Futures up slightly this morning. No need for shades, but they are always on hand just in case. Crude down over 1% while Gold is up slightly much to the delight of King Midas. Bitcoin checks in down fractionally and holds above the $9,000 Almost All-Important mark. Seems like a typical start to the day. Elon Musk is excommunicado. Tesla jumps on Quarterly results the way only Tesla can. $TSLA is up 11% premarket on results that probably don't merit an 11% gain but this is Tesla and the rules do not apply. It is all about stock price. Valuation and fundamentals have been out the shattered window for some time with this stock. Mr. Market seems to treat $TSLA with a different set of rules and it is really amazing. Automotive revenue grew 1% YoY and Total revenue grew 2% YoY. Not exactly a growth stock, but it is what it is. The stock price continues to climb! No timeline or production date given by Mr. Musk for the Cyberturck. He did say that the Cybertruck was like something from a "sci-fi movie set." About production? Nothing. UPS has placed an order for 10,000 electric vans (with an option for 10,000 more) from U.K.-based Arrival. The contract, worth "hundreds of millions of euros," will also see UPS take a minority stake in the startup. Long $UPS and this gives more exposure to the EV revolution! $TSLA via Fidelity Contrafund, Rivian via $F shares, and $NIO. Who said that this old dog doesn't embrace the future? California Gov. Newsom reiterates his threat of a state takeover of PG&E if a deal cannot be reached between the two sides within the next few weeks. Just what the taxpayers of California need! What happened to Berkshire Hathaway coming to save the day? Boeing in the green despite its first annual loss in over two decades. Boeing news is brought to you by Boeing, of course. The California Institute of Technology has won a $1.1B jury verdict in a patent case against Apple and Broadcom, though the two tech firms intend to appeal the verdict. CalTech alleges that Broadcom wi-fi chips used in hundreds of millions of Apple iPhones infringed patents relating to data transmission technology. Nice that they were able to find folks to serve on the jury who could understand this rather complicated case. No updates on the DirecTV satellite that was said to be exploding at some point. Guess it hasn't blown up yet. It has been a few weeks since we cut our cable and moved to YouTube TV, along with Disney + and Amazon Prime. Nobody has missed cable in our house. Lots of sports available on YouTubeTV and we are able to include one of our sons in our family group. He is away at college but is able to enjoy our subscription. Pretty neat. notes via user DCV This option call on $TSLA will pay off for this investor below. This call is worth $1.4 billion if AH 12% gain holds: Virus impact on stocks update: IKEA shuts down all its China stores$SBUX closes more then half its locations there$GOOG Google out of China, HK and Taiwan$AAPL Apple closes stores in 3 cities, limiting hrs in othersSomething/s they not telling, beginning to think.