Is There a Leverage Buy Out?

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There's still a lot of question, mikes. We don't know exactly how mask is going to come up with a 21 billion dollar recuidy. Is he going to sell a part of his shares in tesla or liquidate some of his crypto currency? That might change once there'sa new regulatory filing. I've also been told that he's likely to try to bring on board a bunch of other wealthy individuals or institution vestors work and of interestedin participating in in the deal with him. There's a lot of speculation that jack dorsy, the cofounder of twitter, at least on the social media platform, could be partnering with him in some way or the

EU member states are looking at whether to impose a ceiling on what they would pay for Russian oil as a way to hit Kremlin revenues, Twitter’s board has accepted a roughly $44bn offer to sell the company to Elon Musk that would result in the world’s richest man seizing control of the influential social media platform, and French President Emmanuel Macron faces much tougher challenges in his second term in office.

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EU weighs cap on price paid for Russian oil as way to hit Kremlin revenues

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Macron faces a complex economic juggling act

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