Elon Musk to rely less on loan to buy Twitter bid
Live MintElon Musk notified US regulators on Wednesday that he will rely less on loans in his bid to buy Twitter, as he and partners put $33.5 billion into the deal. Musk said in the regulatory filing that he had new commitments that will allow him to rely less on loans to buy Twitter, but did not specify whether he was reaching into his own pocket for money or had won over others with big stakes in the company. Analysts were concerned about Musk using billions of dollars worth of his Tesla shares to back loans, meaning the electric car company's stock price would be affected by the fortunes of Twitter. Wedbush analyst Dan Ives said in a tweet that Musk changing the Twitter buy financing structure was a "good move" but that the buyout "game of high stakes poker continues."