Elon Musk has lost $9.1bn — and his richest man moniker
Musk’s own tweets are seeing the value of bitcoin, Tesla shares and his fortune plummet
18 May 2021 - 14:23
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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