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...That would put Tesla’s auto profitability back to where it was in 2017, shortly after the launch of the Model 3. Will the margin guidance be any better? And even if it is, will it be believed?...
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...He was an early adopter, paying the $20 a month to subscribe to each of OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Anthropic’s Claude 3, as well as using open-source language models such as Perplexity AI....
...In the last fiscal year, R&D costs were equal to 7.8 per cent of revenue, up from 3.3 per cent in 2014. But it has not been willing to fund a new supply chain for mass car production....
...The $5.9bn is significantly higher than the $3.9bn takeover bid Altium received in 2021 from software company Autodesk, which it rejected....
...Noom was last valued at $3.7bn in 2021, and is likely to go public this year, according to PitchBook....
...Daily passenger arrivals throughout 2023 were mostly well below the 3,000 mark, while in 2019 they were mostly above 5,000....
...of inflows has been chasing a scarce asset that will only get more scarce after this month’s quadrennial “halving” event in the bitcoin system, when the rewards for miners for verifying a block halve to 3.125...
...A US federal judge has blocked JetBlue Airways’ proposed $3.8bn acquisition of Spirit Airlines, in a victory for the Biden administration’s top antitrust enforcer at the Department of Justice....
...By contrast, Home Depot suffered a 3 per cent decline in full-year revenues as its retail customers put off big DIY projects. Rival Lowe’s reported an even steeper 11 per cent drop in annual sales....
...latest of bitcoin’s quadrennial “halving” event and my inbox is awash with predictions about where bitcoin will go once the incentives for miners to verify new blocks of transactions are cut in half, to 3.125...
...of this . . . the Momentum Factor ETF (MTUM) has stalled, reflecting some modest relative weakening from Tech, but the % of stocks above the 200-day moving average closed at its highest level in about 3...
...The US dollar index is up 3 per cent this year. Recent renminbi weakness has looked much like the yen’s, and has also invited speculation about official intervention....
...ISS’s complaint is targeted just at her fixed salary, which would rise from €3.27mn to €3.43mn....
...Among the Mag7, only Tesla (whose shares are down 20 per cent so far this year) has weaker EPS momentum than Apple: 3. How many iGadgets can the world afford?...
...Ditto, in the UK, Melrose’s 1-3 share consolidation last year. Then again, plenty of US companies also spurn splits. Veteran investor Warren Buffett is one naysayer....
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...In March 2023 the iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF (ESGU) haemorrhaged $3.9bn in one day. On the same day the iShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF (QUAL) saw a $4.8bn jump in net inflows....
...The central government announced Rmb1tn in surprise borrowing in the fourth quarter, which analysts think will raise China’s fiscal deficit above 3 per cent of GDP — loosely considered its red line....
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