Morgan Stanley was stuck with billions of dollars of unloved debt tied to Elon Musk’s controversial 2022 buyout of social-media platform Twitter Inc. It took one election and a billionaire bromance to flip the script.
Federal agencies have offered exits to millions of employees and tested the prowess of engineers — just like when Elon Musk bought Twitter. The similarities have been uncanny.
Elon Musk, X and Wall Street
Banks are preparing to sell off debt used to help Elon Musk purchase X as the tech tycoon tells employees the company is “barely breaking even.” According to reporting from The Wall Street Journal, bankers at Morgan Stanley are planning to offload roughly $3bn in debt during a sale next week and are already contacting investors.
The other tidbit that seems to have investors very excited is Musk’s promise that the company’s Cybercab Robotaxi, which we saw at a preview event last year, will go into volume production and start a paid passenger-carrying service in Austin, Texas, in June 2025. No additional detail on the service, or the vehicle itself, was provided beyond that.
A group of banks led by Morgan Stanley is preparing to sell as much as $3 billion of senior debt tied to Elon Musk’s buyout of X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
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Bankers are reportedly gearing up to offload debt used to fund Elon Musk’s social network, for which he paid $44 billion in 2022, including $13 billion in
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(Reuters) - Michael Grimes, a technology banker with Morgan Stanley, is in talks to leave the bank for a position in U.S. President Donald Trump's administration, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the discussions.
Wall Street banks, including Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS), Bank of America, and Barclays (LON:BARC), are gearing up to sell a substantial portion of debt holdings in X, the social-media platform controlled by Elon Musk,