Jose Edgardo Cruz on LinkedIn: Musk sold a total of 41.5 million shares of Tesla stock between November 4… (2024)

American officials, citing intelligence information, have stated that Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas, is not hiding in the southern Gazan city of Rafah. According to these U.S. officials who spoke to the New York Times, Israeli intelligence agencies concur with the assessment that Sinwar and other high-ranking Hamas figures are not present in Rafah.

“Palestinian terrorist group Hamas has announced it has agreed to a proposed ceasefire and hostage deal with Israel proposed by Egypt and Qatar, according to a statement by the group on Monday evening.The announcement comes hours after the IDF had announced civilian evacuations in Rafah ahead of a planned offensive in southern Gaza."Hamas agrees to terms, and Israel refuses to stop the war. This is about Netanyahu, not about the hostages or the safety of the state of Israel. Bibi is a warmonger and must be held accountable.

The far-right leaders of the Otzma Yehudit and Religious Zionism parties — Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, respectively — both threatened on Saturday night to bring down the government if the newly proposed hostage release and ceasefire deal presented by Biden on Friday is adopted by the government. If both their parties bolt the coalition, that would leave Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu without a majority in the Knesset.But on Tuesday morning, Einav Zangauker, the activist mother of hostage Matan, said in an interview with Kol Israel radio that Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu, from Ben Gvir’s Otzma Yehudit, had confessed to her that the party’s vow to topple the government was an empty threat.It is believed that 120 hostages abducted by Hamas on October 7 remain in Gaza — not all of them alive — after 105 civilians were released from Hamas captivity during a weeklong truce in late November, and four hostages were released prior to that. Three hostages have been rescued by troops alive, and the bodies of 19 hostages have also been recovered, including three mistakenly killed by the military.

“Seffy Zinger, Chairman of the Israel Securities Authority, also raised alarms, noting, "Even before the war, there was a decline in foreign investments in Israel. The war has accelerated this trend. Foreign investors have withdrawn over 34 billion shekels from the Israeli stock market since the beginning of the war—8 billion from equities, 14 billion from government bonds, 6 billion from short-term loans, and 5 billion from corporate bonds. Israeli institutional investors have borne much of this burden."Netanyahu has been an unmitigated disaster for Israel.Oh, for the days of Golda Meir, or Yitzak Rabin or Shimon Peres or Menachem Begin or anyone but Bibi.

“Some of Tesla's institutional shareholders are getting out, convinced that the electric carmaker's days of dizzying growth are in the rear-view mirror.The company's shares are down nearly 30% this year and have fallen by more than 50% since their 2021 high, wiping out some $600 billion in market value as CEO Elon Musk has struggled with fierce competition and falling sales. Tesla's first-quarter results missed analyst expectations, though Musk said the company would release new models in 2025 that would be more affordable."It started to feel like the fundamentals were becoming detached from reality," said John Belton, a portfolio manager at Gabelli Funds whose firm sold its entire stake of 65,900 shares - acquired in early 2022 - in the first quarter of the year. “We think the stock works best when there are auto company fundamentals that justify the stock price.”Having a toxic CEO who priorities tweeting over managing doesn’t help either.

“Lisbon is, among nine European cities, the second most stressful to drive, according to a study by 'DiscoverCars' this Tuesday : drivers from Oslo, Milan, London, Budapest, Munich, Prague, Barcelona, Krakow and Lisbon.For the study, researchers measured the volunteers' heart rate while they took a 30-minute car journey through their city – the journey was also filmed with an on-board camera.”The Portuguese are kind and welcoming people, but put them behind the wheel of a car and they become aggressive tailgaters and speed demons who also seem to forget the car comes with turn signals.

“On Tesla’s first-quarter earnings call in April, Musk said the electric vehicle company will increase the number of active H100s — Nvidia’s flagship artificial intelligence chip — from 35,000 to 85,000 by the end of this year. He also wrote in a post on X a few days later that Tesla would spend $10 billion this year “in combined training and inference AI.”But emails written by Nvidia senior staff and widely shared inside the company suggest that Musk presented an exaggerated picture of Tesla’s procurement to shareholders. Correspondence from Nvidia staffers also indicates that Musk diverted a sizable shipment of AI processors that had been reserved for Tesla to his social media company X, formerly known as Twitter.Tesla shares slipped as much as 1% on the news Tuesday morning.”#SellTesla

The Ottoman government, driven by nationalism, racism and religious intolerance, aimed to eliminate its Christian minority populations. During World War I, Armenian Christians faced mass deportations, death marches and killings, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 1.5 million people. Similarly, the Assyrians and the Greeks, particularly in the Black Sea region, endured massacres, forced marches and expulsions, leading to hundreds of thousands of deaths.

Israel's media has been concealing the unbearable figures and pictures of the Gaza war. The latest announcement from the army about the Rafah strike should also be taken with skepticism. Unless you are a devoted consumer of Israeli media.