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Tesla breaks record, but did it break even?

Tesla Inc.’s quarterly deliveries announcements are not what they were, mainly because they’re so brief these days. Wednesday evening’s still managed to spark a 4% sell-off in immediate after-hours trading. On one level, that barely counts given this stock’s volatility. On the other, there were a couple of nuggets in the release that warrant watching. Most obviously, Tesla didn’t quite ...

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How hedge funds are really playing Brexit

Philip Hammond is officially “outside the tent,” to use Lyndon Johnson’s phrase. After losing his job as UK Chancellor of the Exchequer and then his badge as a Conservative MP by rebelling against Boris Johnson’s hardball Brexit strategy, Hammond has kicked up an almighty stink by accusing Johnson of being in thrall to wealthy financial “speculators” who would actively profit ...

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How to put India’s shadow banks on firmer ground

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When a well-capitalized shadow bank’s credit rating goes from A+ to D in 10 days, it shows how fragile lending to India’s builders has become. It also highlights the policy error of not addressing the root of the problem: land. In June, three months before the unexpected default by Altico Capital India Ltd., I proposed a land bank that would ...

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