Musk's Twitter Deal Threats Put New Financing on Ice - Sources

StreetInsider2022-06-08

Elon Musk's efforts to arrange new financing that will limit his cash contribution to his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter Inc have been put on hold because of the uncertainty surrounding the deal, ...

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