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J.P. Morgan has quietly closed the book on one of Wall Street's most bearish calls. A new analyst has taken over Tesla coverage at the bank, and with that transition comes a dramatically less gloomy outlook — one that had previously been pointing toward a sixty-five percent decline in the stock. Analyst changes don't always shift the needle, but this one clearly did.
Staying in the Musk universe, SpaceX is leaning hard on retail investors to carry its blockbuster IPO across the finish line. The offering is targeting roughly twenty-three billion dollars in shares, and the pitch is essentially this: institutional money alone won't get it done. Musk needs the kind of cultish loyalty his individual investors have historically delivered, and he's banking on it now more than ever.
Pulling back to the broader tape, some strategists are flagging the possibility of a June swoon for the S&P five hundred. The index is testing technical limits, and even a strong earnings report from Oracle next week may not be enough to sustain momentum. With macro uncertainty still hanging over the market, the path of least resistance could be sideways — or lower.
That's the tape. Markets Desk, signing off the floor.
