Twitter Stock Falls on Fears Musk Might Abandon Deal

Text size One merger arbitrager says the Twitter deal’s conditions are “seller-friendly.” Scott Olson/Getty Images Twitter shares are falling Wednesday as investors worry that Elon M...

Twitter Stock Offers 9% Return to Musk’s Takeover Price After Tuesday’s Selloff

Text size Shares of Twitter fell about $2, meaning investors stand to make about 9% if Musk’s offer goes through. Scott Olson/Getty Images Twitter stock now offers a 9% return to Elon Musk’s tak...

Tesla Stock Dropped After Elon Musk’s Deal for Twitter. Blame Margin Borrowing.

Text size Elon Musk is taking Twitter private. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Twitter shares are rising and Tesla stock is down in response to news that the Twitter board of directors accepted Tesla CEO...

Twitter Sale to Musk Is Another Sign the Stock Market Is in Trouble

Twitter accepted an offer from Elon Musk to go private. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Text size Twitter is getting bought out by Elon Musk—and for a price that looks too low. It could be a sign that the...

Stock of SPAC buying Trump’s Truth Social extends plunge after reports Twitter buyout deal is close

Shares of Digital World Acquisition Corp. DWAC, -12.90% tumbled 9.5% toward a six-month low in morning trading Monday, in the wake of reports that Twitter Inc. TWTR, +5.66% may be close to a deal to b...

The stock market selloff still has another 20% to go, says the godfather of liquidity

As the meat of earnings season begins, it’s worth noting what investors have learned so far. The short version is, apart from a few isolated companies (cough, Netflix, cough), not a whole lot: the pro...

Bitcoin Prices Fall as Crypto Market Slammed by Hawkish Fed Expectations

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies dropped Monday as expectations that the Federal Reserve will move aggressively to tighten monetary policy continued to rock the digital asset space. Bitcoin fell mor...

Elon Musk Says Bill Gates has a $500 million short position in Tesla

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is irked at Bill Gates. He doesn’t see how Gates, a leading proponent of sustainable energy, could possibly sell Tesla’s stock short. And Musk says Gates is doing just that. In a t...

Twitter Re-Examines Elon Musk’s Bid, May Be More Receptive to a Deal

Twitter Inc. TWTR 3.93% is re-examining Elon Musk’s $43 billion takeover offer after the billionaire lined up financing for the bid, in a sign the social-media company could be more receptive to a dea...

Facebook Is Broken. Execs Say a Fix Won’t Come Fast.

Meta Platforms, the former Facebook, has come under heavy fire from Congress, regulators, and even its own users, but there has been nothing like the crisis it now faces. Its core business is decelera...

This Is What Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s Other Company Is Worth

Text size The Boring Company, Elon Musk’s tunneling company, just raised more capital. Robyn Beck/Getty Images One of Elon Musk’s companies just got more valuable. No, this isn’t about Tesla (ti...

Opinion: Do poison pills work? A finance expert explains the anti-takeover tool that Twitter hopes will keep Elon Musk at bay

Takeovers are usually friendly affairs. Corporate executives engage in top-secret talks, with one company or group of investors making a bid for another business. After some negotiating, the companies...

Musk Says Twitter’s Board Owns Almost No Stock. Here’s How It Compares With Tesla.

Twitter’s directors are granted $225,000 of restricted stock units, plus at least $50,000 in cash, annually. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Text size Elon Musk questioned Twitter directors’ alignment wit...

Elon Musk Isn’t Going Away if Twitter Rejects Him. Here’s What He Might Pay.

Text size Elon Musk Scott Olson/Getty Images Even if the Twitter board rejects Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s offer to buy the social-media platform, he won’t go away immediately. There is more drama to come. ...

Twitter Is the S&P 500’s Top Performer in April. Nvidia Is the Worst.

Text size Target store shopping carts in Miami. Joe Raedle/Getty Images It’s been a volatile month for stocks as investors have navigated a complex macroeconomic minefield — from rising interest rates...

Tesla stockholders ask judge to silence Elon Musk in ‘funding secured’ fraud case

DETROIT — A group of Tesla shareholders suing CEO Elon Musk over some 2018 tweets about taking the company private is asking a federal judge to order Musk to stop commenting on the case. Lawyers for s...

Opinion: Elon Musk’s bid for Twitter spells trouble for Tesla investors — here’s why

For years, Elon Musk has used hype to prop up Tesla’s stock. It’s worked so well that other companies have followed his lead. But now we think the world has seen that the emperor has no clothes. The a...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk Will Have No Trouble Financing Twitter

Text size Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk at the “Cyber Rodeo” opening party, April 7, 2022, in Austin, Texas. AFP via Getty Images Rich people rarely have to pay cash. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has ...

Recession fears and the stock market — Is it too late to play defense?

Recession fears are on the rise as the Federal Reserve gears up to fight inflation. Many stock-market investors are already playing defense and may wonder if those strategies have more room to run. Bu...

What Is a Poison Pill? Twitter Adopts Defensive Move to Fend Off Elon Musk.

Elon Musk offered to buy Twitter for $43 billion. He currently has a 9.2% stake in Twitter. Photo by Christian Marquardt – Pool/Getty Images Text size Twitter adopted a so-called poison pill Fri...

Will Twitter Accept Elon Musk’s $43 Billion Offer? His Options If Twitter Says No.

Text size Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Patrick Pleul/POOL/AFP via Getty Images Elon Musk, the billionaire businessman, has some options if Twitter rejects his nearly $43 billion bid. Twitter (ticker: TWTR) co...

Elon Musk’s Bid for Twitter Is a Machiavellian Play

On Thursday, market talk was dominated by Elon Musk’s bid for Twitter (TWTR) . I believe Musk will eventually own the company, one way or another. Earlier this week, I wrote about Musk’s p...

Elon Musk Has a Role Model for Taking a Tech Firm Private: Michael Dell

Text size Michael Dell, chairman and chief executive officer of Dell Technologies. Matthew Busch/Bloomberg Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted four words—and a link to a government filing—to tell the world, o...

Musk’s Cannabis-Themed Twitter Offer Looks High but Not Wacky

Text size Elon Musk is offering $54.20 a share for all of Twitter. Al Drago/Bloomberg Elon Musk is offering $54.20 a share for all of Twitter —and you don’t need to work up a discounted cash flow anal...

Elon Musk and Twitter: What Happens Next

Text size Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk could continue to face legal questions over his new stake in Twitter. Win McNamee/Getty Images Elon Musk’s back and forth with Twitter  took another turn this...

Distraction Or Hostile Takeover? Here’s What Analysts Say About Elon Musk’s Offer To Buy Twitter

Topline Shares of Twitter fell on Thursday after Tesla’s billionaire CEO, Elon Musk, offered to buy the company and take it private for roughly $43 billion, a move that some analysts think is just the...

Elon Musk Offers to Acquire All of Twitter Shares at $54.20, TWTR Goes Up

Yuri Molchan Tesla boss has offered to buy up 100% of Twitter stock The Tesla chief and the largest single shareholder of Twitter, Elon Musk, has offered to acquire all shares of the social media gian...

10 Beaten-Down Stocks That Investors Are Starting to Like Again

Text size Zillow is on Barron’s list of stocks regarding which sentiment has begun to improve. Tiffany Hagler-Geard/Bloomberg Twitter stock’s 20% gain since Tesla CEO Elon Musk disclosed his 9% ...

Here’s the playbook if the rest of the world breaks free from the U.S. dollar, says Credit Suisse’s monetary plumbing guru

It’s pretty well accepted that no one knows as much about the plumbing of the world’s financial system as Zoltan Pozsar, global head of short-term interest-rate strategy at Credit Suisse, who was the ...

Dow falls more than 400 points, Nasdaq finishes 2.2% lower as Treasury yields keep surging

Dow industrials and the S&P 500 index book their biggest one-day declines since March on Monday, with energy, tech and other growth names bearing the brunt, as Treasury yields soared and investors...

TWTR Shares Down 3% in Pre-Market After Elon Musk Rejected Twitter Board Seat

Agrawal noted that despite Musk’s decision not to join the company’s board as an active shareholder, his input will still be invaluable in moving the firm forward. The shares of American microblogging...

Netflix and Other Tech Stocks Report Earnings Soon. What to Expect.

Text size Exposure to Russia is a concern for some tech companies this earnings season. Dreamstime The first-quarter tech earnings season is just around the corner, and Wall Street is getting just a w...