BackTech billionaires lose $7.6 billion as stocks tumble
Billionaire founders of Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google owner Alphabet see $7.6 billion wiped from their fortunes as Nasdaq 100 suffers its worst drop in three months
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New York: The billionaire founders of Facebook Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Netflix Inc. and Google owner Alphabet Inc. saw $7.6 billion wiped from their fortunes on Wednesday as the Nasdaq 100 suffered its worst drop in three months.
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg fell the most, dropping $2.9 billion on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, while Jeff Bezos’s short-lived reign as the $100 billion man ended after a tumble in Amazon.com Inc. shares knocked $2.5 billion off his net worth.
Alphabet’s Sergey Brin and Larry Page fell almost $1 billion each, while Netflix’s Reed Hastings shed $133 million.
The decline in the so-called FANG stocks came after traders flocked to firms seen benefiting more from a potential reduction in the corporate-tax rate. Technology stocks enjoy an 18.5% effective-tax rate—the third-lowest among US large caps, according to S&P Global data—which means less potential bounty should the Republican legislation move through Congress. Bloomberg
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