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Elon Musk Tesla Share Sale: Billionaire Sells $3.95 bn Stock After Buying Twitter
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Elon Musk Tesla Share Sale: Billionaire Sells $3.95 bn Stock After Buying Twitter

[ad_1] Tesla CEO Elon Musk sold at least $3.95 bn of the electric-vehicle maker’s shares just days after closing his buyout of Twitter Inc. Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk sold at least $3.95 billion of the electric-vehicle maker's shares just days after closing his buyout of Twitter Inc.Musk unloaded 19.5 million shares, according to regulatory filings on Tuesday in New York, his first disposals since August. The documents didn't indicate that the transactions were pre-planned. The world's richest person followed through with his takeover of the social-media platform in October, after spending months trying to get out of it. In August, Musk had said he was done offloading Tesla stock and that it was important to avoid an “emergency sale” of the shares in case he was forc...
How a Mysterious China Screenshot on WeChat Spurred a $450 Billion Rally
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How a Mysterious China Screenshot on WeChat Spurred a $450 Billion Rally

[ad_1] Nobody is quite sure who wrote it, when it was written or if it’s even true. Nobody is quite sure who wrote it, when it was written or if it's even true. But a screenshot of four paragraphs detailing a China reopening plan was enough for traders to scoop up stocks for two days running. The unverified post, which contained black characters on a white background with no identifying marks, first began circulating on Monday night in WeChat social messaging groups filled with analysts and fund managers, according to accounts by a dozen investors who asked not to be identified. By the next morning, it was spreading like wildfire. The screenshot claimed that on Sunday, China's No. 4 official Wang Huning -- one of seven men on the powerful Politburo Standing Committee -- held a me...