Futures may be bright enough for shades today! I am ready. Crude up slightly. Gold down a touch. Bitcoin up fractionally. Still hanging around the $7,000 What Now? mark. Where, oh where, is President Xi to boost Bitcoin back up above the $8,000 Mendoza Line? Takata, the air bag supplier behind the largest auto recall ever, told U.S. safety regulators that another 1.4M vehicles need to be repaired over a defect linked to the death of a BMW driver and two other injuries in overseas markets. Simply amazing that this continues to be such a problem. Thank you for the Boeing and WeWork updates. The perfect start to my day. Elon Musk remains excommunicado. The Continental and the privileges associated with it are closed to him. Nothing on Tesla's CEO being in court over Twitter comments? I would think with the constant Tesla coverage on Seeking Alpha that this might make the breakfast table. Maybe tomorrow? Doubling down on its electric vehicle investment, General Motors is expected to announce a 50:50 joint venture today with South Korea's LG Chem to manufacture EV batteries in Ohio. A GM-LG plant may be the first unionized battery factory in the U.S. (Tesla's Gigafactory and LG Chem's battery factory in Michigan do not have unions). Interesting. The Nave Constellation, which can carry 2M barrels of oil, was hijacked by pirates off the coast of Nigeria, with 19 members of the crew kidnapped, vessel owner Navios confirms. Navios says the crew that was not kidnapped sailed the vessel to a safe location, and the tanker sustained no damage. Yikes. Reports out of Vienna suggest OPEC and its allies led by Russia are discussing increasing current cuts of 1.2M barrels per day by more than 400K bpd, as well as extending their agreement from March, to June or later. "(It's All Down to) Goodnight Vienna" comes to mind. Ringo Starr song written by John Lennon. I am still trying to get over the shock of Natural Gas "experts" call for colder weather this winter. Simply incredible. Who would have thought it would get colder in the winter months? A Phase 3 clinical trial, MOUNTAIN, evaluating Sage Therapeutics' GABA modulator SAGE-217 in adults with major depressive disorder (MDD) failed to achieve the primary endpoint. Shares down 53% premarket on light volume. Excited about the BoloWrap that was mentioned at breakfast yesterday. My son, a police officer, told me that he is excited about the technology but was not sure if his department would be getting the BoloWrap any time soon.