Elon Musk sells $5bn in Tesla stock days after Twitter poll
by Guardian staff and agencies from Technology | The Guardian on (#5RS0X)
Billionaire offloads around 3% of his holding - though $1.1bn was already in train before he asked Twitter about reducing stake
Elon Musk has sold about $5bn in shares amounting to roughly 3% of his Tesla holdings, the billionaire reported in filings on Wednesday, just days after he polled Twitter users about selling 10% of his stake.
About $4bn worth of the sale - 3.6m shares - could be considered as counting towards his 10% pledge on Twitter. Another $1.1bn worth, amounting to 934,000 shares, was sold under an options arrangement to acquire nearly 2.2m shares that was already in train before the poll.
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