Hacker News with Generative AI: Stock Market

Coinbase becomes first crypto exchange to join the S&P 500 (latimes.com)
Coinbase on Monday became the first cryptocurrency exchange to join the Standard & Poor’s 500 index, marking a pivotal moment for the digital assets industry.
Tesla Chair Sells $198M Worth of Stock in Just Six Months (techoreon.com)
WASHINGTON, May 13 — Tesla’s chairwoman, Robyn Denholm, sold $198 million worth of the company’s shares over the past six months, even as CEO Elon Musk urged shareholders not to part with their stock, The New York Times reported Tuesday.
CrowdStrike CEO cuts his voting power by 92% with unexplained gifts (bloomberg.com)
CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. Chief Executive Officer George Kurtz disclosed last month that he’d gifted over $1 billion worth of his company’s stock to undisclosed recipients, sharply reducing his influence over the company in an unusual move for a tech founder.
Alphabet's share price plunges on traffic drop testimony (yahoo.com)
Shares in Google parent Alphabet plunged more than seven percent on Wednesday after an Apple executive told a federal court that the search engine's traffic fell on Apple products last month.
Google stock sinks on report Apple plans to integrate AI search into browser (yahoo.com)
Google (GOOG, GOOGL) stock dropped more than 6% on Wednesday after Apple's senior vice president of services, Eddy Cue, revealed that Apple (AAPL) is exploring adding AI search engines such as Perplexity to its default Safari web browser.
Bezos discloses plan to sell up to $4.8B in Amazon stock (cnbc.com)
Tesla (TSLA) stock surges on Elon's lies despite disastrous earnings (electrek.co)
Tesla’s stock (TSLA) surged by as much as 8% today following the company reporting disastrous earnings results – its worst in years and way below expectations.
Ask HN: Cant Americans see Trumps policies are a massive stock manipulation scam (ycombinator.com)
It is pretty obvious, so why can't/won't the whole media and corporate establishment acknowledge it?
Apple was getting bid up like crazy yesterday, don't tell me this wasn't leaked (twitter.com)
Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.
China state firms vow to boost share purchases to stabilize plunging market (thestandard.com.hk)
Several Chinese state holding companies on Tuesday vowed to increase share investment as Beijing steps up efforts to stabilize a plunging stock market on US tariff woes.
Tesla's Plummeting Stock Just Hit a Level That Lutnick Said Would 'Never' Happen (thedailybeast.com)
Tesla’s stock has plummeted to a new low only three weeks after Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick advised Americans to buy it because “it’ll never be this cheap again.”
2025 Stock Market Crash (wikipedia.org)
Beginning on April 2, 2025, global stock markets began to experience significant economic downturn, as a result of tariffs and trade wars initiated by president of the United States, Donald Trump.
Dow plunges 2,200 points, Nasdaq enters bear market (yahoo.com)
US stocks cratered on Friday with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) plunging more than 2,200 points after China stoked trade-war fears and Fed Chair Jerome Powell warned of higher inflation and slower growth stemming from tariffs.
Dow drops 1,500 points, S&P 500 loses 4% as stock market rout on tariffs worsens (cnbc.com)
Tesla (TSLA) announces 336,681 deliveries, far worse than expected (electrek.co)
Tesla (TSLA) has released its Q1 2025 production and delivery numbers. The automaker confirmed it delivered 336,681 electric vehicles during the first three months of the year — far below expectations.
Things Are Bad at Tesla. They're About to Get Much Worse (forbes.com)
Tesla is in a world of hurt. Sales in California, its main market in the U.S., plummeted 31% in January from a year ago. European numbers are even worse, dropping 43% in the year’s first two months. And in China, by far its most important market for profitability, Tesla sales crashed 29% through February. Its stock has tanked, dropping 34% this year.
Elon tells Tesla employees not to sell TSLA stock as board and execs are dumping (electrek.co)
At an all-hands meeting last night, Elon Musk stood before Tesla employees and told them to “hang on to their TSLA stocks” as Tesla board members and top executive are dumping their shares amid a 40% crash.
Tesla (TSLA) accounting raises red flags as report shows $1.4B missing (electrek.co)
Tesla’s (TSLA) accounting practices are raising red flags as a new report from the Financial Times shows that $1.4 billion is missing.
Tesla Stock Slumps as Chinese Rival Says Its Cars Can Charge in Just Five Minute (investopedia.com)
Tesla (TSLA) shares dropped Tuesday as Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD unveiled an ultra-fast charger it claims can deliver a full charge in as little as five minutes.
Tesla registrations – and public opinion – are in a free fall (theverge.com)
As Elon Musk takes a chainsaw to the federal government, Tesla’s stock has been plummeting. New data shows the company’s problems don’t end there.
Tesla crashes; stock falls over 50% since Elon joined Trump administration [video] (youtube.com)
What's gone wrong at Musk's Tesla? Share price has plunged, could fall further (news.sky.com)
Tesla saw its shares peak in December, but since then more than $800bn has been wiped from its stock market value with suggestions of further falls.
Ask HN: What is the actual cost basis of the stock market? (ycombinator.com)
Does anyone know what is the actual cost basis for the entire US stock market.
Tesla shares plunge 14%, head for worst day in five years (cnbc.com)
What We've Learned from 150 Years of Stock Market Crashes (morningstar.com)
Though they varied in length and severity, the market always recovered and went on to new highs.
Wall Street sell-off turns 'ugly' as US recession fears grow (independent.co.uk)
A sell-off across US markets has continued as investor sentiment soured amid growing fears that the world’s largest economy is facing a recession.
$1.57T wiped off value of the Magnificent Seven so far this year (theguardian.com)
Wall Street suffers ‘ugly’ sell-off amid US recession fears, as Musk’s Tesla falls 50% from all–time high – business live
Nvidia shares fall 9% or $265B off on tariff fears (cnbc.com)
Options traders are bracing for a stock-market crash (marketwatch.com)
Options traders are bracing for a looming stock-market crash, the latest data from Cboe Global Markets show.
'Tesla just wrapped up its second-worst month' (yahoo.com)
Tesla (TSLA) stock rose sharply on the last day of February, but it wasn’t enough to stem losses of nearly 28% for the month.