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Musk’s brazen gambit collapsed as investor support withered

Bloomberg Elon Musk’s stunning tweet that he wanted to take Tesla Inc. private and had funding secured was a classic Musk moonshot — given credibility only by the sense that if anyone could possibly pull such a brazen feat, he was the guy. The initial scoffing after that August 7 post gave way to hiring of bankers to a board ...

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China’s tech growth is getting more expensive

China’s consumer growth is a key plank underpinning the investment thesis for many of the country’s big technology companies. But the torrent of revenue from domestic customers is getting expe- nsive, forcing the likes of Tencent Holdings Ltd, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd and Sina Corp to pony up more cash just to keep the numbers humming along at the accustomed ...

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Four Fed hikes isn’t set in stone

Remarks by Fed officials at the symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, confirmed the consensus market expectation that the US central bank will hike interest rates two more times this year, delivering the biggest annual tightening in more than a decade. The increases would be carried out even as the Fed is reducing the size of its $4 trillion balance sheets. ...

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