{"id":6639,"date":"2022-08-10T06:38:07","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T04:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/10\/elon-musk-sells-tesla-shares-worth-6-9bn-as-twitter-trial-looms\/"},"modified":"2022-08-10T06:38:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T04:38:07","slug":"elon-musk-sells-tesla-shares-worth-6-9bn-as-twitter-trial-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/10\/elon-musk-sells-tesla-shares-worth-6-9bn-as-twitter-trial-looms\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk sells Tesla shares worth $6.9bn as Twitter trial looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla CEO admits he could need the funds if he loses a legal battle with Twitter and is forced to buy the social media platform<\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk has sold $6.9bn (\u00a35.7bn) worth of shares in Tesla after admitting that he could need the funds if he loses a legal battle with Twitter and is forced to buy the social media platform.<\/p>\n<p>The Tesla CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/jul\/08\/elon-musk-buy-twitter-withdraw\">walked away from a $44bn deal to buy Twitter<\/a> in July but the company has launched a lawsuit demanding that he complete the deal. A trial will take place in Delaware in October.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/aug\/10\/elon-musk-sells-tesla-shares-worth-69bn-as-twitter-trial-looms\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/f3aa28b67f7a449e7237cd45fc0e6ee283cba5cc\/0_188_5284_3169\/master\/5284.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=a9eaf488cb6c8422777efc46a0b3b86f\" title=\"Elon Musk sells Tesla shares worth $6.9bn as Twitter trial looms\" \/>Tesla CEO admits he could need the funds if he loses a legal battle with Twitter and is forced to buy the social media platform<br \/>\nElon Musk has sold $6.9bn (\u00a35.7bn) worth of shares in Tesla after admitting that he could need the funds if he loses a legal battle with Twitter and is forced to buy the social media platform.<br \/>\nThe Tesla CEO walked away from a $44bn deal to buy Twitter in July but the company has launched a lawsuit demanding that he complete the deal. A trial will take place in Delaware in October. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla CEO admits he could need the funds if he loses a legal battle with Twitter and is forced to buy the social media platform Elon Musk has sold $6.9bn (\u00a35.7bn) worth of shares in Tesla after admitting that he could need the funds if he loses a legal battle with Twitter and is forced &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/10\/elon-musk-sells-tesla-shares-worth-6-9bn-as-twitter-trial-looms\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Elon Musk sells Tesla shares worth $6.9bn as Twitter trial looms<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6640,"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\/6639"}],"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=6639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}