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Business News/ Companies / People/  Jeff Bezos loses $5.3 billion, Warren Buffett $3.5 billion after markets rout
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Jeff Bezos loses $5.3 billion, Warren Buffett $3.5 billion after markets rout

Swooning markets on Thursday cost the world's 500 richest people $93 billion in net worth, and 20 of them lost at least $1 billion each

Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest person, saw his fortune drop by $5.3 billion to $113.2 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, as his Amazon.com tumbled 4.7% on Thursday. Photo: BloombergPremium
Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest person, saw his fortune drop by $5.3 billion to $113.2 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, as his Amazon.com tumbled 4.7% on Thursday. Photo: Bloomberg

New York: Swooning markets Thursday cost the world’s 500 richest people $93 billion in net worth, and 20 of them lost at least $1 billion each.

Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest person, saw his fortune drop by $5.3 billion to $113.2 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, as his Amazon.com Inc. tumbled 4.7% on the day. Berkshire Hathaway Inc. chairman Warren Buffett ’s wealth dropped $3.5 billion and Facebook Inc.’s Mark Zuckerberg lost $3.4 billion.

Elon Musk came back to Earth, dropping $1.1 billion in net worth after his Space Exploration Technologies Corp. successfully launched a Tesla Inc. sports car on a journey around the sun. Shares of Tesla, which he also leads, plunged 8.6%.

Also Read: Dow Jones falls over 1000 points as US stocks enter correction

The Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 Index both tumbled to their lowest levels since November as fears of rising interest rates and inflation intensified. Bloomberg

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Published: 09 Feb 2018, 09:06 AM IST
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