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Will Elon Musk play nice during earnings call?

SAN FRANCISCO - The buzz around Tesla's second-quarter earnings announcement on Wednesday afternoon isn't over how many millions of dollars Tesla will have lost. It's whether Chief Executive Elon Musk will behave himself during his conference call with stock analysts.

During the first-quarter earnings call in May, he cut off questions from analysts who asked about competition from Porsche, capital expenditures and demand for the Model 3. Musk deemed those inquiries "boring" and "so dry, they're killing me." He turned the call over to a Tesla-invited fanboy with a YouTube

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