3 January 2025

Tag: Tesla

Manganese X (MN.V) targets high-grade Mn in mining-friendly New Brunswick

The Green Movement, a push that is gaining momentum around the globe spurred by zero-carbon climate warriors like Greta Thunberg, is all about meeting power demands through clean, renewable, and zero-emission energy sources. A few years back, The Economist jumped on the bandwagon in a not so subtle way… It’s all about energy storage. It’s…

2 September 2020
Nio (NIO.NYSE) surges 12%: Chinese Gov. doesn’t want Tesla (TSLA.Q) to humiliate the locals

NIO took a leaf out of Apple’s (AAPL.Q) playbook and outsourced production to a to a purpose-built factory run by JAC Motors (江淮汽车) a Chinese state-owned automobile manufacturer.

26 February 2020
OMG! Tesla (TSLA.Q) to the moon! Wait, what just happened, OMG!

If you guys can’t spot a bubble by now, what day in February did you start trading exactly? Tesla (TSLA.Q) stock has been on a nutty run lately, climbing from the $200 range in October to $969 yesterday. Or, rather ‘..to $969, 15 minutes before the end of trading today.’

6 February 2020
How Tesla (TSLA.Q) short-sellers lost their minds and their money

On February 3, 2020 Tesla (TSLA.Q) short-sellers (investors who bet against the stock) are losing their minds and their shirts. The electric car maker’s stock surged 19% to close at $780 on Monday after Argus Research raised its price target on Tesla from $556 to $808, maintaining a “buy rating’. Tesla’s share price has booked…

4 February 2020
(GDXJ.NYSE): junk bond market flashes warning sign

$1.2 trillion worth of corporate junk bond debt will mature in the next few years, leaving investors in a world of pain, as many of the bleeding corporations will be unable to repay the principle. “The biggest boom in corporate credit since the Great Recession in 2008 has led to warnings from regulators that a…

25 January 2020
Friday Recap: Don’t Price in WW3, Fed Minutes, and Tesla “Deliveries”

Fed Minutes The Federal Reserve released its minutes for the December meeting, and here are the key takeaways: The overarching tone of Fed minutes is that members are on the same page regarding policy. However, futures market data seems to have already priced in optimism for one more rate cut by the end of the…

4 January 2020
2019 weed wrap: The end of the cannabis cycle of cannabis cycles

Like the old Twilight Zone episode where helpful aliens leave behind a book called ‘To Serve Man’, only for us to find out later it’s a cookbook, investors have been welcomed and fattened up nicely by alpha predators as they unwittingly await their slaughter, not realizing that, they’re at the predator’s table because they’re the…

28 December 2019
Chinese delegation inspects Nano One’s (NNO.V) unsexy technology

In the 1990s, a Harvard professor, Clayton Christensen, invented the term disruptive innovation. Marketing people loved it. Some products (Airbnb, Smart phones, Uber, Netflix) earned the label. Many companies employed the term as a sloppy way to say, “we are different”. “Over the years, marketers and mainstream media co-opted the term, “disruptive innovation” and drove…

21 November 2017
Manganese X (MN.V) does a happy dance

Ask a Canadian investor about Potash – and they’ll start nattering about decreasing arable land and a new generation of carnivores in India. Same thing with gold, oil, copper, lithium, graphite; rudimentary knowledge is commonplace. Ask most people about Manganese, they’re not sure if it’s a baking ingredient or the family name of a French…

7 November 2017
Sri Lanka rising: Ceylon Graphite (CYL.C) flexes and shows bulging veins

Trying to “Make America Great Again” by reviving the coal industry – is like trying to extinguish a house fire by spitting on it. If coal employment was restored to 2003 levels, there would still be more people working in car washes. While the brain trust in Washington flaps its arms, China is opening its…

5 May 2017