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Elon Musk Sends April Fools' Tweets Joking of Tesla Bankruptcy

Bloomberg’s Ramy Inocencio discusses the plunge in Tesla’s market cap, and Elon Musk’s April Fool’s joke.(Source: Bloomberg)
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After the worst month for Tesla Inc. shares in more than seven years, punctuated by company blog posts about the death of a Model X driver, Elon Musk is joking about his electric-car maker going bankrupt.

“Despite intense efforts to raise money, including a last-ditch mass sale of Easter Eggs, we are sad to report that Tesla has gone completely and totally bankrupt,” the chief executive officer wrote in an April Fools’ Day tweet on Sunday. Another post included a photo of Musk and a message that he “was found passed out against a Tesla Model 3, surrounded by ‘Teslaquilla’ bottles, the tracks of dried tears still visible on his cheeks.”