Hey everybody Rob, now we're here and today we're going to be talking about some new restrictions

placed on Tesla in China that have been getting a lot of attention today.

We also have an update on Tesla's newest casting machine, a little bit of news in Michigan,

an update on Bitcoin, and then I thought we could end the week with a quick check-in

on SpaceX.

Tesla stock, after trading down all day today, managed to finish in the green with I think

the help of the closing cross trade.

If you're not familiar with that trade, I have done an episode on that, go check that out.

But in that last 10 minutes of trading, Tesla managed to sneak into the green,

finishing up a quarter percent to $654.87, that compared to the NASDAQ up 3.4%

as yields all the rage to talk about lately held pretty steady throughout the day.

Alright, so the big news on Tesla today, which sure has generated a lot of fun headlines,

is that Tesla's cars have been banned by China on military complexes and military housing compounds.

From Bloomberg, I think they may have been the first to report on this before market

open this morning, quote, Tesla cars have been banned from Chinese military complexes and housing

compounds because of concerns about sensitive data being collected by cameras built into the

vehicles. The order, issued by the military, advises Tesla owners to park their cars outside

of military property, according to people familiar with the directive, who ask not to be identified

because the information is private. The ban, related to residents of military housing this week,

was triggered by concerns that the world's biggest maker of electric vehicles

is collecting sensitive data via the cars and built cameras,

in a way the Chinese government can't see or control one of the people said.

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