SQUAWK BOX, THURSDAY 2ND MARCH, 2023

Tesla held its annual investor day but Elon Musk’s Master Plan 3 fails to deliver specific details despite a pledge to halve assembly line costs. The EV maker’s shares fell in extended trading. The U.S. 10-year Treasury yield hits 4 per cent for the same time since November. Equities plunge as investors struggle to accept a persistently higher rate environment. Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari says he is likely to keep pushing rates higher this spring. In Europe, markets are down and bond yields climb to multi-year high as Germany warns of rising inflation. We hear from Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel who says he expects the ECB to keep hiking rates over the coming months. In the UK, however, BoE Governor Andrew Bailey says further rate hikes are not a given. And in banking news, activist investors are demanding a vote at the HSBC AGM in May as they seek to spin off the lender’s successful Asian business units.  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.