{"id":397374,"date":"2023-12-30T02:12:17","date_gmt":"2023-12-29T20:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.com\/?p=397374"},"modified":"2023-12-30T02:12:27","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T20:42:27","slug":"musk-returns-as-worlds-richest-man-net-worth-of-richest-persons-up-1-5-trillion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2023\/12\/30\/musk-returns-as-worlds-richest-man-net-worth-of-richest-persons-up-1-5-trillion\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk returns as world\u2019s richest man; net worth of richest persons up $1.5 trillion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has returned as the world\u2019s richest man, recapturing the title from French luxury tycoon Bernard Arnault.<br>Musk earned an additional $95.4 billion through Thursday\u2019s close, boosted by the success of Tesla and SpaceX, after losing $138 billion in 2022, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>His net worth now exceeds Arnault\u2019s by more than $50 billion after LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE shares fell due to a global slowdown in demand for luxury products.<br>As per the Index, Musk\u2019s net worth is now estimated to be $232 billion. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos added more than $70 billion to his wallet this year and is now neck-and-neck with Arnault for second place, while Meta Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s fortune increased by more than $80 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Arnault is the second richest in the world with net worth of $179 billion, followed by Bezos ($178 billion), Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates ($141 billion), ex-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer ($131 billion), and Zuckerberg ($130 billion). According to the Index, the collective net worth of the 500 richest persons increased by $1.5 trillion in 2023, entirely recovering from the $1.4 trillion lost the previous year.<br>The wealth of tech billionaires increased by 48 per cent, or $658 billion, because to the enormous buzz around artificial intelligence. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has returned as the world\u2019s richest man, recapturing the title from French luxury tycoon Bernard Arnault.Musk earned an additional $95.4 billion through Thursday\u2019s close, boosted by the success of Tesla and SpaceX, after losing $138 billion in 2022, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. His net worth now exceeds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":397423,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-397374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}