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Tesla Motors, Inc. (TSLA) Stock - NasdaqGS
Tesla Motors, Inc. (Tesla) designs, develops, manufactures and sells electric vehicles and advanced electric vehicle powertrain components. Tesla owns its sales and service network. The Company is engaged in commercially producing a federally-compliant electric vehicle, the Tesla Roadster. addition to developing its Model S and future vehicle manufacturing capabilities at the Tesla Factory, the Company is designing, developing and manufacturing lithium-ion battery packs, electric motors, gearboxes and components both for its vehicles and for its original equipment manufacturer customers. These activities occur at its electric powertrain manufacturing facility in Palo Alto, California and at the Tesla Factory. The Company provides services for the development of electric powertrain components and sells electric powertrain components to other automotive manufacturers.
Ashton Kutcher owns one of the more than 13,000 Tesla Model S electric sedans on the road in North America, and he's quite pleased about it.
After ditching his Lexus hybrid, Kutcher liked his new ride so much that he bought stock in Tesla.
Kutcher has gotten into investing of late, putting about $100 million into companies including Airbnb, Spotify and Foursquare.
"EVs get held to a higher standard," he told ClimateWire.
Miller Tabak’s Andrew Wilkinson offers another reason: Fed tapering fears. He writes:
Some of the poor tone ahead of the start to US trading may be as a result of ongoing taper talk surrounding the Fed’s intentions. With the August non-farm payroll reading due September 6, there remains a sense that two weeks later could still deliver the first announced reduction in the volume of monthly bond purchases. Still, even if that happens it should be taken as an ultimate sign of recovering economic health and not as a detractor from the US economy.
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Bank Of America Sold $850M In 'Toxic Waste' Mortgage Securities
The SEC and Department of Justice filed a civil suit today against BofA claiming the bank defrauded investors when it sold mortgage securities backed by more than $855 million in residential mortgages.
Bank of America entities in 2008 sold the RMBS (residential mortgage backed securities) and told investors they were backed by high quality, prime mortgage loans. The suit says an “unprecedented portion” of the mortgage loans had been originated through mortgage brokers unaffiliated with the Bank of America Entities through a so-called wholesale channel.
By the time BofA was selling the securities in 2008 the wholesale loans were being dubbed by then CEO Ken Lewis as “toxic waste,” according to the DoJ suit.
Bank of America disagrees with the suit’s assessment of the quality of the loans. The SEC is also considering charges related to charges against Merrill Lynch arising from its CDO investigation.
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New Trend In Finance With Credit Friend
The most recent financial crisis, caused by low-quality sub-prime loans, has left people with no income, no jobs and no assets. Microfinance founder and founding member of Ashoka’s Global Academy Muhammad Yunus has strongly protested against the way microfinance has evolved—many microfinance institutions have become the same money sharks that Yunus initially sought to put out of business.
People are tired of paying high interest rates for credit cards, banks and payday loans. They’re tired of being classified with credit scores that do not necessarily represent their real credit capacity.
Enter Puddle
Puddle gives everyday people the opportunity to own a small virtual “bank” with their friends—no fees and no applications. Users decide on interest rates, who can be members, and who can borrow money. The best part: profits made from the interest rates paid by borrowers are distributed among group members.
Puddle is a response from three of social entrepreneurs that have challenged traditional microfinance and suspect lending practices for more than a decade: Ashoka Fellows Solomon Raydán, Jean Claude Rodriguez-Ferrera and Matt Flannery (Kiva co-founder and CEO).
Raydán, Rodriguez-Ferrera and Flannery are supporting the “self-financed movement,” inspired by ancient lending practices generically known as Rotating Savings and Credit Associations (ROSCAS). Community groups around the world, though very poor, have proven their capacity to organize and sustain their own savings and credit system without having to go through the formal banking system.
Puddle is bringing simplicity, convenience and transparency to a financial model that needs to be changed. It is not intended to replace formal banking. Puddle launched late last year and is expanding rapidly.
In Europe, much of the move offshore has been backed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EDRD). The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has a billion dollars invested in the wind sector, Sawyer said.
And the InterAmerican Development Bank has invested heavily in Central and South America, he added, especially in some of the smaller markets like Uruguay, Peru, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras and Panama.
“South Africa should be a big market,” Sawyer said. “It is a growing economy. They need the power. They need the jobs. And they want the investments.” The initial auction rounds account for about 3.5 gigawatts, and “if the industry starts to move, they will end up with a lot more than 10 gigawatts because they really need the power and they are actively encouraging investment from any and all quarters.”
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Is Investment Management
For most people who invest through 401k accounts at work, investment management takes the form of mutual funds. Behind any active mutual fund there is a lead investment manager and, often, a team of support managers. They pick the stocks or bonds that make up the fund.
Balancing risk
Since the combination of funds is crucial, many 401k plans try to offer their members a “set it and forget it” option for investment management, often in the form of target-date funds or pre-cut portfolios. In the latter, the measure of stock vs. bond funds is designed to match your age and ability to accept risk.
The idea is to completely automate the investment management process.
Each underlying investment fund has its own fees, in order to pay the managers doing the trading. Target-date funds have costs, too. Fund fees cost you real money, and that affects your performance dramatically over time.
Pension plan ideal
The ideal investment management plan would combine very low costs with an appropriate portfolio mix for the age and time horizon of each investor. Increasingly, the major brokerages offer exchange-traded funds (ETFs) with minimal fees and, often, no commission charges. If you don’t have access to a pension manager but do have the ability to pick your own investments, then the challenge is building that mix of investment types yourself while keeping costs low.
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