He Pioneer of Electric Vehicles Tesla He sank even more in the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday in the middle of A spectacular dispute Among his boss, Elon Musk, and US President Donald Trump.
By 19h05 gmt, the action lost 14.04% to 285.41 dollarsthat is more than 140,000 million dollars. This fall plays the company below the Symbolic threshold one billion stock capitalization.
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, had threatened Thursday with the possibility of withdrawing All subsidies and contracts Government closed with magnate companies Elon Musk, After the triggered dispute between them by the fiscal plan.
Spacex is the company controlled by Musk with more contracts with the US government.
The most juicy is the one he obtained last April by value of 5.9 billion dollars with the space force for the launch of satellites and missions during the next five years using the Falcon 9 rockets and Falcon Heavy of the company.
Safe communications
Starlink, the SpaceX subsidiary dedicated to telecommunications, also maintains several contracts with the US Executive, from the supply of services to the Ukraine Armed Forces (537 million dollars) to the development of safe communications for the intelligence agencies of the United States.
In turn, Tesla, the company that has provided MUSK for much of its fortune, can also suffer Trump’s anger. In February it was learned that the State Department had reserved 400 million For the purchase of hundreds of units of the `Pick-up ‘Cybertruck truck, although the status of that contract is currently unknown.