Funds

What the largest funds own and how their holdings changed.

Insiders

What the people who run and own a company buy and sell, plan to sell and are paid.

Market signals

Short selling, settlement failures, splits, and how much attention a company is getting.

Short interestHow many shares are sold short in each stock, reported twice a month by FINRA. Positions are counted twice a month, and FINRA publishes them about a week later, so the latest report never includes today's short selling.Fails to deliverShares that were sold but not delivered by the settlement date, from the SEC: the largest balances by value and as a share of trading. Not the same as short interest. The SEC posts the first half of a month around the end of that month and the second half around the 15th of the next, without a guarantee, so the latest settlement date is usually two to six weeks old. We check every night.Daily short volumeHow much of each stock's off-exchange trading was short selling on the latest day, from FINRA's daily files. Not the same as short interest. FINRA posts each day's file by about 6 p.m. Eastern time, and we collect it that evening, so the latest day is the last trading day.Wikipedia page viewsHow often each company's Wikipedia article is read, and which articles are being read far more than usual. Wikimedia publishes a day's views about a day later, and we collect them every morning, so the latest day is usually two days old.App store ratingsThe average rating and number of ratings of the main App Store apps of listed companies, and how they are changing. We take one snapshot a day, early in the morning Eastern time. The history is short: it starts on the day we began collecting, which the note above the table gives.H-1B visa applicationsLabor condition applications that employers file with the US Department of Labor, a required step before an H-1B petition. An application is not a hire, and one can cover several workers. The Department publishes the fiscal year to date about six weeks after each quarter ends (October to December is quarter one), so the newest decisions are about two months old. We check every week; most weeks nothing is new.Stock splitsForward and reverse stock splits, with the ratio and the date each one took effect. We update the list every day, after the day's prices arrive. It lists splits that have taken effect; announced splits that are still ahead are not in it.Bank financialsDeposits, uninsured share, commercial real estate, past-due loans, charge-offs and capital for the banks listed companies own, from FDIC call reports.Credit card metricsMonthly net charge-offs, late payments and balances on credit card loans, from issuers' 8-Ks and card trusts' 10-Ds.Consumer complaintsConsumer complaints to the CFPB by listed company, the latest three months against a year earlier, by product and issue.

Corporate events

Filings and notices that say something is about to change at a company: offerings, deals, layoffs, enforcement, approvals.

8-K eventsMajor news companies must report to the SEC: results, deals, leadership changes. We collect new filings throughout the day on SEC business days.IPO filingsCompanies filing to go public: the first registration, each amendment, the pricing and any withdrawal. We collect new filings every night, once the SEC has finished its index for the day.DealsMergers, tender offers and going-private deals, grouped from the SEC filings that announce and carry them out. We collect new filings through the day on weekdays, as the SEC posts them.Private placements (Form D)Companies and funds raising money privately: how much they offer, how much they have sold and how many investors, from SEC Form D. We collect new filings every night. For older years we use the quarterly data sets the SEC publishes.Merger clearances (HSR)Mergers and acquisitions the FTC and Justice Department cleared early under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act, with the public companies among them. Granted requests only. We check the FTC's list every day. A notice is published when early termination is granted, which is before the deal closes.Layoff notices (WARN)Mass layoffs and plant closings that employers report to state governments under the WARN Act, with the public companies among them. We check each state's list every day. States add notices on their own schedules, from the same week to several weeks later. New Jersey and Pennsylvania publish no notice date, so their notices appear only when you search by ticker.SEC enforcementLitigation releases, administrative proceedings and trading suspensions that the SEC publishes, with the listed companies among the names. We check the SEC's lists several times a day on SEC business days.PatentsNew US patents granted to public companies. Grants are published every Tuesday, and we collect them weekly.Clinical trial updatesDrug and device trials that companies register on ClinicalTrials.gov: newly completed phase 3 studies, changes of status and the dates a study is due to finish. We check the registry every day. Sponsors update records on their own schedule, from the same week to months later, so a change can appear in the registry well after it happened.FDA approvals and clearancesNew drugs and biologics the FDA approved, and the devices it cleared or approved, from openFDA, with the public companies among the applicants. We check openFDA every day. The FDA refreshes its files on its own schedule, and a decision can appear days to weeks after its date, so the latest approvals may show up late.

Congress and government

What members of Congress and the executive branch trade, how they vote, who funds them and which companies win government money.

Congressional tradesStock trades disclosed by members of the House and Senate under the STOCK Act. Members have up to 45 days to report a trade, so some trades appear weeks after they happened. We collect new House reports every few hours and Senate reports once a day.Executive-branch tradesStock trades reported by the President, Cabinet members and other senior officials of the executive branch, from OGE Form 278-T. Officials must report within 30 days of being notified of a trade and no later than 45 days after it, so a trade can appear weeks after it happened. We check both sites every day.Bills in CongressBills and resolutions in the House and Senate, with each sponsor, policy area and latest action. Congress.gov updates through the day and we collect it daily. A bill returns to the top of the list each time it takes a new step.Roll-call votesHow the House and Senate voted on each recorded vote, with every member's position and the bill voted on. We collect new votes several times a day on weekdays while Congress is in session. Congress takes breaks of days and weeks, and the list does not change while it does.Corporate PAC donationsGifts from company political action committees to candidates for Congress, from FEC reports. The FEC rebuilds its files weekly and we collect them daily. A gift appears only once its report is filed, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.LobbyingWho pays Washington lobbyists, how much, and on which issues. Quarterly reports are due 20 days after each quarter ends, so they arrive in waves. We collect them daily.Capitol HiresLobbyists whose filings say they once worked in a member of Congress' office, on a committee or in the executive branch, with the public company that hired them. New filings are posted every day. We read each one the day after it is posted.Lobbying and contractsWhat each company reports spending on lobbying, next to the federal contracts it was awarded, by year, with the agencies that appear on both sides. Lobbying reports arrive quarterly, up to 20 days after the quarter ends. Contract awards are collected daily. The table is rebuilt after each daily collection.Government contractsFederal contracts awarded to public companies. New awards and changes appear within days. We collect them daily.

Real estate

Mortgages insured by the Federal Housing Administration: which lenders make the most home loans and reverse mortgages, and who holds apartment and care-home loans.

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