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Vicki Bryan

Vicki Bryan founded Bond Angle in 2018, after more than 20 years in investment management and research, with a primary focus in high yield and distressed markets and selected coverage in investment-grade fixed income and equity. 

Vicki Bryan's Bond Angle provides insightful commentary and analysis on high yield bond markets and market movers, including financial, economic, and industry catalysts, noted for spotting management stumbles and shenanigans early and often. Follow Vicki at bondangle.substack.com and on Twitter @VickiBryanBondA and LinkedIn.

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Tesla to Sell Another $5 Billion in Stock—Might As Well

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/tesla-motors-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:20279:1" rel="noopener">Tesla Motors (TSLA US)</a> CEO Elon Musk should be having a great week. But then the stock dropped on news the company plans to raise another $5 billion from selling stock. Then he complained to the <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musk-decries-m-b-a-ization-of-america-11607548589" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wall Street Journal</a> that there were too many MBA-types paying too much attention to financial performance of companies and not enough on producing quality products.Which is very interesting because this seems to me to be exactly what Tesla does, not that it seemed to deter investors one bit from gobbling up its $5 billion secondary offering.<a href="https://www.barrons.com/articles/the-jobs-report-was-ugly-but-it-may-be-good-news-for-stocks-51607130127" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Barron's</a> noticed it too, and how much Tesla,<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/doordash-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:28881:1" rel="noopener">DoorDash Inc (DASH US)</a>, and <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/airbnb-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:431:1" rel="noopener">Airbnb Inc (ABNBUS)</a> and other similarly inflated deals out this week felt like 1999—and not in a good way.

Tesla Motors (TSLA US) CEO Elon Musk should be having a great week. But then the stock dropped on news the company plans to raise another $5 billion from selling stock. Then he complained to the Wall Street Journal that there were too many MBA-types paying too much attention to financial performance of companies and not enough on producing quality products.Which is very interesting because this seems to me to be exactly what Tesla does, not that it seemed to deter investors one bit from gobbling up its $5 billion secondary offering.Barron's noticed it too, and how much Tesla,DoorDash Inc (DASH US), and Airbnb Inc (ABNBUS) and other similarly inflated deals out this week felt like 1999—and not in a good way.

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