Hey everybody, Rob Maurer here and today we're going to be talking about the U.S. Department

of Justice looking a little bit more closely into short sellers.

We also have what seems to be a pretty significant update on a lithium contract for Tesla.

Got some rumors in China, some interesting videos from Giga Texas, news on adaptive headlights,

somewhat shocking specs on GM's EV Hummer and a few other items as well.

Looking at the stock, the markets did have a pretty nice recovery in the afternoon,

but ended up being a pretty boring low volume day.

Tesla won 10th of a percent to 92339, and has decked down 1 10th of a percent.

So not a whole lot to say here in the afternoon.

Of course, the Federal Open Market Committee meeting minutes did come out.

Remember those are on a delayed release, so these are from the meeting three weeks back.

But the market likes to keep an eye on that and obviously reacted,

relatively positively to that release today.

I think Bloomberg had a quote that captured the sentiment while it said,

with no explicit discussion of a date to begin balance sheet runoff,

or of the idea of a 50 basis point hike in March,

the minutes are on the less hawkish side of expectations,

said Ian Shepardson, chief economist at Pantheon,

macroeconomics.

But they aren't the last word on anything,

given the worst then expected inflation and wages data,

released since that meeting.

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