$Oracle (ORCL.US)$ covered call sellers are likely buying back options ahead of earnings as shares extended their rebound from a five-month low.
The tally of outstanding call options that give their holder the right to buy Oracle shares at $220 each by the end of next week fell by 3,360 contracts to 10,680 contracts Monday, the biggest decline among options tied to the tech giant.
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Trading in $NVIDIA (NVDA.US)$'s borrowed shares that were sold short rose Monday,  as President Donald Trump announced that the company can ship H200 chips to China, potentially reopening access to the Asian nation that once accounted for more than a quarter of the semiconductor giant's total sales.
Short volume rose to 13.71 million shares, from 12.41 million shares a day earlier, as the stock advanced, stre...

$Broadcom (AVGO.US)$ attracted a bullish $153 million call option block trade days before the semiconductor company that’s helping $Alphabet-A (GOOGL.US)$ produce a chip rivaling $NVIDIA (NVDA.US)$, is due to report financial results. That's the biggest block trade posted so far Monday.
Analysts, on average, expect the maker of Google's tensor processing units (TPUs) to post a 24% jump in revenue in the fiscal ...

$CoreWeave (CRWV.US)$ saw lower trading in borrowed shares sold short before the cloud provider announced a $2 billion convertible debt offering, helping send the stock more than 5% lower.
Trading in shorted stocks fell to 2.34 million shares Friday, from 3.28 million a day earlier. The latest short volume represented about 11.7% of the total shares that changed hands at the end of last week when the stock close...

$Tesla (TSLA.US)$ is seeing increasing demand for put options that can shield their holders against a potential slump as the electric vehicle giant continues to struggle to revive sales.
About 1.14 million put options changed hands with less than an hour left into the trading day, up from 883,000 contracts a day earlier and the 20-day average of 967,167 contracts.
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Trading in borrowed $SoFi Technologies (SOFI.US)$ shares that were sold short edged higher Thursday, before the company announced a public offering of almost 55 million shares, sending the stock tumbling Friday.
Shares slumped more than 8% to $27.21 in the first half hour of trading Friday after the company said it plans to raise $1.5 billion from the offering. It also said it has granted the underwriters a ...

$Meta Platforms (META.US)$ attracted a bullish block trade worth almost $7 million of optionsas the stock advanced after a report that the social media giant is considering cutting spending for the company's metaverse group.
Shares rose as much as 5.7% Thursday after Bloomberg reported that CEO Mark Zuckerberg is looking at cuts of as much as 30% on a business segment that investors viewed to be a drain on the...

$NVIDIA (NVDA.US)$ saw the biggest trading in borrowed shares that were sold short as the stock retreated Wednesday as investors weigh the company's robust growth outlook against increasing competition among chipmakers seeking to catch up to the dominant player in the artificial intelligence space.
Google parent $Alphabet-A (GOOGL.US)$'s tensor processing unit (TPU), the application-specific integrated c...

$Netflix (NFLX.US)$ saw increasing demand for put options that can protect their holders against a continued slump for shares that have already tumbled 23% since the end of June.
Shares declined almost 5% Wednesday to close at its lowest level since April, amid concerns that a potential deal to buy $Warner Bros Discovery (WBD.US)$ could weigh on the stock of the dominant streaming company.
Put options that give ...

$Intel (INTC.US)$ saw the biggest trading in borrowed shares that were sold short as the stock jumped Tuesday to its highest level in 20 months, strengthening the case for bears to close out their bets against the legacy chipmaker  whose shares have more than double this year.
The stock rallied yesterday after Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim posted on $Meta Platforms (META.US)$'s Facebook that the chipmake...