Hey everybody, Rob Mauer here, and today we are going to be talking about the week ahead.

We've also got news on a lithium contract for Tesla, updates on Musk's Twitter acquisition,

some energy news, a shareholder letter from Rivian, some news on SpaceX, and a few other

items as well.

And as I mentioned on Friday, this week is going to be a live stream week, as editor

Jossum is on vacation, so I appreciate your patience with a little bit less edited style

this week.

Alright, so looking at the stock, pretty uneventful start to the week, Tesla up 1.6% today,

to just under $750 per share, and as deck up, 4% of a percent, should be a pretty interesting

week this week in the markets, as of course, on Friday, we do have the CPI report for May.

Obviously, a lot of repercussions of that, as we look through and await the next Fed meeting,

and see what interest rates do from here, if we do get a higher CPI number, that would reflect

on the next Fed meeting, probably increasing the expectation for interest rate increases,

and the commentary around those, which is almost just as important.

So investing.com right now has the forecast for the month of a month increase in CPI to be

half a percent. It looks like that has been rising a little bit. This hasn't seemed to be the

most updated number when I've looked at it, but Morningstar is reporting that, according to

a survey from the Wall Street Journal, compiling estimates, the current expectation is 0.7%

in terms of that month and month increase for the May numbers, so it looks like those expectations

have been rising a little bit, and that 0.7% increase probably tracks somewhere around an 8%

year-over-year number, which is right around what we've been seeing there for March and April.

We'll see if the number comes in higher than that, then that would deteriorate the argument of

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