The Week in Numbers: Trump eyes Venezuela oil, Tesla loses EV crown

<span>STORY: From Trump’s Venezuela oil claims, to Tesla losing its EV crown..</span><span>This is the Week in Numbers.</span><span>:: Week in Numbers</span><span>:: $2 billion</span><span>Up to $2 billion worth of Venezuelan crude could be sent to U.S. ports.</span><span>That was the deal reached between Washington and Caracas according to President Donald Trump.</span><span>He said up to 50 million barrels of sanctioned Venezuelan oil could be turned over to the U.S. and sold at market prices.</span><span>The move came after U.S. forces captured Venezuela’s president Nicolas Maduro during a weekend raid.</span><span>:: 8%</span><span>Over 8% was the drop in full year sales for Tesla.</span><span>It saw Elon Musk’s firm lose its title as the top electric vehicle seller last year.</span><span>China’s BYD zoomed passed Tesla into the number one spot.</span><span>Tesla has faced growing competition, the end of U.S. tax credits and blowback against Musk’s political moves.</span><span>:: 15%</span><span>Almost 15% was the jump in Hyundai’s share price.</span><span>Investors bought in on market speculation the South Korean automaker could form closer ties with Nvidia.</span><span>Hyundai chair Euisin Chung and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang spoke at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.</span><span>Hyundai’s Boston Dynamics also caused buzz at the event when it debuted its humanoid robot Atlas.</span><span>The carmaker has announced plans to deploy the robots in its factories in a few years.</span><span>: $13.8 billion</span><span>$13.8 billion was Samsung’s projected operating profit for the October to December quarter.</span><span>That was well beyond analyst estimates for the world’s largest memory chipmaker.</span><span>It would mark a three-fold jump in profit from a year earlier.</span><span>Samsung scored big as chip prices rocketed on huge demand largely driven by AI.</span><span>:: $4.1 billion</span><span>And just over $4.1 billion was the new yearly operating profit target for fashion giant Fast Retailing.</span><span>The Uniqlo owner raised it from a previous $3.8 billion.</span><span>The Japanese firm also reported its latest profit easily beat analyst expectations.</span><span>It surged by a third during the September to November period to $1.3 billion – with revenue up 15%.</span>


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