Hey everybody, Rob Mauer here. Welcome back to Tesla Daily. Today we have quite a bit

to go through. We'll start off with Twitter, of course Elon Musk's bid for Twitter has

been accepted by the Twitter board of directors. Tesla stock took a little bit of a hit

as that news was coming out. We'll talk about that. Then we also have a number of leaked

text messages from Elon Musk both in regard to the funding secured saga and also Bill Gates

shorting Tesla. Then we also have a handful of other stories as well.

Looking at the market's Tesla today starting off the week with a pretty significant

underperformance finishing down seven tenths of a percent to close at $998.2, while the

NASDAQ was up 1.3% on the day. Tesla had been trading a little bit below the NASDAQ for

most of the day but definitely took a bigger hit when the Twitter deal was announced.

We'll talk a little bit more about that in a second but just as far as the market is concerned,

this is a big week for tech earnings. So Google earnings are on Tuesday, meta, slash

Facebook on Wednesday, Amazon on Thursday and Apple on Thursday as well. So those results

will be heavily influential on how the NASDAQ overall is trading. I think the Amazon earnings

could be potentially a little bit concerning in terms of how they affect the overall market

because as we talked about last quarter, Amazon was boosted significantly by the valuation

of Rivian at that time and Rivian since then has tanked. They're going to have to mark

that down. That'll have a significant negative impact on their earnings per share that

their report. So hopefully that's priced in. Hopefully that's expected. But the same

situation in reverse last quarter seemed to help a little bit. So we'll see. The same

is also going to apply for Ford when they report earnings as well. All right. So getting

to the Twitter news Twitter announced an oppressed release about an hour before market close

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