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New Delhi: Tesla CEO Elon Musk has once again become the richest person in the world. Musk’s wealth surged in the past 24 hours, taking his total net worth to $187 billion. French billionaire Bernard Arnault, sitting on the number one chair, has slipped to the second place with a net worth of 185 billion dollars. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Elon Musk’s wealth jumped by $6.98 billion within 24 hours. With this, he once again regained his grip on the number one spot.
In the past few days, in view of the boom in Musk’s assets, there were possibilities that he could soon become the number one rich man. Bernard Arnault has become the richest person in the world, leaving behind Elon Musk (Elon Musk), who has been occupying the number-1 position since the year 2021, in the Top-10 Billionaires (Top-10 Billionaires) in December 2022.
In fact, last year proved to be very bad for Musk. His net worth began to decline sharply from the start of the $44 billion Twitter deal and continued until the end of the year. While Elon Musk was the top loser last year, since the beginning of this year his company’s shares have seen an increase in net worth, which is still ongoing.
So far this year, Elon Musk’s wealth has increased by 50.1 billion dollars. However, Bernard Arnault’s wealth has increased by $23.3 billion so far this year, dropping from number one to second place.Shares of Elon Musk’s company Tesla have been seeing continuous growth for the past one week. The price of Tesla shares reached the level of 207.63 dollars per share in the last trading day.
Shares of Musk’s company rose 5.46 percent or $10.75 per share. Let us tell you that since the beginning of the deal with Twitter, it has seen a big decline, then it continued for a long time.Talking about other rich people included in the Top-10 Billionaires List, according to Bloomberg, Jeff Bezos of Amazon remains the third richest person in the world with a net worth of $ 117 billion. Microsoft’s Bill Gates is the fourth richest person with $114 billion, while Warren Buffet is the fifth richest person with $106 billion.
Larry Ellison occupies the sixth position in the list with assets of $ 102 billion, while Steve Ballmer has jumped from the ninth position to the seventh position. His total assets are $89.4 billion. In the list of billionaires, Indian industrialist Mukesh Ambani has continuously registered his presence in the top-10. With a net worth of $81.1 billion, the Reliance chairman is the 10th richest person in the world. His wealth has declined by $ 646 million in the last 24 hours.
Larry Page is at number eight with $ 84.7 billion, while Carlos Slim Helu is at number nine with assets of $ 83.2 billion. On the other hand, Gautam Adani, trapped in the vortex of Hindenburg, is at number 32 in the list of the world’s rich with assets of $ 37.7 billion.
