Car market fires on all cylinders in Q3
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Aston Martin, Audi, Bentley, BMW, Bugatti, Cars, China, Ducati, Ford, Mercedes-Benz, Mini, Tesla, Vehicles, Volkswagen
- November 4, 2020
One of the themes in the latest raft of corporate earnings is that the automotive sector’s engine is starting to rev again. The driver of the recovery is China, with the horrors of lockdown seemingly long forgotten. Western nations are dealing with renewed pandemic issues, as countries like the UK get locked down again. The purchase of a new car …
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Tesla: best quarter in history
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China, Electric vehicles, Elon Musk, Energy, Ford, General Motors, Gigafactory, Solar, Tesla, Toyota, Volkswagen
- October 25, 2020
Tesla has released its much-anticipated Q3 results. “Alright, so Q3 was our best quarter in history.” Those were the opening words of Elon Musk on the Tesla Q3 earnings call. A sales record combined with free cash flow of $1.4bn is certainly impressive, but as ever I remain concerned about the hype around this company which does not operate in …
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Beware of Robinhood
This may sound like a fairytale, but it could have an unhappy ending. Robinhood is the US stockbroking app that has driven an influx of literally millions of (particularly younger) investors who have bought American stocks on a fractional ownership basis. Fractional ownership is the same principle that Easy Equities uses locally, which allows people to invest a specific amount …
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Beware of Robinhood
This may sound like a fairytale, but it could have an unhappy ending. Robinhood is the US stockbroking app that has driven an influx of literally millions of (particularly younger) investors who have bought American stocks on a fractional ownership basis. Fractional ownership is the same principle that Easy Equities uses locally, which allows people to invest a specific amount …
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FAANG? I choose FAAAM, fam.
Many of you are familiar with the term FAANG, although a recent poll I ran on Facebook did suggest that many readers think it is a type of tooth. It’s not a tooth It stands for Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google (although the listed holding company of Google is called Alphabet these days). Coined a few years ago, the …
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Tesla ready to plug in to the S&P 500
The S&P500 is a stock index. An index is simply a weighted average of a bunch of underlying stocks, allowing investors to track how an overall market is doing. Every index has certain rules for inclusion. The starting point is usually (but not always) a specific stock market (e.g. the JSE) followed by a sorting system (by industry e.g. the …
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