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Forbes magazine publishes that since last November 3, election day in the United States and whose results keep the world in suspense, the fortunes of the billionaires who command the list increased their fortunes by 28,000 million dollars (more than 3 times the Fortune of Luis Carlos Sarmiento Anguilo, the richest man in Colombia, of 8.700 million dollars, according to Forbes).
On Wednesday, November 4, despite the fact that there was no announcement of the winner of the election, the Nasdaq technology index of the New York Stock Exchange had a behavior of positive numbers.
The magazine notes that on Wednesday the companies that led its appreciation on Wall Street were Amazon (Jeff Bezos, the richest in the world), Facebook (Zuckerberg) and Microsoft (Gates), when the Dow Jones Industrial Average index gained almost 400 points , equivalent to 1.3%; the S&P 500 gained 2.2% and the Nasdaq Composite soared 3.9%, on par with the fortunes of these tycoons.
This is the list of the 10 richest men in the United States:
- Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazo: $ 179 billion. B
- Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft: $ 111 billion.
- Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook: $ 85 billion.
- Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway investor: $ 73.5 billion.
- Larry Ellison, founder of Oracle: $ 72 billion.
- Steve Ballmer, Microsoft: $ 69 billion.
- Elon Musk, founder of Tesla and SpaceX: $ 68 billion.
- Larry Page, co-founder of Google: $ 67.5 billion.
- Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google: $ 65.7 billion. B
- Alice Walton, Walmart: $ 62.3 billion.
Amazon, the company of the richest man in the United States and on the planet, and which offers jobs in Colombia, continues to triumph in the pandemic, which has drawn a very favorable outlook for its Internet sales business, and this Thursday presented some Third-quarter data that far exceeded Wall Street expectations, while forecasting record-breaking Christmas sales to end 2020.
The digital commerce giant achieved in the first nine months of 2020 a net profit of 14,109 million dollars, which represents an increase of 69% compared to the 8,320 million of the same period of the previous year.
Amazon’s sales through September stood at 260,509 million dollars, 35% more compared to 193,086 millions that you recorded in the first nine months of 2019.
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