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Tesla just reported its biggest quarterly drop in deliveries ever

The EV company sold about 60,000 fewer vehicles than it did in Q2 2024.

Tesla delivered 384,122 vehicles in the second quarter, down about 60,000 from the same quarter a year earlier. That’s worse than analysts expected, Tesla’s biggest year-over-year quarterly decline ever, and the second quarter in a row with a record drop.

Still, investors are shaking off the report, bidding the stock up 5.6% in premarket trading after Tesla got hammered Tuesday, when Elon Musk’s flame war with Donald Trump reignited.

Analysts had been expecting a bloodbath. FactSet’s consensus estimate was 387,000 ahead of the report, 13% lower than the year before. Many analysts had much lower guesses, including Deutsche Bank, Troy Teslike, and JPMorgan, whose estimates ranged from 355,000 to 360,000.

For the full year, analysts on average expect sales to decline about 6%, according to FactSet prior to the report.

While the stock has ridden high the past few months on optimism over the company’s now launched robotaxi program, Tesla has also faced numerous headwinds, including flagging demand, fierce competition, and a couple of public feuds with President Donald Trump.

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Oil plummets on two-week ceasefire announcement, dragging energy stocks lower

Oil prices are sharply lower Wednesday morning, extending their biggest single-day drop in six years after President Trump announced a two-week ceasefire with Iran that includes reopening the Strait of Hormuz, through which about a fifth of global oil supply flows.

As of 5:10 a.m. ET, international benchmark Brent crude was down 13.6% at around $94 per barrel, while US WTI crude fell ~16% to $95 per barrel — following its steepest one-day decline since the Russia-Saudi price war in March 2020 and extending the overnight selloff.

A slew of energy stocks are also giving back some of their war-driven gains, with oil-and-gas producers including Occidental Petroleum, Devon Energy, Diamondback Energy, ConocoPhillips, APA Corporation, Coterra Energy, and EOG Resources all down 6-9% in premarket trading.

Oil majors Exxon and Chevron both fell more than 5%, while fuel refiners including Marathon Petroleum, Valero, and Phillips 66 moved 4-6% lower.

Oilfield services names like Halliburton and natural gas producer EQT Corp fell 4-5%, while Chemical makers Dow, Inc. and LyondellBasell, along with fertilizer company CF Industries, are also trading lower. Natural gas exporter Cheniere Energy was also deeply in the red.

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