After going through 3 Knight Trader Boot Camps (KTBC), various feedbacks has been given and most of them has been good but one major feedback that kept on appearing is that it was too intensive. A lot insisted that live trading must be there and the one recently completed on weekdays on last Thursday even […]
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- Tesla faces delivery bottleneck at close of second-quarter: ElectrekShares of Tesla Inc fell 1.7% on Tuesday after news website Electrek reported that the electric-car maker has so far delivered 49,000 vehicles in North America during the second quarter, threatening its goal of a new record.
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- Apple buys self-driving car startup Drive.ai