The Executive Director of Tesla, Elon Musk, he lost a large sum of money, a severe blow to his capital. This time, $ 27,000 their fortunes declined as the carmaker’s shares fell in the sale of shares.
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The net worth of Musk, which amounts to 156.9 billion dollars continue to place it as the second richest in the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, But now he has $ 20,000 under Jeff Bezos.
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At the end of February, Musk also lost $ 15.2 billion in one day., due to Bitcoin blocking. This move caused Tesla shares to fall by 8.6% in one day. In fact, a tril in which Musk claimed that a few weeks ago Tesla, one of the best performing companies on the world stock exchange, acquired 1.5 billion bitcoins, generated nervousness in the market, which caused this fall.
(In context: Musk lost $ 15.2 billion and is no longer the richest man in the world.)
Since then, he has ceased to be the richest person in the world, a distinction that Jeff Bezos, the Amazon tycoon, occupies again.
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A frothy height
Billionaires Elon Musk (left) and Jeff Bezos
Michael Reynolds. EFE / Frederic J. Brown. AFP
In 2020, the millionaire Musk set a record because he had one of the fastest traces of wealth accumulation in history. Last year, Tesla shares up 743% after millions of dollars were unlocked through the historical compensation package called “Moonshot”.
In January of this year, Musk had overtaken Bezos on steady quarterly earnings and Joe Biden Trump, due to the impetus of the current President of the United States to Clean technologies.
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However, the steady decline in the Nasdaq index has also caused these strong blows in the businessman’s capital.
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