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Investors have wiped $126bn (£100bn) off Tesla's value amid concern that Elon Musk may have to sell shares in the electric carmaker to fund his personal ...

He had already borrowed against about half of his Tesla shares. Twitter’s shares also slid on Tuesday, falling 3.9% to close at $49.68, even though Musk agreed to buy it on Monday for $54.20 a share in cash. The share fall also took place against a backdrop of difficult trading for tech stocks.

Tesla is highly traded, and Elon Musk's sale of more than $16 billion worth of stock last year did not appear to push share prices lower.

A lot about Mr. Musk’s plan to buy Twitter is unknown, including how involved he would be. Among those who believe in Tesla’s valuation, which is much higher than rival automakers’ relative to the size of its operations, a lot of the argument depends on Mr. Musk’s stewardship. Even Tesla acknowledges this, stating as a risk in its most recent quarterly report: “We are highly dependent on the services of Elon Musk, techno-king of Tesla and our chief executive officer. Tesla is a component in both the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq composite index. But in the past six months, Tesla shares have twice fallen nearly 12 percent, on Nov. 9 and Jan. 27. Its stock’s drop of 3.7 percent on Tuesday contributed more to the overall index’s decline. Such sales would have to be reported to the Securities and Exchange Commission, but those reports are not instantaneous. He would need to sell nearly 24 million shares at Tuesday’s price to generate $21 billion in cash. Mr. Musk’s financing package for Twitter also includes $12.5 billion in loans using his Tesla shares as collateral. Tesla’s shares have lost about 20 percent of their value since Mr. Musk first revealed that he had bought a big stake in Twitter, kicking off takeover speculation. Even for Mr. Musk, who is worth well north of $200 billion, that’s a lot of cash to come up with. Given Tesla’s enormous market capitalization and its inclusion in major stock indexes, almost everybody with a 401(k) probably owns some Tesla stock.

Plus, European energy prices soar and US probes Chinese chipmaker.

Tesla is not involved in the Twitter deal, yet its shares have been targeted by speculators after Mr Musk declined to disclose publicly where his cash for the ...

Tesla is not involved in the Twitter deal, yet its shares have been targeted by speculators after Mr Musk declined to disclose publicly where his cash for the acquisition is coming from. As part of the Tesla deal, Mr Musk also took out a $12.5 billion margin loan tied to his Tesla stock. Twitter’s shares also slid on Tuesday, falling 3.9 per cent to close at $49.68 even though Mr Musk agreed to buy it on Monday for $54.20 per share in cash.

To fund the purchase of Twitter, Musk secured $25.5 billion in debt financing, with $12.5 billion coming from loans against his Tesla stock. He also is using ...

"The Twitter deal brings another X variable into the mix for Musk which will be a concern for investors until they are proven otherwise," he said. An in-house Tesla official, considered to be the CEO’s “Twitter Sitter,” has been reviewing all of Musk’s Tesla-related tweets under a 2018 agreement that settled fraud charges. On Wednesday, a federal judge dismissed a case where Musk was seeking to end an agreement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that requires oversight of his Tesla-related tweets. Dan Ives, an analyst with Wedbush Securities, said Tesla's Tuesday share price drop was a “near term overhang," likely caused by some investors' concerns about Musk selling Tesla stock to pay for the Twitter deal. So they can move for any reason, even if they didn’t use to move for reasons like this, now they can," Kay said. "There’s no limit on the reasons people can trade a stock.”

The Tesla owner has personally pledged to pump in $21bn of cash to help finance the deal.

“Could he still walk away? Mr Musk’s 17% shareholding in Tesla accounts for the biggest chunk of his huge $270bn personal wealth and are also providing the bulk of the financing for the Twitter acquisition. The Tesla owner has personally pledged to pump in $21bn of cash to help finance the deal.

"None of the arguments hold water," a federal judge said Wednesday in the latest ruling stemming from Musk's "funding secured" tweet in 2018.

“The SEC’s outsized efforts seem calculated to chill his exercise of First Amendment rights rather than to enforce generally applicable laws in evenhanded fashion.” Musk’s complicated history with the SEC has reared its way into his latest business foray—a $43 billion takeover of Twitter that the company’s board agreed to Monday. In a filing on April 14, Musk unveiled an offer to buy 100% of Twitter at $54.20 per share in cash and then take it private. Tesla was also required to pay a $20 million fine.

Investors appear to be a bit less concerned about what Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter will mean for the EV company.

Musk is clearly committed to the EV company, and even as he's put time into launching and managing other businesses, Tesla has still grown at a rapid pace. Wedbush analyst Daniel Ives highlighted this issue in an investor note Wednesday, and said that the Twitter transaction "was never ideal" for Tesla investors. After a massive 12% sell-off Tuesday, shares of leading electric vehicle maker Tesla ( TSLA 2.42%) were slightly rebounding Wednesday morning.

A U.S. judge slammed Elon Musk on Wednesday for trying to escape a settlement with regulators requiring oversight of his Tesla Inc tweets, saying the ...

"If people want less free speech, they will ask government to pass laws to that effect. The SEC has subpoenaed Musk and Tesla to determine if those tweets were vetted before they were published. Musk has since sold more than $16 billion of Tesla stock. The consent decree also required Musk to obtain pre-clearance from Tesla lawyers for tweets and other public statements that could be material to Tesla. Tesla shares rose following the tweet. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com

The EV leader is gearing up for another stock split, and that could trigger another bullish surge among retail investors.

If you have an above-average tolerance for risk, and think that the company will go on to deliver more strong performances with its electric vehicles, battery technologies, and autonomous vehicle software, it could be a worthwhile long-term investment. EVs are an exciting, fast-growing market, but there could be some twists and turns ahead that prompt the market to reassess Tesla's highly growth-dependent valuation. If you combine the performances of GM, Ford, and Volkswagen over the trailing 12 months, the cohort generated $559.37 billion in revenue and net income of $46.16 billion. However, just how much of a premium it deserves is the question that investors will have to weigh. A regulatory filing made by Tesla ( TSLA 0.58%) at the end of March revealed that the electric vehicle (EV) leader plans to carry out another stock split. The EV leader produced 305,407 vehicles in the quarter and delivered 310,048, performance that represented year-over-year jumps of roughly 69% and 68%, respectively.

Judge Lewis J. Liman shot down an argument Musk attorneys made suggesting that the settlement agreement had chilled the CEO's right to free speech.

As part of a settlement agreement, Tesla and Musk each agreed to pay a $20 million fine. For example, on Nov. 6, 2021, he tweeted a poll to his tens of millions of followers on the social network, writing, "Much is made lately of unrealized gains being a measure of tax avoidance, so I propose selling 10% of my Tesla stock. The judge also denied Musk's motion to quash a newer subpoena by the SEC. The financial regulators had charged Tesla and Musk with making "false and misleading" statements to investors when the CEO announced on Twitter on Aug. 7, 2018, that he was thinking of taking the automaker private at $420 a share and had "funding secured." A federal judge on Wednesday knocked down Tesla CEO Elon Musk's bid to terminate a settlement agreement he struck with the Securities and Exchange Commission after the agency charged him with securities fraud in September 2018. - A federal judge denied Tesla CEO Elon Musk's bid to end a settlement agreement he struck with the SEC after it charged him with securities fraud in 2018.

CEO of Tesla Motors Elon Musk. Suzanne Cordeiro/AFP via Getty Images. Tesla and Twitter stocks are linked, for at least a little while, as investors ...

Figuring out the deal spread between Tesla and Twitter (TWTR) stock isn’t easy, but Barron’s has an idea of how to frame this unconventional deal. The linkage might irritate Tesla (ticker: TSLA) shareholders, but there isn’t a lot they can do but wait for more details to emerge. Tesla and Twitter stocks are linked, for at least a little while, as investors wonder how Tesla CEO Elon Musk will fund the equity portion of his deal for the social media company.

The fall in Tesla's shares highlights the issues Elon Musk faces as he tries to run five companies.

Last year, he said he didn't want to be chief executive of Tesla. I asked him why. That evening he attended a 10pm meeting about engine design. "He spent more than an hour working on valve leak solutions. That may be true. He also heads up Space X, a company that designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. Twitter isn't a normal technology company. When does hate speech directed towards someone become abuse or harassment? "I would imagine that in the next few months, years, he's going to be deeply in the weeds of Twitter. And if you're an investor in Tesla, you're probably a little nervous about that," Mr Higgins said. "I don't recommend it though - bad for health and happiness." Where does criticism become libel? Therefore, going beyond the law is contrary to the will of the people. Now Mr Musk is looking to take on one of the hardest jobs in Silicon Valley - the new owner of Twitter.

Twitter's stock fell below Elon Musk's purchase price, signaling investor doubt about the deal.

Musk and Twitter agreed to an acquisition deal after weeks of back-and-forth between the company and the world’s richest person. Musk has said he wants to promote free speech on Twitter, which he’s said has become a de facto town square for the world. “Either way, if this continues, it’ll throw a potential wrench in Elon’s plan to buy Twitter since he needs to sell Tesla stock to cover some of the financing.”