notes via user dcv:Futures looking cloudy today. No shades required. Crude down fractionally. Gold up a touch. Bitcoin nears the ,000 Mendoza Line. Looking above, I see that Bitcoin is listed at .102 which can't be right. I am guessing that the decimal point should be a comma. Target shows that it has things figured out. Nice Quarter and guidance. Stock is up 9% premarket. $TGT, Target Corporation / H1 Nikola says it has developed a new battery that has a record energy density of 1.1K watt-hours per kg on the material level and 500 watt-hours per kg on the production cell level. Nikola says it's in discussions with customers for truck orders that could fill production slots for more than ten years and propel Nikola to become the top truck manufacturer in the world by revenue. The buzz is building up for Tesla's truck event that is scheduled for tomorrow night in California. Pricing on the Tesla truck will be closely watched with EV startup Rivian setting a starting price of K. Details on towing capacity, power output, and off-road capabilities will also be crucially important as Tesla looks to compete with Ford's F-150 line and Ram trucks. Compete with the F-150 and Dodge Ram? Really? Other than artist renderings, where is the Tesla pickup truck? $TSLA, Tesla, Inc. / H1 In other Tesla news, Judge Stephen V. Wilson ordered Monday that a jury trial begin on Dec. 3. He denied Mr. Musk’s argument that the case should be tossed because his statement, a shortened version of the word pedophile, was a throwaway insult not to be construed as fact. Mr. Musk had also argued that Mr. Unsworth was a public figure because of his participation in a high-profile rescue of a youth soccer team trapped in a cave in Thailand last year. Public figures need to meet a high legal bar called “actual malice” — essentially knowing a statement is false when the statement is made and making it anyway — to prove defamation. A "throwaway insult?" Good luck at the trial. A fire was reported to have been caused by a Tesla Supercharger at a Wawa store in New Jersey last weekend, but a local fire official now says Tesla had nothing to do with the cause of the fire. Matthew Palmeiri, who works for Parsippany-Troy Hills Fire Department District 5, told Automotive News that Jersey Central Power & Light had a problem with a transformer next to the Tesla Supercharger. "No vehicles were involved; it wasn’t the charging stations at all. It was a separate onsite transformer that sends power from JCP&L to the charging stations… Nothing to do really with the charging stations." Let's see here. If the charging station was not there then the onsite transformer would not have been sending power to it and it would not have caught fire. Nothing to to do really with the charging station? A federal appeals court in New York found that General Motors won't be liable for punitive damages over accidents that occurred after its 2009 bankruptcy involving cars made before its bankruptcy. Got it, I think. $GM, General Motors Company / H1 A vegan customer is suing Burger King for cooking its plant-based patties on the same grills it uses for meat. Let that one sink in for a minute. Burger King did not comment, but the small print on its website says people wanting a meat-free option can request "a non-broiler method of preparation". Seems that customers can ask for the plant-based patty to be "cooked" in a microwave. No word on what happens if chicken nuggets are warmed in the same microwave. My team is working on this one. Altria added more than 4M shares to its Cronos stake, according to a filing. Todd Harrison notes the news may not be all that, but instead part of the topping-up provision in regards to the Lord Jones deal. With big-time short interest, it doesn't take a lot to make the stock pop higher. Cronos is ahead by 10%. Not sure who Todd Harrison is, link for this information goes to Twitter which is blocked on my computer. $MO, Altria Group, Inc. / H1 $CRON: $CRON, Cronos Group Inc. Common Share / H1 ...Altria is bag-holding Cronos and adding more to a losing position. Okay. Once weed is legal, Altria stock will soar. Dividend payouts will grow.Buy Target $TGT, up 9% after the ER. What a guidance raise. $TGT, Target Corporation / H1 Warning: 10-year just broke below 1.75. $IEFDaily analyst changes, source Dow Jones news wire Abraxas Petroleum Cut to Accumulate From Buy by Johnson Rice Allison Transmission Raised to Buy From Hold by Vertical Research American Software Cut to Neutral From Buy by B. Riley FBR AT&T Cut to Sell From Neutral by Moffett Nathanson Audentes Therapeutics Raised to Outperform From In-Line by Evercore ISI Group AvalonBay Raised to Outperform From In-Line by Evercore ISI Group Berry Petroleum Cut to Accumulate From Buy by Johnson Rice bluebird bio Cut to In-Line From Outperform by Evercore ISI Group Broadcom Raised to Overweight From Equal-Weight by Morgan Stanley Callon Petroleum Cut to Accumulate From Buy by Johnson Rice Clovis Oncology Cut to In-Line From Outperform by Evercore ISI Group EOG Resources Raised to Accumulate From Hold by Johnson Rice Golub Capital BDC Raised to Outperform From Market Perform by Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Helmerich & Payne Cut to Hold From Buy by Argus Research Leggett & Platt Cut to Hold From Buy by Stifel MaxLinear Raised to Buy From Hold by Needham MSG Networks Cut to Sell From Neutral by Guggenheim Oasis Petroleum Cut to Accumulate From Buy by Johnson Rice Okta Raised to Buy From Neutral by DA Davidson Public Storage Cut to Neutral From Buy by Bank of America Rockwell Automation Cut to Hold From Buy by HSBC SW Energy Cut to Hold From Accumulate by Johnson Rice Target Hospitality Cut to Perform From Outperform by Oppenheimer Ventas Raised to Buy From Hold by Argus Research