Driven by the growth of Tesla shares and the brand new X, Elon Musk was ranked first in the prestigious world ranking.
In the same week that the change of identity of Twitterwhich will be renamed xthe ranking of Forbes updated its list of top billionaires, where Elon Musk returned to number 1. The momentum of the last few days has also pushed the value of the Dogecointhe favorite cryptocurrency of the 52-year-old South African businessman.
The first place was headed by the French bernard arnaultexecutive director of LVMH, the largest global luxury goods group, including perfumes, watches, jewelry, spirits and apparel. However, the growth of the last weeks of Elon Muskthat increased his net worth by more than 1.75%propelled it to the number 1 position by reaching the sum of 240.7 billion dollars. Simultaneously, the falls in the shares of LVMH caused a decrease of 1% in the value of their assets, until they were in the $234.9 billion.
The increase in the valuation of its patrimony is given by the increase in the shares of Tesla -which is dedicated to producing alternative energy sources and electric vehicles-, which rose more than one 2.5% a little more than 266 dollars on Monday morning, after the announcement of a special loan financing to seven years for new customers of Tesla.
The news represents a boost to Muskwhose main company lost about 18,000 million dollars last Thursday due to the collapse of the shares of Tesla after a disappointing quarterly earnings report.
For his part, the third place in this list of the richest people in the world is held by the founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, with a fortune of 151.900 million dollars; while in fourth place is the American Larry Ellisonco-founder of digital platform company Oracle. His fortune exceeds $148.5 billion.
Source: Ambito
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