$55.8 billion. that was the record pay day for elon musk in 2018. but today a judge in the us state of delaware said it should be scrapped. the pay deal was the biggest ever in us corporate history and propelled mr musk to the top of the list of the world s richest people. butjudge kathaleen mccormick said the payout was unfathomable . and could put his title as the world s richest man at risk. figures from bloomberg and forbes suggest his net worth is between $198 billion and $220 billion. the pay was from his electric car company tesla and was linked to performance targets, such as tesla s share price and profitability. and if you look at that measure well, the value of the company did soar, topping $1 trillion in 2021, up from $50 billion when the pay deal was originally negotiated. mr musk sold a large chunk of tesla to buy twitter. meaning how owns around 13% of the electric carmaker. cancelling his pay deal means he also misses out on more than 300 million tesla sh
beaten a record set by open air chat app, signing up more than 100 million users in under five days. now, it was just last wednesday that threads went live on apple and android app stores in 100 countries. meta boss mark zuckerberg said he couldn t believe the milestone had been reached so fast, but it feels like lots of people are already on it. well, that s partly because it s connected to instagram. meta, remember isn t creating an app from scratch. it s benefiting from its two billion instagram followers, and that s giving it a massive shot in the arm. analysts are calling this the first serious threat to the elon musk owned twitter. according to similarweb, twitter s web traffic was down 11% from the year prior. that s in the days immediately after threads launch. it s worth remembering threads is not the first attempt to challenge the micro blogging app, but others such as mastodon, blue sky and truth social, well, they all remain still pretty small right now. as histor
and it is now considering an executive order to curb us investment in sensitive areas. but ms yellen told her chinese counterparts that any such measures will be highly targeted. i emphasise that it would be highly targeted and clearly directed narrowly at a few sectors where we have specific national security concerns. i want to allay their fears that we would do something that would have broad based impacts on the chinese economy. that s not the case. that s not the intention. and i think this is an example of what i said about how to address national security concerns. senior market analyst kelvin wong told me that ms yellen did manage to smooth relations on the economic front. if you look at the us treasury secretary yellen, i believe that she is more pragmatic. so, all in all, i would like to state that ms yellen actually had a positive outcome in terms of economic communication between the us and china, but, however, on the general political front, i still reckon that i
given these comments by the federal chair. based on the meeting today, i would tell you that i don t think it s likely that the committee will reach a level of confidence by the time of the march meeting to identify march as the time to do that. but that is to be seen. mr powell s words disappointed us on wall street who believed that the first cut would potentially happen in march. this is after policymakers back in december hinted at rate cuts in 202a. however, mr powell said officials wanted greater confidence that inflation was falling back to its 2% goal first. with prices coming down but still high and with the economy doing well, david ross believes that this is the right call telling me thatjerome powell has no reason to show his hand at this point. the rate decision comes after fresh data showing us economic growth slowed down in the last quarter, but performed much better than forecasters expected. let s turn our focus now to social media because the bosses of compa
by the federal chair. based on the meeting today, i would tell you that i don t think it s likely that the committee will reach a level of confidence by the time of the march meeting to identify march as the time to do that. but that is to be seen. mr powell s words disappointed us on wall street who believed that the first cut would potentially happen in march. this is after policymakers back in december hinted at rate cuts in 202a. however, mr powell said officials wanted greater confidence that inflation was falling back to its 2% goal first. with prices coming down but still high and with the economy doing well, david ross at trade station believes that this is the right call telling mejerome powell has no reason to show his hand at this point. the rate decision comes after fresh data showing us economic growth slowed down in the last quarter, but performed much better than forecasters expected. now to other stories making headlines. boeing boss dave calhoun has admitted