- Morgan Stanley dropped coverage of
- Shares surged as much as 5% following the news.
- Also on Tuesday,
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Tesla surges after Morgan Stanley becomes the second Wall Street bank to drop coverage of the stock (TSLA)
Tesla's stock price has whipsawed in the two weeks since Musk first tweeted his plan to take Tesla private at $420 a share. After initially skyrocketing to $389 —near record highs — shares briefly fell back below $300 on Monday following a slew of securities fraud lawsuits and an SEC investigation.
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, as is typical when a bank's investment banking division is hired by a company its equity research department covers. The two departments are legally divided by a so-called Chinese wall that prevents the two divisions from conflicts-of-interest.
Also on Tuesday, new documents reported on by Business Insider's Linette Lopez showed the grueling way Tesla reached its goal of producing 5,000 Model 3 sedans per week. During the week of June 23rd, Tesla reworked a little over 4,300 Model 3 vehicles, according to internal documents. Each car took an average of 37 minutes to repair.
And finally, In a video factory tour with YouTube star Marques Brownlee published early Tuesday, CEO Elon Musk said Tesla may be able to produce an electric car for $25,000, but that it would take three years to get there.
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"I think in order for us to get up to...a 25,000 car, that's something we can do," he said. "If we work really hard, I think maybe we can do that in three years."
He added that design and technology improvements are the keys to affordability, but that scale of production plays an important role as well.
Shares are currently trading 32% below Musk's target of $420 per share.
Read more about Tesla's bid to go-private:
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- JPMorgan walks back its enthusiasm for Tesla's go-private bid, says 'funding appears to not have been secured'
- The SEC reportedly sent subpoenas to Tesla concerning Elon Musk's tweets about taking Tesla private
- IT'S OFFICIAL: Goldman Sachs is advising Elon Musk on his plans to take Tesla private
- Members of Tesla's board of directors are said to be lawyering up as crisis around Elon Musk deepens
- Pressure mounts on Tesla as it gets hit with a third securities fraud lawsuit in wake of Elon Musk's 'funding secured' tweet
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