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Jan 4, 2023
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Tesla Inc extended its recent discount of $1,400 in China till the end of February. Despite the recent sales weakness, Tesla unit sales in China are up 22% in the first 11 months to November.
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Salesforce said it plans to take as much as $2 billion in restructuring charges and trim about 10% of its 79,000 strong workforce as business conditions remain challenging.
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Mortgage application in the final week of 2022 dropped 13% from the previous two weeks and fell to the lowest level since 1996 amid rising mortgage rate and elevated home prices.
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Crude oil prices dropped 4% and fell near one-year low of $70.30 a gallon as demand growth worries grip market sentiment.
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Lumber prices traded near the low last seen in June 2020 as home builder's sentiment remained weak and mortgage rates jumped to 6.58% from 3.3% a year ago.
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Fed policymakers supported future rate hikes and said restrictive policy stance needs to be maintained until inflation is on a sustained downward path, minutes from December meeting showed.
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The U.S. House failed to elect a new speaker after Kevin McCarthy lost the sixth vote in a row following a rebellion by far-right members of the Republican Party.
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Four-decade high inflation, ongoing war in Ukraine and unresolved energy crisis sapped market sentiment in Europe in 2022 and indexes posted the worst losses in four years between 10% and 17%.
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The Sensex index increased 4% and advanced for the seventh year in a row and posted its smallest gain since 2016 when the index gained 1.95%.
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The Nikkei index posted its first annual loss in four years and closed down 11% in 2022.
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