Oh boy – Supply Chain Concerns again?
Summertime lines – for goods/food? Empty shelves?
China factories shutting down.
Talks/No-Talks Underway with China/US.
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- Now Supply Chain Concerns
- Summertime lines - for goods/food? Empty shelves?
- China factories shutting down
- Talks/No-Talks Underway with China/US
- DONE DONE DONE - Lutnick
- Capital Raise - Big Boost - ELON
- Economics - Big Week
- Earnings - The big tech names are on tap
- Berkshire annual meeting and earnings this weekend
- Elon Musk's xAI Holdings is in discussions with investors to raise about $20 billion, Bloomberg News reported.
- The funding would value the company at over $120 billion, according to the report.
- THIS: The artificial intelligence firm last month acquired X in an all-stock deal that valued xAI at $80 billion and the social media platform at $33 billion.
- "This combination will unlock immense potential by blending xAI's advanced AI capability and expertise with X's massive reach."
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ELON also says that he will be stepping back from DOGE and refocus on TESLA- Tesla reported a $97 million loss due to digital assets, the company’s Bitcoin holdings. In the fourth quarter, there was a gain of $270 million.
- Tesla now excludes Bitcoin swings from its non-GAAP results. Tesla also backs out stock-based compensation from its adjusted numbers.
- That means the Bitcoin gains were included in the company’s fourth-quarter adjusted results, and the losses weren’t included in the first-quarter adjusted results.
- Tesla’s report states that the accounting switch was due to the “adoption of the new crypto assets standard.”
Powell Under Fire - Update
- All is good - no new discussions is