and Corinne Hanotin are all employees of and stockholders in Sanofi. A. Thomas DiCioccio and William Sasiela are employees of and stockholders in Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. Christopher Cannon has received grants from Accumetrics, Arisaph, AstraZeneca, Boehringer‐Ingelheim, CSL Behring, Essentialis, GlaxoSmithKline, Janssen, Merck, Regeneron, Sanofi, and Takeda and consultant/advisory board fees from Bristol‐Myers Squibb, Lipimedix, and Pfizer.

The study was conducted at 2 centers: Biotrial, Rennes, France, under the direction of Dr H. Charfi, MD (coordinating principal investigator) (laboratory: centre Eugène Marquis, Rennes), and Biotrial, Rueil‐Malmaison, France, under the direction of Dr P. Kousignian, MD (principal investigator) (laboratory: SELARL Biosmose IDF, Rueil). The clinical study director was Jacques Rey, PhD. The medical officer was Dr Jean‐Louis Pinquier, MD. Franck Poitiers, MSc, was the biostatistician. Tobias Paehler, PhD, and Aurélie Brunet, PharmD,Tesla Inc.'s sales in Hong Kong plummeted after authorities slashed a tax break for electric vehicles on April 1, demonstrating how sensitive the company's performance can be to government incentive programs.

Official data from Hong Kong's Transportation Department, analyzed by The Wall Street Journal, show that no newly purchased Tesla Model S sedans or Model X sport-utility vehicles were registered in April in the Chinese territory, and only five privately owned electric vehicles were registered in May.

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The collapse followed a surge just before the tax change, which had been announced in February, with new registrations of almost 3,700 Tesla vehicles in the first quarter -- including 2,939 in March alone -- compared with 1,506 vehicles in the entire second half of 2016.

The swing was significant for Tesla,