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Re:Elon Musk tweet wipes $14bn off Tesla's value by unsupervisedluv on Friday May 01, 2020 @08:58PM (#23048114)
Probably a stock buyback ploy
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Re:Elon Musk tweet wipes $14bn off Tesla's value by jonny_eh on Friday May 01, 2020 @09:51PM (#23048385)
Wouldn’t that be illegal?
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Re:Elon Musk tweet wipes $14bn off Tesla's value by boublepop on Saturday May 02, 2020 @05:40AM (#23050589)
You mean like making public claims you’ve secured funding To take a company private in order to squeeze shorts? Yes, that would be illegal.
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Re:Elon Musk tweet wipes $14bn off Tesla's value by wp381640 on Friday May 01, 2020 @10:04PM (#23048461)
They just issued $2B of shares only ~6 weeks ago

But that was when Elon was sober, so who knows

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Re:Elon Musk tweet wipes $14bn off Tesla's value by __blockcipher__ on Friday May 01, 2020 @09:36PM (#23048313)
How would TSLA even have the capital to do buybacks? Doesn’t make sense IMO
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