Bloomberg journalists discuss today's biggest winners and losers in the stock market. Listen for analysis on the companies making news on Wall Street.

Shares of Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) are surging on Thursday. The electric-vehicle (EV) maker's stock gained 5.2% as of 11:40 a.m. ET and was up as much as 7.3% earlier in the day. The jump comes as the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) and Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX: ^IXIC) showed modest gains.

Tesla stock is—most likely—about to end its nine-week losing streak. To move higher from current levels, it needs to break through a key price. Shares of the electric vehicle maker were up 0.2% at $ 273.

Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk says the electric-car maker won't be “unscathed” by President Trump’s 25% auto tariffs. But the stock-market reaction suggests the car company might be able to better navigate them than its American rivals.

Tesla Takedown, the decentralized protest movement, plans for Saturday, March 29, to be their biggest day of action yet. Trump has compared the protesters to terrorists, vowing they will “go through hell.