The shares landed Gates’ net worth at
The Microsoft (MSFT)’s co-founder Bill Gates
recaptured his status, as the world’s richest person, for the first time in two
years on Friday, by topping the Amazon (AMZN)
magazinehouse.us CEO Jeff Bezos, Bloomberg
reported. The shares landed Gates’ net worth at $110 billion, while the Bezos
is at $108.7 billion.
Bill Gates’ surge in the rankings may have been
fueled by the Pentagon signing a $10 billion cloud-computing contract, with
Microsoft instead of the Amazon. On October 25, the deal prompted a surge in
Microsoft (MSFT) shares while the Amazon (AMZN)’s stock tumbled by about 2%
after the announcement.
The Bloomberg Billionaire Index which tracks the
wealth of richest 500 people is updated after US
magazinepot.com markets close on Friday, so
Bill Gates briefly had the upper hand in last month after Amazon reported a
profit decline but the company’s shares pared the decline.
Gates approximately owns only 1% of MSFT shares,
but that 1% is estimated, is to be of the worth around $7.3
malibutimes.net billion. The stock
market boost impacted on Friday, the Bill Gates’ net worth to reach at $110
billion, while impacted the Bezos net worth to reach at $108.7 billion.
The Bezos’s fortune was also hit by following
his divorce from the MacKenzie Bezos, who also received a quarter of their
Amazon’s holdings in that split procedure. Gates actually could have had a
higher net worth, but he has also donated more than $35 billion, since 1994
through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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