How tweets by Tesla's Elon Musk have moved markets


FILE PHOTO Tesla CEO Elon Musk gestures as he visits the construction site of Teslas Gigafactory in Gruenheide near Berlin Germany August 13 2021. Patrick PleulPool via Reuters

FILE PHOTO: Tesla CEO Elon Musk gestures as he visits the construction site of Tesla's Gigafactory in Gruenheide near Berlin, Germany, August 13, 2021. Patrick Pleul/Pool via Reuters

(Reuters) - Shares of Tesla Inc fell on Monday as chief Elon Musk, known for his Twitter banter, proposed the sale of about a tenth of his holdings in the electric-car maker after conducting a poll on the social network.

The poll asking Musk's over 62.5 million followers if he should sell stock garnered more than 3.5 million votes, with 57.9% of the people voting "yes".

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