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EV stocks ended mixed in the week ending Jan. 7, with market leader Tesla, Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) giving back the strong gains notched in reaction to its stellar fourth-quarter deliveries. Stocks in the space also came under pressure along with the tech sector in the wake of hawkish commentary from the Federal Reserve this week.

Here are the key events that happened in the EV space during the week:

Tesla Achieves Record Q4 Deliveries, FSD Price Hike, Cathie Continues to Sell And More: Tesla, last Sunday, reported record deliveries of 308,600 vehicles in the fourth quarter, pushing annual deliveries to 936,172 units. The results outperformed expectations by a huge margin.

CEO Elon Musk announced through Twitter, Tesla’s full self-driving software will become more costly, rising to $12,000 beginning Jan. 17. He also said the monthly subscription price will go up when FSD is more widely released.

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The battle for consumers’ attention continues with traditional television and streaming platforms competing for the most minutes watched in 2022.

What Happened: IMDb, a movie and television show database owned by Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), shared the most anticipated new television series for 2022. The results are based on page views for the series from more than 200 million monthly visitors.

Here is a look at the 10 most anticipated new shows for 2022 and what it could mean for some publicly traded companies.

1. House of the Dragon: A “Game of Thrones” prequel called “House of the Dragon” ranks as the most searched 2022 new show on IMDB. The show’s first season of 10 episodes doesn’t have a release date but will air on HBO and HBO Max, which could boost the profile for parent company AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) in 2022. A teaser trailer released in October has

Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) developers have shrugged off a warning from analysts at JPMorgan that scaling up for the network may come too late to ward off competition from rival projects.

What Happened: Ethereum developer Tim Beiko called JPMorgan’s note on the second-largest coin’s sharding efforts as “lazy/very high level critique,” as per a Decrypt report.

Pointing to an in-place mechanism that allows transactions to be executed off-chain, Beiko said, “Rollups are live today, and sharding will lower their costs, but the tech works and is now massively derisked.”

The Graph (GRT) co-founder Tegan Kline said Ethereum was the most widely used chain on the Ethereum indexing protocol.

“Of the 26 networks that The Graph supports, 66.7% of the queries are on Ethereum” said Kline.

Kline pointed to chain security being important and said “for the foreseeable future Ethereum has the most security,” reported Decrypt.

See Also: How To Buy Ethereum

 

Helen Of Troy (NASDAQ:HELE) reported its Q3 earnings results on Thursday, January 6, 2022 at 06:45 AM.

Here’s what investors need to know about the announcement.

Earnings

Helen Of Troy beat estimated earnings by 19.61%, reporting an EPS of $3.72 versus an estimate of $3.11, which surprised analysts.

Revenue was up $12.85 million from the same period last year.

Past Earnings Performance

Last quarter the company beat on EPS by $0.48, which was followed by a 1.94% drop in the share price the next day.

Here’s a look at Helen Of Troy’s past performance:

 

Quarter	Q2 2022	Q1 2022	Q4 2021	Q3 2021
EPS Estimate	2.17	2.62	1.50	3.02
EPS Actual	2.65	3.48	1.57	3.76
Revenue Estimate	428.16M	438.90M	494.74M	551.85M
Revenue Actual	475.23M	541.22M	509.38M	637.74M

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