Last updated: Saturday May 23, 2020 KSA 10:53 – GMT 07:53
Posted on: Saturday May 23, 2020 KSA 09:19 – GMT 06:19
Source: Cairo – Khaled Hosni
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As governments around the world struggle to overcome the violent trauma caused by the emerging Corona Virus pandemic, the numbers indicate that the fortunes of 6 American businessmen among the world’s rich have jumped by more than 19% in the past two months.
The data and figures included in a report by the American Association for Tax Reform and the Program on Inequality of the Institute for Policy Studies, indicate that the fortunes of 6 American businessmen rose from the level of $ 392.2 billion on March 18 to the level of $ 476.7 billion on May 18, an increase of about 75.5 Billion dollars, an increase of about 19.2%.
Whereas the fortunes of 600 billion Americans increased by 14.7% from the level of $ 2.948 trillion to about $ 3.382 trillion, an increase of about 434 billion dollars.
At the top of the list came the American billionaire How Bezos, whose wealth jumped by 30.6%, after adding to his net worth about 34.6 billion dollars, as his wealth rose from 113 billion dollars in mid-March to about 147.6 billion dollars in mid-May.
In second place was billionaire Mark Zuckerberg, who jumped his fortune by 46.2% after adding about $ 25.3 billion to his wealth, which rose from the level of $ 54.7 billion to about $ 80 billion today.
And billionaire Bill Gates came in third place after adding to his wealth about $ 8 billion, an increase of 8.2%, after his wealth rose from $ 98 billion to about $ 106 billion.
In fourth place was American billionaire Larry Ellison, whose wealth rose 11.9%, after adding about $ 7 billion to his wealth, which rose from $ 59 billion to about $ 66 billion.
And billionaire billionaire Warren Buffett came in fifth place after adding to his fortune about 564 million dollars, to increase his wealth by 0.8% from 67.5 billion dollars to about 68.1 billion dollars.
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, was also among the biggest winners in the past two months, which came in sixth after his wealth jumped 48% to about $ 36 billion.
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