Tesla's latest earnings were a mixed bag of good and bad news, Wall Street analysts said. A slew of major banks cut price targets after the results.

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Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) shares jumped 5% on Wednesday, but don’t let the green fool you, the Q1 2025 earnings report was anything but pretty.Stay

Tesla's first-quarter earnings report itself was a disaster, but Musk gave investors some much-needed good news on the conference call.

I'll continue to advocate for lower tariffs rather than higher tariffs, but that's all I can do,” Musk said about Trump’s tariffs.

The electric vehicle Goliath has suffered a series of blows that have derailed its stock price, frustrated investors, and looted hundreds of billions of dollars off CEO Elon Musk's net worth. Much of the damage has arguably been self-inflicted.

Tesla reported a first-quarter earnings miss after Tuesday's closing bell, and MarketWatch broke down the results and followed along the post-earnings call. The miss seemed irrelevant for the stock, which rallied nearly 5% as investors cheered news that Chief Executive Elon Musk is expecting to spend more time at the EV maker and less time on DOGE starting next month.

U.S. stocks climbed Wednesday, buoyed in part by President Donald Trump’s retreat on the prospect of firing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and the president’s indication that tariffs on China “will come down substantially but it won’t be zero.

In a recent press briefing, President Donald Trump said that he has “no intention of firing” Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell.

(Reuters) -Tesla peppered its latest earnings call with pledges to launch commercial robotaxi operations soon, with CEO Elon Musk promising that autonomous vehicles will "move the financial needle in a significant way" by late next year.

Investors interested in what Elon Musk says is ahead for Tesla (TSLA), rather than the company’s latest numbers, got some fresh information from the electric vehicle maker’s CEO yesterday. On Tesla’s conference call Tuesday,