London — Elon Musk’s Twitter posts keep sending bitcoin prices tumbling. His own fortune is heading in the same direction.

On Monday, Tesla’s CEO lost his spot as the world’s second-richest person to LVMH chair Bernard Arnault as the electric vehicle-maker’s shares fell 2.2%. That was on top of last week’s slump amid a rout in tech stocks and fresh signs of trouble in its China business...

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