Tesla tanks

Sunday scaries don't seem to realize it's only Friday.?Phil Rosen here in New York — the markets have looked grim recently, and commentators seem to be ringing?recession ?bells more loudly since Wednesday's rate hikes.?

The tech sector, notably, has taken a beating during this year's downturn, as big companies like Apple, Microsoft, and Alphabet all plunged in Thursday's session.?

But, those giants aside, today we're highlighting Tesla, which fell 10% yesterday.

Here we go.?

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1. Shares of Elon Musk's EV-maker continue to hit turbulence.?The news site Electrek reported that Tesla has?raised the prices ?on most of its cars, sending shares sliding steadily throughout Thursday's session.?

The stock fell as much as 10%. Year-to-date, Tesla has declined roughly 34%,?underperforming the S&P 500's slide of about 23% .

Out of all the Tesla models, one of the souped-up Model X's saw the biggest increase, with its sticker price jumping from $114,990 to $120,990.?

Piling on to the day's bad news, famed investor Jim Chanos —?who's been shorting Tesla stock ?— said there's plenty more to worry about for the car company.?

"We have a large suspicion that a disproportionate amount?of the profits are coming out of Shanghai. And that raises?all kinds of other risks to the multiple ," Chanos told Bloomberg this week.

He added that Tesla is trading on a "monster multiple of a profit stream," and said it was like a?poster child of the 1999 dot-com bubble .?

But Tesla is not alone in its troubles. There's?plenty of tumult ?to go around for the broader tech sector,?billionaire investor Orlando Bravo ?said Thursday.?

"I think there's more pain to come [for tech stocks]," Bravo told CNBC.

?"We've gotten to the place of enough industry maturity where investors…are saying, 'I want profitability today.' And that is going through a major rerating."

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