Musk is on trial for a case filed by Twitter investors in 2022, the year he purchased the social media company for $44 billion.

Musk told the jury that “people tend to read too much into things that I do,” and described the stock market as “manic depressive,” pointing out that it can fluctuate.

It started with yet another Elon Musk tweet. Where it ends, nobody knows. The SEC on Monday asked a federal judge to hold Musk in contempt for violating a settlement deal reached last year. That puts the billionaire Tesla CEO back in legal jeopardy — and ...