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China is poised to impose stricter export controls on “dual-use” materials essential to defense and tech manufacturing, in what one U.S. lawmaker has called a “wake-up call.”

Raw materials subject to the controls include tungsten, magnesium, titanium, and aluminum alloys and graphite—materials whose production and supply is dominated by China and that are critical to sectors spanning tech,

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Tesla Inc. Chair Robyn Denholm cashed in from a well-timed sale of shares this month, reaping more than $35 million from stock that soared after the U.S. election.

Denholm exercised 112,390 stock options that were set to expire next year and sold the shares on Friday, according to a regulatory filing.

 » Read more about: Tesla chair scored big on well-timed sell during stock’s post-election blip  »

Billionaire investor Ken Griffin has been known for making some rather eccentric purchases.

Back in 2021, Griffin paid a cool $43 million for a first-edition copy of the U.S. Constitution — outbidding a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) of crypto enthusiasts in the process. More recently, Griffin shelled out $45 million for a stegosaurus fossil.

 » Read more about: Billionaire Ken Griffin Increased His Position in Tesla Stock By 395%. Should You Buy Tesla During Its Post-Election Surge?  »

• Elon Musk reignited his long-running feud with Jeff Bezos in an X post on Thursday.
• Musk said Bezos told people they should sell their Tesla and SpaceX stock because Donald Trump would lose.
• Bezos said Musk’s claim was “100% not true.”

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You don’t need to look any further than the mercurial CEO of Tesla, Elon Musk, to prove the maxim that “the rich get richer.” The world’s second-richest individual has seen his wealth grow by a whopping $70 billion in just a week since Donald Trump was re-elected to the presidency,

 » Read more about: Tesla’s Stock Boom: Should You Ride the Wave After the Trump Election Bump?  »

Jeff Bezos pushed back on Elon Musk’s claim that the Amazon founder predicted a Trump loss in the 2024 election and that shareholders should sell their Tesla and SpaceX stock.

Musk, CEO of those companies, posted early this morning that he “just learned tonight at Mar-a-Lago that Jeff Bezos was telling everyone that Donald Trump would lose for sure,

 » Read more about: “100% Not True”: Jeff Bezos Responds To Elon Musk’s Gossipy Claim That He Predicted Trump Loss And Urged Sale Of Tesla And SpaceX Stock  »

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Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest is inviting retail investors to bet on Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s private startups and possibly profit from his newfound closeness to President-elect Donald Trump in the process.

Through its ARK Venture Fund, the firm is giving retail investors the chance to invest in companies that aren’t listed on public markets,

 » Read more about: Ark’s Cathie Wood lets retail investors bet on Elon Musk’s private startups and potentially profit from his proximity to Trump  »

Schwab Asset Management CEO and CIO Omar Aguilar joins Yahoo Finance’s Rachelle Akuffo and Robert Powell to discuss how emotions drive investing at Impact.

“Animal spirits tend to be one of the typical behavioral biases that people have when they see things going in a certain way,”

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The recommendations of Wall Street analysts are often relied on by investors when deciding whether to buy, sell, or hold a stock. Media reports about these brokerage-firm-employed (or sell-side) analysts changing their ratings often affect a stock’s price. Do they really matter, though?

Before we discuss the reliability of brokerage recommendations and how to use them to your advantage,

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