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High-flying Tesla joins S&P 500; skeptics say buyer beware

by Tom Krisher
| December 20, 2020 9:09 PM

DETROIT (AP) — In the middle of last year, Tesla's losses were piling up, sales weren't enough to cover expenses and big debt payments loomed. The situation was so bad that one influential Wall Street analyst raised the possibility that Tesla wouldn't be able to pay its bills and would have to be restructured financially.

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