Hey everybody, Rob Mauer here, and today we're going to be talking about an interesting

scenario that couldn't play out in the automotive market that has been mentioned by Tesla's

head of investor relations.

We've also gotten an update from Uber on their partnership with Hertz that utilizes

Tesla vehicles, a couple of recalls, another government investigation in a Tesla, and

a couple other items as well.

Alright, looking at the stock, another green day for Tesla despite a down-and-market

so the Nasdaq down 1.6% on the day, Tesla up to 10% though to close at $225.9.

Here in the after hours we are down about a percent, of course off the heels of a poor

earnings report from Amazon.

As we talked about earlier this week, sometimes those stocks can drag down other stocks that

might fall into a similar bucket, and Amazon after reporting saw a similar drop to what

we had seen from Meta, hitting down around 20%, it is recovering a bit now, but looks

like they did miss earnings expectations, revenue missed by a little bit on the top line

as well.

The earnings are a little bit tricky to kind of sus out because they've always got

that rivian evaluation impact affecting things, we've talked a little bit about that roller

coaster for them over the last few quarters, here in Q3, that netted them an earnings gain

of $1.1 billion, of course that's non-cash, it's just a markup, but still that was a

little bit over the third of their $2.9 billion in net income, more importantly though for

the fourth quarter their guidance was soft, they're expecting 2% to 8% growth year over

year and guiding for operating income between $0 and $4 billion, so kind of a wide range

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