Notes You Need for November 22: Amazon Cloud, yield curve, Net Neutrality, TSLA, GE

In my daily trawling through the market I come upon lots of tidbits of knowledge that I think are important to investors but that don’t justify a full post. I’ve decided to start compiling these notes here each day in a kind of running mini blog that I’m calling Notes You Need. Posts in this mini-blog include items like this: 11:40 a.m.: “Bloomberg calculates that over the past 12 months, Tesla (TSLA) has burned cash at a rate of about $8,000 a minute (or $480,000 an hour.) At this pace, the company is on track to exhaust its current cash pile on Monday, August 6, 2018. Last week the company announced plans to require a $250,000 down payment from prospective buyers of its new Founders Series Roadster, even though the car is more than two years away. Reservations on its regular Roadster will cost $50,000. Companies can also pre-order electric Semi trucks for a $5,000 deposit with production scheduled to start in 2019. Despite these deposits Wall Street analysts project that Tesla will need to raise $2 billion by the middle of 2018.”