A phone call from Mark Cuban convinced Elon Musk to make a deal with the SEC (TSLA)

Mark Cuban was apparently the voice of reason who persuaded Tesla CEO Elon Musk to settle with the Securities and Exchange Commission rather than fight the SEC and his board, according to The Wall Street Journal. Cuban famously won a lawsuit against the SEC, and Musk had hired Cuban's lawyer to help fend off the SEC's suit against him. But Cuban warned Musk that a fight with the SEC would be long and ugly, and that helped persuade Musk to negotiate instead, The Journal reported. As...