Hey everybody, Rob Mauer here, happy Friday.

Today we've got some confirmation from Tesla on the progress of 4680 batteries, we also

have a new patent on castings, a rumor on Tesla and Uber, a little bit of analysis on recalls

a stock split for SpaceX and a couple other things as well.

Not the most exciting day in the markets again, Tesla down 2.2% to 856 dollars, 98 cents

while a NASDAQ was down 1.2%, we're now halfway through the quarter, things feel a little

bit boring right now, I would say, in terms of Tesla specifically, obviously the lot going

on from a macro perspective, but we're in one of those waiting periods for Tesla waiting

for Gigafactory news for first quarter results, and I think the volume in general has reflected

that continued to be low again this week.

We do have a bit of an update on interest rates here, the Wall Street Journal reporting

on comments made by Federals of President for New York, John Williams.

These comments are tempering expectations for an even larger potential rate increase

in March, said quote, there's really no kind of compelling argument that you have to

be faster right in the beginning, there's no need to do something extra at the beginning

of the process of liftoff, we can steadily move up interest rates and reassess, I don't

feel a need that we'd have to move really fast at the beginning.

End quote.

Well I don't know that I would fully agree that there is no kind of compelling argument,

I mean the Fed has been I think pretty clear that inflation has been ahead of what they

would have expected.

If one of the tools to combat that is raising interest rates, it's pretty easy to make

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