No. 1 in US stock turnover on Friday$Tesla (TSLA.US)$It closed down 0.52% and traded US$28.69 billion. On Thursday, Tesla's electric pickup truck Cybertruck finally began the first batch of deliveries at the Texas Gigafactory in the US, and the price was officially announced. The starting price of Cybertruck without a discount is $60,990, $79990, and $99,900. This is quite a bit higher than the starting price of $3,9990 proposed when the car debuted in 2019.

Company X CEO Linda Jacarino sent a memo to employees on Thursday expressing support for boss Elon Musk (Elon Musk). Musk previously fiercely criticized in an interview at an event that included$Disney (DIS.US)$Advertisers, including, mocked them for boycotting the platform because he supported a so-called “anti-Semite” post on the X platform.

Musk said at the time, “What if someone wants to blackmail me with ads? Extorting me with money? Get your eggs off and don't advertise at all.”

In the memo, Jacarino said, “Our principles have no price tag, we will not compromise, and we will never. No matter how hard they try, we won't be distracted by criticism from bystanders who don't understand our mission.”

Second place$NVIDIA (NVDA.US)$It closed down 0.01% and traded $17.26 billion. Its competitor, AMD, is about to launch a high-performance AI GPU that rivals Nvidia A100/H100 — the MI300 series chip. Wall Street analysts are generally bullish on AMD's stock price.

Nvidia CEO Hwang In-hoon emphasized that the global transformation to the era of artificial intelligence has only just begun. He believes that GPU-accelerated computing to accelerate specific tasks by breaking down specific tasks into smaller parts and performing parallel processing is dominating.

AMD closed 0.19% higher on Friday, trading 4.46 billion US dollars, ranking 8th in Friday's US stock turnover.

3rd place$Microsoft (MSFT.US)$It closed down 1.16% and traded US$12.36 billion. On December 1, the British government said that Microsoft plans to invest 2.5 billion pounds in the UK over the next 3 years. The plan will support the future development of artificial intelligence (AI). This is the company's largest single investment in the UK in history.

Earlier, at the investment summit held in London on November 27, the British Prime Minister announced that Britain will welcome 29.5 billion pounds of private investment, including Microsoft's investment of 2.5 billion pounds in artificial intelligence infrastructure. The British Prime Minister said yesterday that this is a turning point in the future of the UK's artificial intelligence infrastructure and development.

Fourth place$Apple (AAPL.US)$It closed 0.68% higher and traded $8.72 billion. Apple is reportedly exploring with Paramount the possibility of bundling its streaming service Apple TV+ with Paramount+ to improve the affordability of both services. This discussion is still in its early stages, and the exact form of the bundled service is currently unclear. People familiar with the matter revealed that the customer loss rate for Apple TV+ and Paramount+ was above average, over 7%.

According to our understanding, Paramount has previous experience in seeking partners in the field of streaming services. In 2022, the company and$Walmart (WMT.US)$Cooperation to provide Paramount+ as part of Walmart+ services. Walmart+ is a Walmart rival$Amazon (AMZN.US)$Prime's product, which includes its own streaming service.

5th place$Amazon (AMZN.US)$It closed 0.64% higher and traded $5.86 billion. Broker Oppenheimer raised the Amazon stock price target from $170 to $200.

According to reports, Microsoft and Amazon have come under global scrutiny due to their dominance in the cloud computing industry, including regulators in the UK, EU, and US that are reviewing their market power.

The UK's antitrust regulator CMA began investigating the country's cloud computing industry in October this year. Earlier, media regulator Ofcom emphasized the dominant position of Amazon and Microsoft in the market.

6th place$Meta Platforms (META.US)$It closed down 0.71% and traded US$4.95 billion. People familiar with the matter revealed that Facebook's parent company Meta Platforms plans to launch Threads in Europe in December.

It is reported that in order to comply with relevant regulatory regulations, Meta will provide EU users with the option to simply browse when using Threads, without the need to set up a personal homepage where posts can be posted.

Since Threads was launched in July this year, it can be used in most markets around the world, but due to EU regulation of online services, Meta has yet to launch this service in the EU.

In addition, Meta executives said at an event on Thursday that publicly sharing its artificial intelligence technology had no significant negative impact, even though many peers have taken the opposite approach.

9th place$Alphabet-A (GOOGL.US)$It closed down 0.51% and traded US$4.14 billion. The 11th Google (GOOG) closed down 0.45% and traded $3.172 billion. According to reports, Google has applied to the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) requesting action against Microsoft on the grounds that Microsoft's business practices put competitors at a significant disadvantage.

10th$Salesforce (CRM.US)$It closed 3.22% higher and traded $3.76 billion. On November 30, Saifshi announced its financial results for the third quarter of the 2024 fiscal year ending October 31, 2023. On the day of the financial report, after-hours stock trading rose 8%, and its stock price rose to $250.

On the other side of rising stock prices, Saifushi's profit margin increased at the expense of revenue growth. Its year-on-year revenue growth has been reduced to 11%, the slowest growth rate in more than 10 years. According to a recent KeyBanc report, Saifx's AI development may take more time to generate sales growth.

12th place$Pfizer (PFE.US)$It closed down 5.12%, the biggest one-day decline since December 2021, and traded US$3 billion. On Thursday, US Attorney General Ken Paxton of Texas sued the company for misrepresenting the effectiveness of its COVID-19 vaccine. According to reports, the lawsuit alleges that Pfizer used misleading statistics to promote its COVID-19 vaccine and attempted to “intimidate” anyone who questions the product. The Texas Attorney General asked the judge to fine more than $10 million and ordered a ban on Pfizer from publicizing the efficacy of its vaccine.

On Friday, Pfizer said the experimental diet drug danuglipron (a GLP-1 oral diet pill) taken twice a day would not enter the phase III study due to the observed high incidence of adverse effects.

Experimental results showed that up to 73% of patients had symptoms of nausea, up to 47% of patients had vomiting, and up to 25% had diarrhea. The withdrawal rate for all doses is very high. Judging from clinical trial statistics, a higher withdrawal rate basically means that the drug has significant side effects, causing patients to be unable to continue taking it.

14th$Eli Lilly and Co (LLY.US)$It closed down 1.18% and traded $2.15 billion. Requirements from EU drug regulators on Friday$Novo-Nordisk A/S (NVO.US)$Some pharmaceutical companies, including Eli Lilly, provided more information to examine the potential risk of suicide associated with a new class of diet pills.

15th$Alibaba (BABA.US)$It closed down 1.19% and traded $2.05 billion. Alibaba's cumulative decline this week was 5.73%, and its market value fell to US$18.436 billion.$PDD Holdings (PDD.US)$This week's cumulative increase was 22.38%, reaching a market capitalization of US$193.04 billion, replacing Alibaba as the largest US stock in China by market capitalization.

16th$Netflix (NFLX.US)$It closed down 1.74% and traded $2.03 billion. According to people familiar with the matter, Netflix and Viacom18 of India's billionaire Mukesh Ambani (Mukesh Ambani) and other streaming companies plan to jointly lobby the Indian government to postpone or revise a broadcasting law.

India introduced a new draft law regulating the broadcast industry last month, which will also apply to streaming giants. The bill proposes the establishment of a content evaluation committee, composed of members from different social groups, who will review programs before they are released.

18th place$Intel (INTC.US)$It closed down 2.15% and traded at $1.92 billion. Citi published a research report on Friday saying that Dell's PC business is weak and may drag down Intel's stock price.

The following are the 20 most actively traded US stocks on the same day (by turnover):

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