Hey everybody, Rob Mauer here, and today we are talking about a big spike in commodity

prices especially for nickel, we've also got updates on FSD from Elon Musk, more news

on Gigaburlin and Texas, update on a battery factory from GM and a couple of other things

as well.

Alright, looking at the markets today, this will carry into our conversation about commodities

in a second, but the NASDAQ down 3.6% tough day for the Dow and the S&P as well.

We then Tesla down 4% on the day to close at $804.58, so a little bit worse than the

NASDAQ, but considering Tesla's high multiple, really not all that bad, and certainly a lot

of other stocks performing worse today.

Looking ahead at the rest of this week, a couple of things to keep an eye on, of course,

in addition to Russia and Ukraine, we do have the China passenger car association numbers

for February, and those are likely to come out.

Sometime early this week, we might get those before we market open tomorrow, actually.

I think we're likely to see some pretty decent numbers here, but remember a couple things

to keep in mind.

First, February is just a short month, only 28 days, and then that is further impacted

by Chinese New Year, likely a few down days for production there at the start of the

month, so probably not a great catalyst for the stock or anything like that, but should

be some good information for us to extrapolate out for the rest of the quarter.

The other item then, which is Thursday about an hour before market open, is the Core

CPI Consumer Price Index Report.

That'll show inflation month over month and year over year, and those numbers are still

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