Tesla overtakes Facebook to become the 5th-most-valuable company in the S&P 500.
- A 7% surge in #Tesla has helped cement Elon Musk as the richest person in the world, edging out Amazon's Jeff Bezos.
- #Cryptocurrency platforms have experienced disruptions coinciding with rapid price increases throughout the past year.
- Wall Street's main indices opened higher, with the S&P 500 and the #Dow near record levels as bets on more pandemic aid under a Democrat-controlled U.S. Congress eclipsed bad jobs data.