Hello and welcome to the Friday January 25th 2019 edition of Tesla Daily Unofficial Tesla Podcast.

My name is Rob Maower.

Today we're talking about updated short interest for Tesla stock, as well as a couple other

pieces of Tesla news.

Tesla stock on the day today finished up 1.90% to $297.4

This compared to the NASDAQ up 1.29% with the markets today benefiting in general

from the temporary reopening of the US government until at least

February 15th.

After market closed today, we did get updated short interest numbers.

These are from the reporting date of January 15th.

This is the first time since the Q3 earnings report

that we have seen a short interest increase.

So previous reporting period on December 31st,

25.6 million shares were sold short. That increased now to 26.3 million shares as of January 15th.

That brings an end to the streak of five consecutive reporting periods that we had seen short interest decline.

Short interest is still relatively low or was still relatively low as of the 15th,

excluding the prior period, this is the lowest that we've seen short interest since

August of 2016. The average short interest in 2018 was about 32 and a half

million shares putting the most recent reported short interest about 26% below that average.

The next short interest report that we get is going to be extremely interesting because the date

for that report is January 31st. That will be one day after earnings. In fact, that will be the first trading day after earnings. We probably won't be able to learn that much from the report just because even if short

interest does change significantly we won't be able to tell how much of that

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