By Nandita Bose
U.S. President Donald Trump is not interested in talking with his former ally Elon Musk, amid a bitter feud over the president’s sweeping tax-cut bill, a White House official said on Friday, adding that no phone call between the two men is planned for the day.
A separate White House official had said earlier that Trump and Musk were going to talk to each other on Friday.
Trump, the world’s most powerful leader, and Musk, the world’s richest man, conducted an extraordinary day of hostilities on Thursday – largely over social media – marking a stark end to a close alliance.
Shares in Musk’s Tesla closed down 14% on Thursday, losing about $150 billion in market value in the largest single-day decline in value in the electric vehicle maker’s history. In pre-market trading on Friday they pared some of those losses, rising as much as 5% after the early news that the two men were
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