Richest people in the world lost per day, $114 billion
Baku, February 6, AZERTAC
A sharp drop in U.S. stock markets has hit the wallets of the richest people in the world, according to world.24-my.info. More all eventually lost to Warren Buffett.
Due to a sharp fall in U.S. stock markets on Monday, 500 of the richest people in the world has missed 114 billion dollars of their assets. This is according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index (BBI).
As noted, the main US stock indexes on Monday fell by 3.8-4.6 per cent amid concerns about rising yields of US bonds, Dow Jones and S&P 500 revoked thus all growth for 2018.
In the end, for most of the day decreased as the head of investment company Berkshire Hathaway Warren Buffett - he lost 5.1 billion dollars. The second largest fall was ranked as the founder of FB Facebook Inc Mark Zuckerberg - has decreased by 3.6 billion dollars . Founder of Amazon Jeff Bezos is ranked third in size suffered a day of losses - they amounted to 3.3 billion dollars.
Followed by Google co-founders Larry page and Sergey Brin, who lost for a day on 2,3 billion dollars. As the founder of Microsoft Bill Gates lost Monday’s 2.25 billion dollars.
In General, according to Bloomberg, the top five billionaires has not changed: on the first line is Bezos with the as 116 billion dollars, the second gates as at 91.6 billion, third place in the list is Buffett with 85 billions of dollars. In fourth place was Zuckerberg, whose fortune is estimated at 74.7 billion.
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