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Tesla (TSLA) board members testified on Wednesday that Elon Musk’s 2018 Twitter posts about taking the electric-vehicle company private were consistent with what he related to the board about a potential take-private deal. Outside director James Murdoch, son of film and television titan Rupert Murdoch, took the stand among other former or current board members. The testimony is part of the class-action trial brought by company shareholders who contend they traded Tesla shares to their… Source link

Investors are hoping Tesla’s (TSLA) price-cutting ways have run their course for 2023. “Based on the statement that [Elon Musk] made on the fourth quarter earnings call, saying that his demand is 2x his supply, you’d be silly to cut price,” BofA analyst John Murphy on Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “You would just be eating into your profitability and not achieving any more incremental volume in the near term.” Earlier this month, Tesla cut the Model 3 base version by $3,000 to $43,990. The… Source link

The uber-busy Elon Musk is still a key risk to the successful running of Tesla (TSLA) that investors shouldn’t lose sight of, warned Jefferies analyst Phillippe Houchois. “We have published research many times in the past where we say the enemy is inside of Tesla,” Houchois said on Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “Musk is an incredible driving force, but he is also the one that brings unnecessary risk, in a way, to the situation.” The prickly billionaire reminded investors of that risk at… Source link

Elon Musk said Google had a “standing interest in buying Tesla” in testimony in the securities fraud trial. The Tesla CEO said this helped encourage him to try to secure funds to take the EV maker private. According to a 2015 book, Musk and former Google CEO Larry Page had an $11 billion deal in place for Tesla.   … Source link

Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk took the witness stand on Friday to defend his 2018 Twitter posts against a group of Tesla shareholders. The shareholders hope to persuade jurors that the posts — specifically the one where Musk tweeted “funding secured” to take Tesla private — were false and therefore violated securities laws. “The tweets are truthful — just simply short,” Musk said on the stand Friday in response to the shareholders’ lawyer who questioned whether Twitter’s character… Source link

The jury selection process in the trial to determine if one of Elon Musk’s infamous tweets violated U.S. securities laws kicked off on Tuesday. The trial comes after Tesla’s shareholders sued Musk and Tesla’s board of directors in 2018, alleging that Musk illegally posted on Twitter that funding had been secured to privatize the electric vehicle company. Musk’s post, the shareholders say, artificially manipulated Tesla’s stock price. “Am considering taking Tesla private at $420…. Source link

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Jill Holtzman Vogel, former lead counsel at Glenn Youngkin for Governor, discusses the FBI’s response to the Twitter Files and the impact it could have on the government agency. Elon Musk said on Tuesday that Google frequently makes links disappear in a follow-up to a recent installment of the Twitter Files. All social media platforms work with the U.S. government to censor content, Twitter CEO Elon Musk claimed on Tuesday. The billionaire’s comment refers to the internal Twitter… Source link

There are more reasons behind Tesla’s (TSLA) plunging stock price than Elon Musk’s focus on Twitter, according to Wells Fargo auto analyst Colin Langan. “It’s very concerning about the weakness that we’re seeing in China,” Langan said on Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “We are seeing incentives go up, and sales actually are not increasing there. And [a] driving concern is: Are we going to start seeing that in the U.S. and Europe? Is that just sort of the early days of softening demand? And… Source link

Twitter owner Elon Musk and the platform’s cofounder Jack Dorsey.Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images Jack Dorsey said Twitter was defenseless against Elon Musk’s acquisition, per a data scientist. Emily Gorcenski said she exchanged messages with Twitter cofounder about Musk’s involvement. Dorsey said Twitter “should have never gone public” and that anyone could buy it, per Gorcenski. Jack Dorsey said Twitter had no defenses against Elon Musk acquiring the company in October, according to a data… Source link