{"id":1221,"date":"2022-08-10T16:12:51","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T12:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/polise.az\/en\/?p=1221"},"modified":"2022-08-10T16:54:40","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T12:54:40","slug":"elon-musk-sells-tesla-shares-worth-6-9-billion-to-avoid-twitter-fire-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/polise.az\/en\/elon-musk-sells-tesla-shares-worth-6-9-billion-to-avoid-twitter-fire-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk sells Tesla shares worth $6.9 billion to avoid Twitter fire sale."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.az\/storage\/news\/2022\/august\/10\/big\/62f362995a85d62f362995a85e166011765762f362995a85a62f362995a85b.webp\" alt=\"Elon Musk sells Tesla shares worth $6.9 billion to avoid Twitter fire sale\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Elon Musk sold $6.9 billion (roughly Rs. 54,880 crore) of his shares in Tesla Inc. the billionaire&#8217;s biggest sale on record, saying he needed cash in case he is forced to go ahead with his aborted deal to buy&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn the (hopefully unlikely) event that&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>&nbsp;forces this deal to close *and* some equity partners don&#8217;t come through, it is important to avoid an emergency sale of Tesla stock,\u201d Musk tweeted late Tuesday after the sales were disclosed in a series of regulatory filings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Asked by followers if he was done selling and would buy Tesla stock again if the $44 billion (roughly Rs. 3,49,970 crore) deal doesn&#8217;t close, Musk responded: \u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tesla&#8217;s chief executive officer offloaded about 7.92 million shares on August 5, according to the new filings. The sale comes just four months after the world&#8217;s richest person said he had no further plans to sell Tesla shares after disposing of $8.5 billion (roughly Rs. 67,600 crore) of stock in the wake of his initial offer to buy&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elon Musk sold $6.9 billion (roughly Rs. 54,880 crore) of his shares in Tesla Inc. the billionaire&#8217;s biggest sale on record, saying he needed cash in case he is forced to go ahead with his aborted deal to buy Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn the (hopefully unlikely) event that&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Twitter<\/a>&nbsp;forces this deal to close *and* some equity partners don&#8217;t come through, it is important to avoid an emergency sale of Tesla stock,\u201d Musk tweeted late Tuesday after the sales were disclosed in a series of regulatory filings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk sold $6.9 billion (roughly Rs. 54,880 crore) of his shares in Tesla Inc. the billionaire&#8217;s biggest sale on record, saying he needed cash in case he is forced to go ahead with his aborted deal to buy&nbsp;Twitter. \u201cIn the (hopefully unlikely) event that&nbsp;Twitter&nbsp;forces this deal to close *and* some equity partners don&#8217;t come &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/polise.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/polise.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/polise.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polise.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polise.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/polise.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/polise.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polise.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polise.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}