$NVIDIA (NVDA.US)$ When competing companies suddenly want to merge, regulators often block such deals. But regulators have recently become more stringent about vertical mergers that do not compete with each other. A recent example is the way the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) dealt with chipmaker Nvidia's controversial acquisition of mobile chip designer Arm Holdings.

$Apple (AAPL.US)$ Good stock!

$Apple (AAPL.US)$ A lot of people in this discussion board talking about regretting selling stocks. One maneuver I frequently make when I feel a stock is doing really well, but perhaps either becoming too large of a percentage for my portofolio -or- I feel the stock might be way over valued, I’ll just sell a portion of the stock I own (maybe 25%, 50%, 75%, etc.). Then, if the stock really takes off (again), I’ll still get a great return and I’ll avoid the fear of missing out. Alternatively, if it dumps, I won’t be losing nearly as much.
Not an uncommon strategy, but just wanted to remind some folks! I did this today with AAPL. I think I maybe sold like 10% of my shares.

$Tesla (TSLA.US)$ As the Russell 1000 index rallied 6.9% during the month, only 32% of large-cap active funds managed to outperform the benchmark, according to data from Bank of America. That’s the lowest beat rate in four months. The group lagged the benchmark by 0.66 percentage points on average, marking the weakest month since August 2020.
Part of the underperformance can be attributed to active funds’ general underweight in surging names like Tesla. Shares of the electric car maker returned 43.7% in October to surpass $1 trillion market cap, and now rank as the fourth-largest stock in the S&P 500 index behind $Microsoft (MSFT.US)$ , $Apple (AAPL.US)$ , and $Amazon (AMZN.US)$ . Tesla alone has lifted the index by roughly 1 percentage point last month.

On Monday, US stock market turnover champion Tesla rose 8.5%, setting a new record high, with a turnover of 65.27 billion U.S. dollars and a market value exceeding 1.2 trillion U.S. dollars. Amazon, the second largest in turnover, closed down 1.6%, with a turnover of 11.99 billion U.S. dollars. The third place Apple closed down 0.6%, with a turnover of 11.08 billion U.S. dollars.
$Tesla (TSLA.US)$ $Amazon (AMZN.US)$ $Apple (AAPL.US)$

$Apple (AAPL.US)$ In December, the purchasing manager's index surged to 155.

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New iPhone 13 models and new iPad, how is 2021 sales compared to 2020 sales? The fourth quarter earnings call will surely provide some insight!
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