Elon Musk Sells $7 Billion in Tesla Inventory for Twitter Deal
Elon Musk, the chief govt of the electrical car maker Tesla, has bought about $7 billion value of the corporate’s inventory, a transfer he mentioned on Twitter was an effort to boost money in case he was compelled to finish his $44 billion deal to accumulate Twitter.
The sale of seven.92 million Tesla shares began Friday, Mr. Musk revealed on Tuesday in securities filings, a reversal from his earlier statements that he wouldn’t promote extra shares to finance the Twitter deal.
Mr. Musk signed the deal in April to accumulate the social media firm solely to announce months later