French multinational investment bank and financial services Group, Société Générale (SocGen) said in a recent report that the Nasdaq has lost more than US$7trn in market capitalisation over the past six months.

On 14 April, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk made a final unsolicited bid for Twitter at US$54.20/share. The bid was made after Musk had acquired 9.2% of its shares and declined a seat on the company’s board. However, since then, Twitter has adopted a poison pill approach to prevent him from taking over the company. The details of poison pill approaches differ by company, but it is designed to give a company’s board the option to flood the market with so much newly created shares that a takeover becomes prohibitively expensive.

Amazon, the world's largest online retailer, is in talks to buy US movie studio MGM for c. US$9bn. MGM was forced into bankruptcy about 10 years ago, after piling up debt of c. US$4bn. Marco de Matos has a closer look.

Electric vehicle (EV) and battery manufacturer, Tesla has invested US$1.5bn in cryptocurrency, bitcoin and will have made a c. US$1bn paper profit from this investment, according to a report by Wedbush Securities. Marco de Matos has a closer look. 

Alibaba affiliate, Ant Group’s (Ant’s) listing could turn out to be the biggest initial public offering (IPO) in history as it chases a valuation that would rival the world’s biggest payment firms.

Known for its electric vehicles, expectations are that Tesla’s energy storage business segment has enormous growth potential. It is estimated that this segment’s revenue contribution could jump from FY19’s $1.5bn to an impressive $12.4bn by FY23, crossing the $200bn revenue mark by FY33.