{"id":238922,"date":"2022-05-05T15:30:59","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T15:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/why-tesla-stock-crashed-today"},"modified":"2022-05-05T15:30:59","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T15:30:59","slug":"why-tesla-stock-crashed-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/why-tesla-stock-crashed-today","title":{"rendered":"Why Tesla Stock Crashed Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What happened Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) stock crashed hard on Thursday, down 6.2% at 10:35 a.m. ET, breaking a three-day winning streak of rising stock prices for the leader in electric cars . So what The most likely culprit for Tesla&#8217;s decline today? That&#8217;s still &#8220;volatility.&#8221; And case in point, Tesla stock was down yesterday morning , too, before ending up sharply higher by the close of trading. But there&#8217;s actual news concerning Tesla today, too. For one thing, Elon Musk has confirmed that he plans to serve as CEO of Twitter (NYSE: TWTR) after he completes his buyout of the company. Tesla investors today might be concerned that taking over full managerial control of a social network will distract Musk from what they consider his primary job: running Tesla. There&#8217;s also word today that Musk has decided to bring in outside investors to help pony up some of the cash he will need to buy Twitter in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The stock market&#8217;s in the red, and Elon&#8217;s in the news again with Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-stocks"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}