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Wall Street Breakfast

Musk Announces New Chief Twit, Tesla Rises

Wall Street Breakfast

Seeking Alpha

Business News, News, Business, Investing

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Elon Musk says he's picked a new Twitter CEO; Tesla (TSLA) shares jump (00:46). PacWest (PACW) stock resumes drop after pledging more collateral to discount window (05:03) . J&J (JNJ) talc victim group seeking $30B in fraudulent conveyance complaint (04:07).

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0:00.0

Welcome to Seeking Alpha's Wall Street breakfast, where we cover the top news for investors every morning.

0:07.0

Good morning. Today is Friday, May 12th, and I'm your host Julie Morgan.

0:11.0

Elon Musk makes a surprise announcement.

0:14.5

He says he's found a new Twitter CEO.

0:17.2

Tesla investors react positively.

0:20.3

The meeting between Biden and congressional now set for next week.

0:28.0

Peloton announces a recall following the announcement the stock drop nearly 9%.

0:34.0

As we get into the show remember you can always find the links to all the stories we talk about on the show in show notes

0:41.0

and our daily Seeking Alpha Wall Street breakfast articles.

0:46.0

Elon Musk announced that he's hired a new CEO to lead Twitter, a new chief twit.

0:51.4

He tweeted Thursday afternoon that she will be starting in about six weeks.

0:56.2

Of course the digging began as soon as the announcement was made.

0:59.7

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that NBC Universal ad chief Linda

1:04.0

Yacharino is in talks to become Twitter's next CEO. Yacharino interviewed

1:08.7

Musk on stage at an event last month. In the tweet the Tesla CEO went on to say that his role would transition to be an executive

1:16.8

chair and chief technology officer.

1:19.5

Following the announcement, the Tesla stock jumped 2.6% on Thursday and closed the day up 2.1% and is up 1.3% pre-market.

1:30.0

This is definitely a story that has you talking in the comments on Seeking Alpha.

1:34.5

More than 125 comments thus far, including exactly what Twitter needed, and now Tesla can make

1:40.9

us money again.

1:42.2

Be sure to leave your comment as well.

1:45.2

The US debt limit gathering initially set for today

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