The top ten net worths exceed $100,000 million for the first time

more and richer. The planet’s great fortunes are gaining weight quarterly quarterly at an accelerating pace and have reached a new historical stage, on track to complete the first half of 2023. For the first time, the top ten assets, individually, pass the level for $100,000 million. Something that just a couple of years ago was within the reach of two or three people.

The cumulative wealth of the top 10 richest people in the world is just over $1.4 trillion (European), which is roughly equivalent to gross domestic product Spain face value in 2022.

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The comparison that also helps in calibrating the amounts under the control of the richest is the one created in relation to the volume of Spanish stock market. The combined assets of the ten richest companies are 2.6 times the capital of all the companies that are part of it IBEX 35.

It is precisely the stock market that is performing well technological values So far this year, which led to the development High ill In 2023 it was the most special. Top ten list updated daily bloomberg They have added to their coffers just over $395,000 million (about 360,000 million euros) since January, 73% of the current capitalization of the Spanish Selective Index.

Arno, the only non-American

Soon after the correction, the tech sectors once again monopolized practically all of this select list of high net worths, with just two exceptions: Bernard Arnaultthe major shareholder in the luxury manufacturer LVMH (Louis Vuitton, Moet Chandon, etc.) and the investor Warren BuffettWith a broad and diversified portfolio.

The same applies to the United States and the nationality of the richest. In this case, Arnault is the lone exception, though he came to lead the big net worth rating, before the electric car maker’s stock market revival. Tesla.

Almost 100,000 million in six months

This circumstance restored the throne to its founder and first shareholder, Elon Muskwith an account capital of 236.000 million dollars (about 215.000 million euros, twice the current capitalization of Inditex, which is close to an all-time high). After the stormy takeover of Twitterthe eccentric American businessman has re-emerged as the undisputed leader of the planet’s great fortunes, buoyed by the more than remarkable revival of Tesla in Wall Street Since the beginning of the year, it’s estimated at more than 114%, fattening its owner’s wallet by nearly $100,000 million in the past six months alone.

Thus, Musk is able to overtake the aforementioned Arno by more than 40,000 million, and nearly 85,000 million others came to lead the list, Jeff BezosFounder and former CEO, Inc Amazon. Thanks to the 47% surge experienced by the global e-commerce giant, the assets of a site owner The New York Times It added nearly an additional $50 billion. These three names are the only ones to exceed $150,000 million.

However, if the revival of this relationship is to be highlighted for the world’s highest legacies, the name of Mark Zuckerberg He must be above the rest. creator Facebooktoday under the name Meta platformsreturned to the top ten after the collapse of the company in the stock market, which led to its decline to the 25th place.

to find Bill Gatesone of the founders Microsoft And who led this rating for so long, you need to go to the fifth position. Ironically, the person who was its CEO Steve Ballmer Already on the heels of the next. oracle builder, Larry Ellisonand parents GoogleAnd Sergey Brin And I see the pagecomplete the “top ten”.

Although he is still somewhat distant from this leading group, one of the current names is that of the American of Taiwanese origin. Jensen Huangas it was among the top ten that increased its wealth by the most since January, at 24,000 million euros.

up front nvidiathe company he founded three decades ago, Huang nearly tripled his personal fortune in just six months thanks to Maker’s massive investor support. Semiconductors and its ambitious commitment to artificial intelligence.

Currently, Huang is 34th on the Bloomberg list, when at the end of 2022 he was not among the top 125 people.

Back on the backs of the cap

Also among the most prominent so far in 2023 is Amancio Ortegathe founder and majority shareholder of Inditex, which managed to get back into the top 15, paying a price close to the cap for the company now headed by his youngest daughter, Marta.

Of course, Ortega, who in his day flirted with the throne of great global wealth, is already looking at the “top ten” from afar, given that his fortune is 30,000 million less than that of Zuckerberg, the tenth on the list. For a catch to get even, he has to hit him by more than three.