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Old 11-09-2013, 01:37 AM   #15 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Christopher Jordan View Post
Ditto. This is a 'cut-and-paste' from the same SF newspaper business section -
"In three days, Tesla shareholders lost $4.7 billion, or nearly 22 percent of their investment. "
Fires in Seattle, Mexico, and Tenessee are going to be a small part of the companies problems.
I hate when the press talks about stocks as if market cap were actually a good indicator of value. Very few people paid 180 dollars a share for Tesla stock. Shareholders did not lose 4.7 billion, because someone has to be there to buy their stock before they can call that 22% their own.

During the crash in 08 they said nonsense like "trillions of dollars were erased". How can you erase the dollars if they didn't ever exist? [sigh]

Okay [/rant].
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