The 10 richest people in the world obtained record profits of $64 billion (about 59,653 million euros) together after Republican Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential elections was certified on Wednesday, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
This ranking, which daily monitors changes in the assets of the planet’s ‘super-rich’, reflects that The biggest beneficiary of Trump’s victory was the CEO of Tesla and X, Elon Muskwhose fortune rose by $26.5 billion to $290 billion on Wednesday.
Bloomberg points out that it is the “largest daily increase” of wealth for the super-rich that has been observed since the index began to be compiled in 2012.
In addition to Muskstaunch defender of Trump’s candidacy in recent months and possible member of the magnate’s next presidential cabinetother personalities from the technology sector stand out on this list.
Jeff Bezosfounder of Amazon and second richest person in the world, added $7 billion to his fortune, now close to $230 billion.
For its part, Larry Ellisonpresident of the software company Oracle and also declared trumpistincreased its assets by almost 10,000 million dollars, to 193,000 million dollars.
Former Microsoft executives were also reinforced, Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer; the former heads of Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brinand the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett, who rode this wave, despite not having commented on their preferred candidate during the campaign.
The only member of the world’s economic elite to lose money on Wednesday was French luxury brand magnate Bernard Arnault, whose fortune fell by almost $3 billion.
In addition, the assets of the CEO of Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, slightly reduced by 81 million dollarsalthough it is still worth 202,000 million.
Trump even threatened in August to imprison Zuckerberg for life for allegedly plotting against him in the 2020 election.
These were the percentage changes in the world’s largest fortunes in the 24 hours after Trump was elected the 47th US president, according to Bloomberg.
1. Elon Musk $290 billion (+10.1%)
2. Jeff Bezos $228.3 billion (+3.2%)
3. Mark Zuckerberg $202.5 billion (0%)
4. Larry Ellison $193.5 billion (+5.4%)
5. Bernard Arnault $173.2 billion (-1.6%)
6. Bill Gates $159.5 billion (+1.2%)
7. Larry Page $158.3 billion (+3.6%)
8. Sergey Brin $149.1 billion (+3.6%)
9. Warren Buffett $147.8 billion (+5.4%)
10. Steve Ballmer $145.9 billion (+2%).