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• Tesla just had the worst year in its history, but now it's starting to look like the best tech company in the world (TSLA)

  17-11-2018 14:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  Tesla is a hybrid of tech company and car company — and with various scandals roiling the tech sector, Tesla seems like a tech company that's at least trying to do good.
  Tesla endured its own self-manufactured travails over the summer.
  But with companies such as Facebook coming under fire, Tesla can pitch a better story about its mission.
  Tesla likes to think of itself as a disruptive, Silicon Valley technology company. That's far from accurate. Despite over-the-air software updates to its
  
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• Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg isn't accountable to anyone, so it's time Congress took away the source of his power (FB)

  17-11-2018 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Facebook's string of scandals over the last several years have highlighted the poor job Mark Zuckerberg has done running the company — and his lack of accountability.
  The social networking giant's stock structure gives Zuckerberg near-absolute control over it, because the shares he holds get far more votes than those held by ordinary investors.
  Facebook is one of a growing number of companies that have such structures, which help to insulate insiders from outside investors and the public a
  
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• The odds of a second referendum on Brexit just rose sharply

  17-11-2018 12:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  The odds of Britain holding a second referendum just went sharply up and are now a near coin-toss, according to HSBC.
  But Prime Minister Theresa May probably does have the majority she needs to get her deal through parliament, economist Elizabeth Martins believes.
  We looked at the wafer-thin numbers.The odds of Britain holding a second referendum just went sharply up and are now above 40% — a near coin-toss — according to HSBC economist Elizabeth Martins.
  Prime Minister Theresa May u
  
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• The stock market looks like it’s past the point of no return — and not even the Fed can save it from the next crash

  17-11-2018 12:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Rising interest rates have been a significant catalyst of the corrections in equities this year. 
  According to one Wall Street strategist, they've moved past a threshold that was exceeded before the equity bear markets in 2000 and 2008.
  He says this implies that even if the Federal Reserve stops raising rates, it may be too late for equity investors. An issue that's top of many investors' minds right now is what happens to interest rates next year. 
  Fears that higher rates will ma
  
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• Brexit is now such a headache that the UK is 'uninvestable,' according to one of Wall Street's best respected research houses

  17-11-2018 09:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  Analysts at Bernstein, one of the best-respected research houses on Wall Street, believe that the UK's Brexit future is so unclear that the country is currently "uninvestable."
  "With UK politics in the midst of Brexit turmoil what are investors meant to do?" — Bernstein's Inigo Fraser-Jenkins and his team asked in a note to clients.
  The note comes after a chaotic four days of developments in Brexit, which has left a no deal outcome on the table and Prime Minister Theresa May teetering on t
  
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• Low morale, staff firings, and new pricing plans coming: Inside the walls of MoviePass (HMNY)

  17-11-2018 07:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  MoviePass fired three staff members on Friday, including two who made up the entirety of its human resources staff, a source at the company told Business Insider.
  MoviePass CEO Mitch Lowe has not been on all-hands calls in two months, according to the source, who believes this is a sign of his lack of involvement in the day-to-day operations of the business.
  "Mitch has been and continues to be involved in the day-to-day operations of the company," MoviePass told Business Insider in a statement.&
  
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