Safety matters a great deal in the automotive market. Safety recalls and investigations, paradoxically, don’t matter as much.
Investors might not be able to tell that by looking at stocks.
Tesla
(ticker: TSLA) shares were down 3.7% in midday trading Wednesday, the same day the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened an investigation into steering wheels that could detach. The
S&P 500
was down 0.2% and the
Nasdaq Composite
was flat.