Who desires to possess Twitter? Possibly Elon Musk does not. Certain, perhaps he’s inflicting chaos to extract a lower cost from the Twitter board, however he simply as neatly might stroll away altogether and create a Twitter clone. There’s a “60%+ likelihood from our view Musk in the long run walks from the deal and will pay the breakup price,” analyst Dan Ives stated Tuesday.
The board, in different phrases, desires to rid itself of Twitter. I bought a brand new observation from the board Tuesday evening that learn, “The Board and Mr. Musk agreed to a transaction at $54.20 according to proportion. We imagine this settlement is in the most productive hobby of all shareholders. We intend to near the transaction and put into effect the merger settlement.” Key phrases: “Put into effect the merger settlement.” Felony motion turns out most likely.
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