Key Points The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating 3.2 million Tesla vehicles. A recall would put Tesla's efforts to scale up its robotaxi operation in question. These 10 stocks could mint the next wave of millionaires › One of the biggest factors backing Tesla's (NASDAQ: TSLA) $1.2 trillion valuation is its investments into robotaxis. The robotaxi market, according to ...
Key Points The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating 3.2 million Tesla vehicles. A recall would put Tesla's efforts to scale up its robotaxi operation in question. These 10 stocks could mint the next wave of millionaires › One of the biggest factors backing Tesla's (NASDAQ: TSLA) $1.2 trillion valuation is its investments into robotaxis. The robotaxi market, according to some experts, could eventually be worth up to $10 trillion globally. And by many accounts, Tesla has an enviable position when it comes to taking a heavy share of this emerging market opportunity. There's just one problem: The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) recently escalated its investigation into Tesla's full self-driving (FSD) features, which are active in 3.2 million of its vehicles. How big a deal is this investigation? Tesla investors -- as well as investors in other electric vehicle (EV) stocks and autonomous driving stocks -- should pay close attention. Will AI create the world's first trillionaire? Our team just released a report on the one little-known company, called an "Indispensable Monopoly" providing the critical technology Nvidia and Intel both need. Continue » Here are the details of Tesla's regulatory probe According to reports from Reuters (part of Thomson Reuters), the "NHTSA first opened a preliminary evaluation into the automaker's FSD software in October 2024 in 2.4 million vehicles." But in recent weeks, that evaluation was expanded to 3.2 million vehicles, with the NHTSA fearing that "the system may fail to detect or warn drivers in poor visibility." The NHTSA has already reviewed several crashes involving Tesla's FSD system, and claims that the software occasionally "lost track of or never detected a lead vehicle in its path." How big of a deal is this inquiry? It's hard to know exactly what the impacts will be this early. But what we do know is that the investigation strikes at the heart of what's driving Tesla's valua...
Bovard: The Late Robert Mueller, Bill Of Rights Executioner Authored by Jim Bovard Obituaries on eminent Washingtonians usually omit the dreadful precedents they set that will vex Americans long after their death. Not this piece . Former FBI director Robert Mueller died last week at the age of 81. The New York Times eulogized him as a “button-down, lockjawed, rock-ribbed exemplar of a vanishing ca...
Bovard: The Late Robert Mueller, Bill Of Rights Executioner Authored by Jim Bovard Obituaries on eminent Washingtonians usually omit the dreadful precedents they set that will vex Americans long after their death. Not this piece . Former FBI director Robert Mueller died last week at the age of 81. The New York Times eulogized him as a “button-down, lockjawed, rock-ribbed exemplar of a vanishing caste.” In reality, Mueller was simply a twenty-first century version of J. Edgar Hoover, trampling the Constitution and seizing new power on any pretext . Mueller took over the FBI one week before the 9/11 attacks and he was worse than clueless afterwards. On September 14, 2011, Mueller declared, “The fact that there were a number of individuals that happened to have received training at flight schools here is news, quite obviously. If we had understood that to be the case, we would have—perhaps one could have averted this.” Three days later, Mueller announced, “There were no warning signs that I’m aware of that would indicate this type of operation in the country.” His protestations helped the W. Bush administration railroad the Patriot Act through Congress , vastly expanding the FBI’s prerogatives to vacuum up Americans’ personal information. Photo by Jim Bovard while covering the 2018 Women’s March in Washington. Deceit helped capture those intrusive new prerogatives. The Bush administration suppressed until the following May the news that FBI agents in Phoenix and Minneapolis had warned FBI headquarters of suspicious Arabs in flight training programs prior to 9/11. A House-Senate Joint Intelligence Committee analysis concluded that FBI incompetence and negligence “contributed to the United States becoming, in effect, a sanctuary for radical terrorists . ” FBI blundering spurred The Wall Street Journal to call for Mueller’s resignation , while a New York Times headline warned: “ Lawmakers Say Misstatements Cloud F.B.I. Chief’s Credibility .” But the FBI was off and runnin...
Torsten Asmus/iStock via Getty Images The Schwab Intermediate-Term U.S. Treasury ETF ( SCHR ) is a short- to intermediate-duration fixed-income Treasury ETF, so theoretically no credit considerations are needed here. Therefore, the focus is on the macro effects from the big delta of the energy crisis. The horizon of this ETF is one of the most affected by changes in YTMs in the US yield curve comp...
Torsten Asmus/iStock via Getty Images The Schwab Intermediate-Term U.S. Treasury ETF ( SCHR ) is a short- to intermediate-duration fixed-income Treasury ETF, so theoretically no credit considerations are needed here. Therefore, the focus is on the macro effects from the big delta of the energy crisis. The horizon of this ETF is one of the most affected by changes in YTMs in the US yield curve compared to before the war. US Yield Curve (World Government Bonds) The war in Iran is clearly inflationary. Some developed economy central banks have already raised rates. In the US, it is certain now that while this war goes on, or at least while the Strait of Hormuz and oil logistics are affected, rate cuts will not be proceeding, which is a considerable revision in expectations. The hope now of the markets rests on Trump's comments that hostilities might soon end, promising not to follow through with energy infrastructure attacks . However, the SCHR is also long enough in duration to be affected by structural considerations around rates, namely the inflationary effects of greater levels of global conflict. The mitigating factor is that maybe producers have less pricing power and ability to pass on the inflation to consumers this time, and also, at least for foreign investors, there are reasons to see this war as a useful vector for restoring the USD. The lack of credit risk is nice given the demand destruction threats associated with the consequences of a higher oil price, but other than that, there's not a great reason to take on the duration risk that makes intermediate Treasuries sensitive to uncertain yield curve dynamics. It's best to find robust equities whose underlying businesses can roll with the punches. SCHR Breakdown The duration of the SCHR is almost 5 years, and the expense ratio is 0.03% . Expense ratios don't get much lower than this. Somewhat similar duration Treasury bonds in these intermediate ranges get more expensive than that, like the ( IEI ) at 0.15%...
Daan Struyven, Co-Head of Global Commodities Research at Goldman Sachs, outlined the firm’s revised outlook for Brent crude, raising its forecast to an average of $85 per barrel this year, up from the previous estimate of $77. He noted that the disruption in the Strait of Hormuz represents the largest supply shock ever seen in the global crude market. He speaks with Shery Ahn and Haidi-Stroud Watt...
Daan Struyven, Co-Head of Global Commodities Research at Goldman Sachs, outlined the firm’s revised outlook for Brent crude, raising its forecast to an average of $85 per barrel this year, up from the previous estimate of $77. He noted that the disruption in the Strait of Hormuz represents the largest supply shock ever seen in the global crude market. He speaks with Shery Ahn and Haidi-Stroud Watts on "Bloomberg: The Asia Trade". (Source: Bloomberg)
Amazon.com (AMZN) is back in focus after fresh commentary around Amazon Web Services, where artificial intelligence workloads, long-term contracts with partners like OpenAI and Nvidia, and a sizable cloud backlog are reinforcing investor interest. Even with AWS and AI partnerships back in the headlines, Amazon’s recent share price performance has cooled, with a 90 day share price return of a 9.43%...
Amazon.com (AMZN) is back in focus after fresh commentary around Amazon Web Services, where artificial intelligence workloads, long-term contracts with partners like OpenAI and Nvidia, and a sizable cloud backlog are reinforcing investor interest. Even with AWS and AI partnerships back in the headlines, Amazon’s recent share price performance has cooled, with a 90 day share price return of a 9.43% decline and a year to date share price return of a 7.17% decline. However, the 3 year total shareholder return of about 114% shows that the longer term trend has still rewarded patient investors. If this AI story has you thinking beyond a single stock, it could be worth scanning other infrastructure plays through a dedicated list of With Amazon shares down over the past year but still up strongly over three years, investors are now weighing AWS’s AI contracts, a reported intrinsic discount of about 40% and analyst targets above the current price. The key question is whether there is a genuine opportunity here or whether future growth is already baked in. Advertisement Most Popular Narrative: 53.3% Undervalued Amazon’s most followed narrative sets a fair value of $450 per share versus the last close at $210.25. This frames a wide perceived upside that hinges on how its AI and cloud investments play out over time. Amazon is sacrificing short-term margins to secure long-duration dominance in AI infrastructure, advertising, and automated commerce. These investments are already working, and margins are positioned to inflect upward by the end of 2026. Curious what kind of revenue mix, margin profile, and profit trajectory could support almost doubling the current share price? The narrative leans heavily on future earnings power from AWS, high margin advertising, and more efficient retail at scale, with detailed assumptions behind each profit stream left for you to unpack. Result: Fair Value of $450 (UNDERVALUED) However, this depends on AI workloads ramping as expected and susta...