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Musk Finds Humor in Tesla’s $420 Stock Getting ‘So High’

  • Billionaire referred to weed-linked price in take-private post
  • Over 500 days later, shares climb above level for first time
Tesla Ends 2019 on High Note
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Elon Musk is getting a laugh out of a 503-day-old marijuana joke that securities regulators didn’t find so funny.

Tesla Inc. climbed above $420 for the first time Monday as fresh financing arranged from banks in China added to optimism supporting a months-long rally. Musk, who was sued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission last year for falsely tweeting he had funding to take the company private at that price, cracked a joke about the milestone on his favorite social-media platform.