Almost 40 days have passed since Elon Musk reported that his $44 billion bid

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Twitter was "briefly waiting," and apparently the different sides are still in an impasse.

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During a far off Q&A at Bloomberg's Qatar Economic Forum on Tuesday

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What musk declared "there are as yet a couple of unsettled matters"

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the arrangement going through, including whether Twitter's investors will endorse it.

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The comment came around the same time that Twitter's load up consistently prescribed investors support Musk's

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Musk's offered to purchase the organization in a SEC recording

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"The consolidation arrangement is prudent and the consolidation and different exchanges pondered by the consolidation understanding

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Musk's long stretches of slowing down have driven numerous to conjecture

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"A downturn is inescapable sooner or later," he told participants of the Bloomberg occasion

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