgan upgrade, a 52% collapse in Nomura short interest, and a 41% single-day spike in a space ETF.</li><li>Borrow markets tightened across several names, signalling active repositioning on both sides.</li></ul>

Short interest shifted sharply this week across Brazilian financials, energy ETFs, and a clutch of mid-cap US names.The biggest stories were a 56% surge in Bradesco shorts despite a JP Morgan upgrade, a 52% collapse in Nomura short interest, and a 41% single-day spike in a space ETF.Borrow markets tightened across several names, signalling active repositioning on both sides.

Bears Scramble: Brazil Names and ETFs Dominate This Week's Short Moves

East West Bancorp, Inc. is the holding company for East-West Bank.  The Bank is a commercial bank specializing in commercial, construction, and real estate lending as well as financing international trade.  East-West operates throughout Los Angeles, Orange, San Francisco and Santa Clara counties.

<ul><li>Bullish call positioning defined the week of September 21.</li><li>Extreme low put-call ratios hit several names across autos, utilities, and financials.</li><li>Yet bearish hedging surged in equal measure elsewhere - earnings-linked put buying and sector-level stress signals kept the week far from one-directional.</li></ul>

Bullish call positioning defined the week of September 21.Extreme low put-call ratios hit several names across autos, utilities, and financials.Yet bearish hedging surged in equal measure elsewhere - earnings-linked put buying and sector-level stress signals kept the week far from one-directional.

Options Weekly: Calls Dominate, but Pockets of Fear Emerge

Intuitive Surgical, Inc. design, manufactures, and markets surgical systems. The Company offers endoscopes, endoscopic retractors and disectors, scissors, scalpels, forceps, needle holders, electrocautery, ultrasonic cutters, and accessories during surgical procedures. Intuitive Surgical operates worldwide.

<ul><li>Short sellers made decisive moves this week ending September 26.</li><li>Energy refining ETF CRAK saw SI hit 36.8% of float - up 38% in seven days.</li><li>Mortgage REIT RWT saw the sharpest build, with SI surging 215% to 22.1% of float as borrow dried up.</li></ul>

Short sellers made decisive moves this week ending September 26.Energy refining ETF CRAK saw SI hit 36.8% of float - up 38% in seven days.Mortgage REIT RWT saw the sharpest build, with SI surging 215% to 22.1% of float as borrow dried up.

Bears Charge Into Energy and Real Estate; Silver Shorts Flee

Amphenol Corporation designs, manufactures, and markets electrical, electronic and fiber optic connectors, interconnect systems, and coaxial and flat-ribbon cable.  The Company's products are used in a variety of industries, including telephone, wireless, and data communications systems, cable television systems, and commercial and military aerospace electronics.

<ul><li>Defensive options positioning dominated the week of August 31.</li><li>Across five high-severity pulses, traders piled into protective puts on names nursing sharp price declines.</li><li>The put/call ratio (PCR) - which measures put volume relative to call volume - spiked well above seasonal norms on multiple names, with several readings hitting 52-week extremes.</li></ul>

Defensive options positioning dominated the week of August 31.Across five high-severity pulses, traders piled into protective puts on names nursing sharp price declines.The put/call ratio (PCR) - which measures put volume relative to call volume - spiked well above seasonal norms on multiple names, with several readings hitting 52-week extremes.

Options Weekly: Put Buying Surges as Stocks Slide Into September