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China's BYD says it sold more than 2.2 million electric vehicles last year, easily overtaking Tesla's 1.6 million cars.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk thrust himself into U.S.
politics in the last few years, but the consequences appear to have hurt his company.
Musk oversaw many of President Trump's sweeping cuts to the federal government last year, leading to customer boycotts and protests before he fell out with the White House.
Later in 2025, Trump's tax and spending law ended federal subsidies for electric vehicles, further hurting Tesla sales.
Tesla sales have been dropping for the past two years, and now a Chinese competitor has pulled ahead.
China's BYD says it sold more than 2.2 million electric vehicles last year, easily overtaking Tesla's 1.6 million cars.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk thrust himself into U.S.
politics in the last few years, but the consequences appear to have hurt his company.
Musk oversaw many of President Trump's sweeping cuts to the federal government last year, leading to customer boycotts and protests before he fell out with the White House.
Later in 2025, Trump's tax and spending law ended federal subsidies for electric vehicles, further hurting Tesla sales.
The Federal Reserve cut interest rates again, as widely expected, and said it's entering wait-and-see mode about the economy.
Investors responded by sending the Dow and the S&P 500 to record highs on Thursday.
It was a good week for non-tech stocks like UnitedHealth Group and Johnson & Johnson.
But the big tech companies that have been dominating the markets sparked more fears about an AI bubble.
Shares in chipmaker Broadcom plunged.
Acid shares in Oracle, Larry Ellison's cloud computing company.
Ellison's family is also trying to buy Warner Brothers Discovery.