the market cap yes it's almost $600000000000.00 a $578000000000.00 there's tesla compared to toyota volkswagen dime learned g.m. b.m.w. honda and bird so as big as all of those combined they will be on monday the 6th largest company in the s. and p. $500.00 after amazon google ball and you know that sort of company right you know i mean i suppose you could think about tesla as an emerging play in the homelessness crisis because i can imagine folks basically living in their auto driven. having nothing else and then they are going to plug into the galactus e-mail as i've described it clicking ads to survive to get a few more electrical volts to power your tesla for another couple of miles so the in sexualization of humanity could be enabled by tesla and if you get a piece of all that gear there's $270.00 trillion dollars in debt in the world you know and there's that's all been printed that's like most all of that been printed in the last 10 years really so. this is worth 0 mostel what 3 quarters of a 6th ounce of a trillion dollars in the global cup with $270.00 trillion you know there's no rea

said apple's virtually unlimited resources make it an even greater competitor than the likes of toyota volkswagenthe most valuable company in the world could be an automaker, whether it be tesla, apple or volkswagen shares of tesla down 7% so far this week as it enters the s&p 500. mike, what do you think the ceo of volkswagen was intending with this post? do you think he was trying to be snapped up by apple, get on tim cook's radar >> i would doubt he would think that's realistic, because it probably isn't strikes me as somewhat realistic also in the sense that who knows, down the road if you do have dominant providers, dominant manufacturers with massive access to extremely cheap capital, then the auto sector is one that, in theory, could become much bigger in equity market cap than it it used to be gm used to be the biggest stock in the world it's not that crazy. we don't know apple's intentions here but they borrow at government-like yields there's $100 billion or so in net cash on the balance sheet or any given moment yes, they can muscle their way it doesn't mean they can own the industry s

tesla's market cap of 578000000000 is now about 'd equal to the combined market cap of toyota toyota and lexus volkswagen which is v v.w. audi porsche and many other brands dine large g.m. b.m.w. honda and ford which is an amazing sight and they know that he's raised about close to $15000000000.00 just the fast few months so he's he's quitting and that does protect him from the short sellers because at that time last year when he was confronting the short sellers like they were short of cash they were running out of cash in terms of keeping their enterprise going but now they have they have enough for for quite a while they've got cash plus the thing that really hurts short sellers would be to introduce a dividend my introduce a dividend that's a way to fight the short sellers because the short sellers have to pay that so that's one way to fight shorts. so he's got a lot of cash he could pay dividends now i want to quickly move at the end here to this other story because you mentioned joe rogan podcast and this is something for everybody in the audience to watch because you know you've been able to watch

months of 2021 it would create the world's 4th largest automobile group behind volkswagen renault nissan mitsubishi and toyota. over to germany the harts mountains in the country may not be well known outside of germany but their popular destination for german hikers cyclists around this time of year skiers but not this year many businesses in the area are now low on cash and wondering when they'll be able to accept visitors again. it says if the weather knew about the lock down far and wide no sign of real snow on them bad mountain normally resort owners would fall back on their snow can and now the snow can in ski lift in the new slopes cost this resort $12000000.00 euros last year but this year general manager fabio only goes up his slope 2000 meters once a week to check things out at the foot of the mountain there's plenty of time for repairs this year in normal times his staff would be busy around the clock now there's only enough work for 2 of the company's 30 employees the others are working short time. when we talk to you know at the moment we're not doing very well at all it's actually it's very bad

that means volkswagen and others, toyota coming up slowly behind them but they are a huge car maker withe resources. jim, you entered perfectly. we are out of time. thank you for your company and have a lovely day. hello. tuesday will be one of the quieter weather days of the week. there'll still be some showers around, but fewer than we had on monday. still windy, though not as windy as it was on monday. low pressure still close by, this brisk south—westerly flow with sunshine and showers. here comes the next area of low pressure for wednesday, which will not be one of the quieter weather days of the week, as we'll see. but this is how tuesday's starting, a little bit cooler than monday morning, many of us dry with some early sunshine. showers, though, mostly in the west initially and still some heavy ones. the sun will push further east during the day on the breeze but be very hit—and—miss across eastern areas. and whilst for many of us, the showers will fade as the afternoon goes on, still this area here that has to push north across scotland as we go through the evening. temperatures

of partnering with an existing car maker, that's where tesla would come into play or toyota or a b.m.w. or volkswagenh it basically kim out of the version of their car with an apple twist. an applesoftware driving system. there's different directions apple can take this project and then there's the other approach where they can simply make their self-driving system and apply it to an existing car maker. right? there's four or five or even more directions apple can take this project and the expect route that they take is not entirely clear at this point. but apple has traditionally went the route where they design and develop everything. they partner with a manufacturing partner to produce it. vonnie: it certainly piced elon musk's interest, -- -- piqued elon musk's interest. he responded to somebody in a chatter about batteries and then his second tweet was that during the darkest days of the model three program, i reached out to tim cook to discuss the possibility of apple acquiring tesla, he refused to take the meeting. so on the one hand, it says just that. that there was an effort on the part of

read this several times, they're the fourth largest i automaker in the world behind tesla, toyota and volkswagenore in market cap than general motors. shares up more than 2,000% in the past 52 weeks. goldman sachs is rewarding them and upgrading them to neutral. is so nu e o, the chinese electric car company, once doomed the tesla killer, is really rallying recently. stuart: it's the fourth largest car company in the world, and i can't remember seeing a nio car. fascinating. lauren, thank you. >> there aren't many of them. >> only sold in china. >> that's why. stuart: i haven't seen a picture of one. >> you haven't? stuart: i should, i could look it up. >> yes, exactly. stuart: let's talk tesla. it's up 4.8%. they're going to be -- here's the story. they're going to be added, tesla, all at once to the s&p. what does all at once mean? >> it means the stock rallying this morning. all at once means that index bonds that mirror the makeup of the s&p 500 now have to buy tesla stock in just one go instead of two different times, and there was talk that it would be phased in over two different dates in