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Krugerrand
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Well, I know which side my toast is butteredDepends on which side you're on.
racer26
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Pretty sure the joint product unveiling on the 28th of October is going to erase any question marks about why the merger is a no brainer. I expect the arbitrage gap to close on 10/31.
larmor
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And they tried really hard prior to ipod/iphone there was the newton... The writing was on the wall, no one wanted to read the writing...Original iphone. iPod.
Never mind, those didn't do much for Apple stock....
racer26
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Ok, I can think of some examples: Color TV (took a while, but once it was cost competitive (ca. 1970s) with B&W, completely took over), Similarly flat-panel TVs and computer monitors (took over and ushered in the end of the CRT fairly quickly). Digital cameras obliterated film cameras in very short order once the technology got acceptably good on the quality spectrum. When was the last time you saw a photo developing shop? I'm not even sure I'd know where to take a roll of film to get it developed today - 20 years ago I could have walked into any major grocery store.
Original iphone. iPod.
Never mind, those didn't do much for Apple stock....
Yeah, I guess, though I would really say the technology is smartphones as a whole.
I believe the Model 3 represents the inflection point of EV technology, where it becomes both good enough, and cheap enough for it to achieve that kind of total market domination. What's weird this time is the total lack of competitors driving the market with Tesla. All those other technologies had more than one company pushing the newer, better technology.
Anyone knows how the voting works if you have your shares at a brokerage "online". I suppose most people don`t own physical documents anymore... do we just get a notification/email form the brokerage and get the directions there? Tesla talks about a "proxy card", but I don`t think we`ll actually receive that via (e)mail, right?
Before you need to worry about selling the news, there has to be a run-up on the rumor. So far zilch, so no worries.
I like the penalty box analogy. Good news isn't having much effect, but eventually something has to give. Also, all the recent news could be sort of considered more sizzle/promises. Even the delivery numbers only matter in the sense of predicting something good later (good financials, meeting delivery guidance for the year). So the steak is coming soon hopefully and will get us out of the penalty box.
I've been able to go onto my Fidelity account and vote for things.
FredTMC
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If that happens, we need the stock to climb for 6 years before we sell, so we don't get nailed by her crazy capital gains tax plan!
View attachment 198330
Blue line is current tax rate. Red line is Clinton tax plan for capital gains.
Hopefully doesn't go anywhere in congress. Not a fan of new taxes on LT cap gains.
"Tesla and SolarCity will unveil a solar roof product, which along with Powerwall 2.0, will show the kinds of products that the combined company will be able to create. And on November 1st, Tesla will provide additional financial information relating to its plans for the combined company."
My shares are in a non-margin brokerage account with Fidelity. Past experience with other companies' shares I have had was to receive an actual proxy vote card, but the past year or so almost all have been online votes via email. In the past if I ignored it I would get repeat mailing/emails and on one occasion a phone call begging me to vote my shares. Before the emails directed me to sign on to a web site (I seem to recall proxyvote.com) to perform the actual voting, though now it is all done through my fidelity online account web page.
Chickenlittle
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racer26
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Both record dates are Sept 23, 2016, and that's been known since about Sept 26.
I never saw the SolarCity date published, just the Tesla date.
Update on Tesla's Combination with Solar City: "Over the next few weeks, Tesla will share important updates regarding our strategic plan for the combined company."
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