{"id":3609,"date":"2021-11-08T14:38:59","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T13:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/08\/will-elon-musk-abide-by-twitter-poll-and-sell-10-of-his-tesla-shares\/"},"modified":"2021-11-08T14:38:59","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T13:38:59","slug":"will-elon-musk-abide-by-twitter-poll-and-sell-10-of-his-tesla-shares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/08\/will-elon-musk-abide-by-twitter-poll-and-sell-10-of-his-tesla-shares\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Elon Musk abide by Twitter poll and sell 10% of his Tesla shares?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World\u2019s wealthiest person says proposed billionaires tax led to poll, the result of which sent price falling<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/nov\/08\/tesla-shares-fall-elon-musk-twitter-poll-sell-off-plan\">Tesla shares fall after Elon Musk\u2019s Twitter poll<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Elon Musk, the chief executive of Tesla and world\u2019s richest person, asked his 62.8 million Twitter followers over the weekend whether he should sell $21bn (\u00a315.5bn) worth of shares in the electric car company in order to pay tax. Tweeting he would \u201cabide by the results of this poll, whichever way it goes\u201d, 58% of those who responded said \u201cyes\u201d, he should sell the shares, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/nov\/08\/tesla-shares-fall-elon-musk-twitter-poll-sell-off-plan\">sending Tesla\u2019s share price down 5% in pre-market trading on Monday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why did he do it?<br \/><\/strong>Musk, who is sitting on a paper fortune of more than $338bn in Tesla and Space-X shares, proposed selling 10% of his Tesla shares in order to generate enough money to pay a proposed \u201cbillionaires tax\u201d on \u201cunrealised capital gains\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/nov\/08\/will-elon-musk-abide-by-twitter-poll-and-sell-10-of-his-tesla-shares\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/b78c03505f47ce708254ffc9235cfb6beab83d2c\/82_0_3013_1808\/master\/3013.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=a6526fd4123150e25cb474612c87c377\" title=\"Will Elon Musk abide by Twitter poll and sell 10% of his Tesla shares?\" \/>World\u2019s wealthiest person says proposed billionaires tax led to poll, the result of which sent price falling<br \/>\nTesla shares fall after Elon Musk\u2019s Twitter poll<br \/>\nElon Musk, the chief executive of Tesla and world\u2019s richest person, asked his 62.8 million Twitter followers over the weekend whether he should sell $21bn (\u00a315.5bn) worth of shares in the electric car company in order to pay tax. Tweeting he would \u201cabide by the results of this poll, whichever way it goes\u201d, 58% of those who responded said \u201cyes\u201d, he should sell the shares, sending Tesla\u2019s share price down 5% in pre-market trading on Monday.<br \/>\nWhy did he do it?Musk, who is sitting on a paper fortune of more than $338bn in Tesla and Space-X shares, proposed selling 10% of his Tesla shares in order to generate enough money to pay a proposed \u201cbillionaires tax\u201d on \u201cunrealised capital gains\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World\u2019s wealthiest person says proposed billionaires tax led to poll, the result of which sent price falling Tesla shares fall after Elon Musk\u2019s Twitter poll Elon Musk, the chief executive of Tesla and world\u2019s richest person, asked his 62.8 million Twitter followers over the weekend whether he should sell $21bn (\u00a315.5bn) worth of shares in &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/08\/will-elon-musk-abide-by-twitter-poll-and-sell-10-of-his-tesla-shares\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Will Elon Musk abide by Twitter poll and sell 10% of his Tesla shares?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3609"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}