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Trump’s victory adds record $64bn to wealth of richest top 10 (www.theguardian.com)
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The wealth of the 10 richest people in the world – a list dominated by US tech billionaires – increased by a record amount after Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election, according to a widely cited index.

The Bloomberg Billionaires Index estimated that the world’s 10 wealthiest people gained nearly $64bn (about £49.5bn) on Wednesday, the largest daily increase since the index began in 2012.

Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, registered the largest increase with a $26.5bn addition to his fortune, which now stands at $290bn. The prominent backer of Trump’s campaign, benefited from a surge in the share price of Tesla, the electric carmaker where he is chief executive and in which he owns a 13% stake.

The gains came as tech business leaders, including Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive of Facebook parent Meta, and Apple’s Tim Cook publicly congratulated Trump on his election win...

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[–] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 65 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Great. It'll trickle down to me any day now!

[–] granolabar@kbin.melroy.org 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you feed the sparrow, it will shit on the workers

[–] Kalkaline@leminal.space 9 points 1 week ago

I got my $244 worth of stock value increase, I'll be a billionaire any day now.