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Catch up on the weekend's top five stories with this list compiled by The Fly: 1. Tesla (TSLA) announced that in the fourth quarter, it produced 439,701 vehicles, 4% of which are subject to operating lease accounting, and delivered 405,278 vehicles. In 2022, vehicle deliveries grew 40% year-over-year to 1.31M while production grew 47% year-over-year to 1.37M, Tesla said in a statement. Tesla's Q4 Model 3 and Y production was 419,088, its Model S and X was 20,613. 2. Chinese EV makers NIO (NIO), Li Auto (LI), and Xpeng (XPEV) also announced deliveries over the weekend. NIO said it delivered 15,815 vehicles in December, representing an increase of 50.8% year-over-year. NIO also said it delivered 40,052 vehicles in Q4, representing an increase of 60.0% year-over-year, and 122,486 vehicles in 2022 in total, increasing by 34.0% year-over-year. Meanwhile, XPeng said it delivered 11,292 Smart EVs to customers in December, representing a 94% increase over November. Total vehicle deliveries for Q4 reached 22,204. As of December 31, 2022, year-to-date deliveries were 120,757, representing a 23% increase year-over-year. Total cumulative deliveries reached 258,710 as of December 31, 2022. Lastly, Li Auto announced that the company delivered 21,233 vehicles in December 2022, representing an increase of 50.7% year over year. This brought the company's Q4 deliveries to 46,319, up 31.5% year over year. Total deliveries in 2022 increased by 47.2% year over year to 133,246. The cumulative deliveries of Li Auto vehicles reached 257,334 as of the end of December. 3. Southwest Airlines (LUV) returned to more normal operations this weekend, contending with some weather challenges as it sought to regain credibility with regulators and travelers following the carrier's meltdown over the holidays, The Wall Street Journal's Alison Sider reports. Southwest restored its full schedule Friday after slashing flying plans much of the week in an effort to regain its footing after the cascade of cancellations, the author notes. It scrapped just a few dozen flights Saturday and Sunday-less than 1% of what it had scheduled each day, according to FlightAware. 4. Disney's (DIS) "Avatar: The Way of Water" won this New Year's weekend with an estimated $86.3M for the four days for a domestic total of $444.4M as it crossed $1.4B in worldwide ticket sales on Monday. Overseas, the movie grossed an estimated $186.7M for the three-day weekend for a foreign cume of $956.9M. 5. Take-Two (TTWO) stock was down 43% in 2022, making it the group's worst performer, Jack Hough writes in this week's edition of Barron's. Now, the company is betting big on game demand in the coming years. Micron (MU) was also down 46% in 2022, as the semiconductor industry has swung from fierce demand and short supply to bloated supply and iffy demand, the author writes. But inventory digestion for memory could be relatively quick, too. On the streaming side, subscriber growth has fizzled, and companies have been spending lavishly on content, with investors turning nervous and Warner Bros. Discovery's (WBD) stock dropping 60% in 2022, Hough notes. However, surveys show that subscribers are shifting to cheaper ad-supported plans where they're offered. That could set up nicely for Warner.