The benefits of the president of the Diamond Princess cruise company, quarantined off the Japanese coast, fell $ 1 billion this week.
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The combined fortunes of the 500 richest people of the planet fell in 444,000 million of dollars for the coronavirus outbreak, which continues to spread and shake the world stock markets, reports Bloomberg.
The losses exceeded the profits of 78,000 million of dollars, which these billionaires had accumulated from the beginning of the year until last week.
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The biggest losses – around 30,000 million dollars – suffered by the three people who head the Bloomberg Billionaires Index: Jeff Bezos, the executive director of Amazon; Bill gates, the co-founder of Microsoft and Bernard Arnault, the president of the French multinational conglomerate LVMH.
Elon musk, which is number 25, recorded the fourth largest weekly loss, 9,000 million of dollars, as the shares of its electric vehicle company, Tesla, fell after a sharp rise earlier this year. Despite that, his fortune increased $ 8.8 billion in 2020 and has a net capital of 36.3 billion of dollars.
Micky Arison, president of the world’s largest cruise operator, Carnival Corporation, lost 1 billion of dollars this week, after your company’s vessel, the Diamond princess, docked off the Japanese coast, was quarantined. So far, it is confirmed that 705 passengers and cruise crew had covid-19 and six of those people died.
The 80% of the billionaires in the ‘ranking’ suffered losses.
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