America’s 10 richest have increased their fortunes

Forbes magazine publishes that since last November 3, the day of the elections in the United States and whose results keep the world in suspense, the fortune of the billionaires who command the list has increased their fortunes by 28,000 million dollars (more than 3 times the Fortuna of Luis Carlos Sarmiento Anguilo, the richest man in Colombia, of 8,700 million dollars, according to Forbes).

On Wednesday, November 4, despite the election winner not being announced, the New York Stock Exchange’s Nasdaq technology index performed positively.

The magazine notes that the companies that brought its appreciation to Wall Street on Wednesday were Amazon (Jeff Bezos, the richest in the world), Facebook (Zuckerberg) and Microsoft (Gates), when the Dow Jones Industrial Average index gained. nearly 400 points, or 1.3%; the S&P 500 gained 2.2% and the Nasdaq Composite was up 3.9%, on par with the fortunes of these tycoons.

This is the list of the 10 richest men in the United States:

1. Jeff Bezos, Amazo founder: $ 179 billion. B.
2. Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft: $ 111 billion.
3. Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook: $ 85 billion.
4. Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway investor: $ 73.5 billion.
5. Larry Ellison, founder of Oracle: $ 72 billion.
6. Steve Ballmer, Microsoft: $ 69 billion.
7. Elon Musk, founder of Tesla and SpaceX: 68 billion dollars.
8. Larry Page, Google co-founder: $ 67.5 billion.
9. Google co-founder Sergey Brin: $ 65.7 billion. B.
10. Alice Walton, Walmart: $ 62.3 billion.

Amazon, the company of the richest man in the United States and the planet, and offering jobs in Colombia, continues to triumph in the pandemic, which has charted very favorable prospects for its Internet sales business, and this Thursday presented some. some Q3 figures that far exceeded Wall Street expectations, while forecasting record Christmas sales by the end of 2020.

In the first nine months of 2020, the giant of digital commerce made a net profit of 14,109 million dollars, an increase of 69% compared to 8,320 million from the same period of the previous year.

Amazon’s sales through September stood at 260,509 million dollars, 35% more than 193,086 millions that you registered in the first nine months of 2019.