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Tesla boss Elon Musk has sold around $8.5bn worth of shares in the electric vehicle company following his successful $44bn bid for Twitter. The entrepreneur sold $3.3bn worth of Tesla stock on Tuesday and another $654m on Wednesday, according to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. And on Friday morning, SEC filings showed that Mr Musk has sold another $4.5bn worth of shares as he raises the money needed to buy the social media platform. Mr Musk is the world's richest man with a personal fortune of $252bn, but most of his wealth is tied up in his Tesla stock. |
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| 'Boom boom Boris' enjoyed a fortune as the youngest male Wimbledon champion before he went bust and was jailed |
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| 'I tried to gather your fire and rage and really interesting analysis and shape that into an op-ed form,' ACLU staff member writes in email |
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| EXCLUSIVE: Authorities believe Debanhi Escobar ended up dead in a water tank by accident. In an interview with Independent en Español, her father, Mario Escobar, tells José Luis Montenegro why he's convinced that's a lie |
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| Representative Lauren Boebert avoided Capitol Hill metal detectors this week as well |
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Who are the men at the centre of a high stakes US-Russia prisoner swap? |
Two imprisoned men – one American, one Russian – will return to their respective homelands after a prisoner swap between the nations granted them their freedom. Former US Marine Trevor Reed was first detained in Russia in 2019 and has not returned home, while Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko was convicted of drug-related crimes in 2011 and has been sitting in a US jail cell ever since. Here is everything we know about the pair, whose exchange comes as relations between their countries is at its worst since the Cold War. |
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– Amazon's surprise Q1 loss, which the online retail giant blamed on 'unusual challenges' like the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and the war in Ukraine. |
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| "How about we use it to help Americans in need? Or to perhaps secure our border? Maybe get our energy sector going again? Education? No, instead we'll give it to one of the most corrupt countries in the world, where I'm sure most will be looted by corrupt politicians." |
– Donald Trump Jr provokes uproar with his dismissal of Joe Biden's appeal to Congress to back a $33bn aid package for Ukraine. |
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