week for big tech. plus a pre halloween treat as the us economy returns to growth. but inflation s still a nightmare for president biden with midterm elections looming. we start with the world s richest man: billionaire boss of tesla space entrepreneur and now the new owner of twitter. elon musk has now closed his $41; billion takeover of the social media giant ahead of a 5pm deadline set by a us court. and he has moved quickly to sack the company s senior management. it brings to an end a six month long and often bad tempered takeover battle that has raised some big questions about the future of the company. from san francisco here s our technology correspondent james clayton. when elon musk had an offer to buy a twitter accepted in april, he could barely conceal his excitement. but that initial enthusiasm soon began to wane. tech stocks were plummeting and many wondered whether he d paid too much for twitter. mr musk also claimed that twitter was filled with fake