Liam Denning, Columnist

Are You All Caught Up On Tesla? There’s Always More

The company’s “most amazing quarter” is about to end. But is anyone looking at the numbers?

September 18, 2018 at 7:45 PM UTC

Liam Denning is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering energy. A former banker, he edited the Wall Street Journal’s Heard on the Street column and wrote the Financial Times’s Lex column.

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Fun fact: Tesla Inc.’s third quarter ends in 12 days. As quarters go, this one has lasted about five years. A lot has happened:

News of the DOJ inquiry, broken by my colleagues at Bloomberg News, sent Tesla’s shares into a skid. By mid-afternoon, though, they had recovered somewhat and were down just 3 percent or so. Tesla’s statement emphasizing it was cooperating with a voluntary request for documents from the DOJ and hadn’t been subpoenaed appeared to calm some nerves.