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This is a series of stories about Tesla’s ambitions in China. In a recent filing, Tesla said that 2016 sales in China were $1.06 billion. That’s roughly a quarter of what the company made in the U.S. last year. While the China figures represent significant growth from a disappointing 2015, it’s still well below what CEO Elon Musk once imagined.

Amazon’s grand grocery ambitions have scrambled the supermarket industry and forced traditional chains to beef up their online delivery options.

Historically, game companies face steep challenges to sustain the revenue from existing blockbusters while continuing to develop successful new games. Stocks of mobile game companies such as Zynga and Gumi Inc. are more than 60% below their initial offering prices. Netmarble Games Corp., South Korea’s biggest listing in seven years, has declined 17% only a few months after it started trading this May.

An analysis of mortgage data shows that one in five home mortgage applications were rejected in the Miami metro area in 2015, making The Magic City the hardest place to get a home loan among the 20 large U.S. cities in the Case-Shiller housing index.

A Mansion Global analysis of data reported from the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act shows that in 2014 and 2015, those who took out mortgages for more than $10 million earned an average of $4.5 million. Over a 25-year-term, the average debt-to-income ratio for these super jumbo mortgages is 23 times higher than the minimum 36% recommended for regular customers.  

Job searching data suggests that more than 38% of technology job seekers in the San Francisco and San Jose area have clicked on postings outside of the area from October 2016 to January 2017, up from just 27% four years ago.

A recent study from Glassdoor suggested foreign H-1B workers actually made about 2.8% more than their U.S. peers across the 10 cities and roughly 100 jobs examined. Does that stand?

MarketWatch took a closer look through the nonimmigrant visas data from the U.S. Department of State and broke it down for the 53,440 temporary visitors from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.

The number of fiancée visas issued to foreign nationals has tripled from 12,088 to 38,403 a year since the late 1990s. A closer look at data from the Department of State reveals that a stunning 18% of the fiancée visas issued last year — that’s a total of 6,926 — went to citizens from one country, the Philippines.

A record number of guns — 3,391 — were discovered in passengers’ carry-on bags at American airports in 2016, up 28% from the year before, and a jump from just 821 in 2006, according to a report recently published on the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) blog.

In 1955, the average weight of chickens sold on market was 3.07 pounds, while the number for the first half of 2016 was 6.18 pounds, according to National Chicken Council, a nonprofit trade organization based in Washington, D.C.