Tesla boss Elon Musk’s six-week stint as the world’s richest individual came to a halt as shares of his enterprise slipped 2.6% on Tuesday. The throne was regained by Amazon chief Jeff Bezos. Tesla’s share value ended the day at $796 per share, erasing $4.58 billion from Elon Musk’s fortune, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Tesla’s shares have plummeted practically 10% given that the initial week of January. On the other hand, Jeff Bezos’ Amazon has noticed its stock value achieve 5% for the duration of the similar period.
Elon Musk’s net worth now stands at $190 billion when that of Jeff Bezos is at $191 billion. The de-throning of Musk was considerably to do with the fall of Tesla’s share value and much less with Amazon’s movement, which itself ended .27% decrease following Tuesday’s trade.
During his reign as the World’s richest man, Elon Musk was noticed fanning the crypto craze with his adore for memes on Twitter. Musk has propelled the value of a lesser-know crypto-currency known as Dogecoin. With his tweets, Musk is credited by numerous for providing Dogecoin value the nudge, assisting it attain .087159 cent. Apart from this, Elon Musk also took an active component in the WallStreetbets saga earlier this year.
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The Tesla and SpaceX boss, along with other prominent investors, was noticed cheering for the retail investors as they took on Wall Street bigwigs when pushing the value of stocks such as GameStop larger every single day. Apart from GameStop, other so-known as ‘meme stocks’ that have zoomed given that Elon Musk came into the frame involve the likes of AMC Entertainment, Naked Brand, Koss, and Nokia amongst other individuals. The most current improvement that has come from Elon Musk’s corner is that Tesla would invest $1.5 million in crypto-currency Bitcoin and would quickly start out accepting payments in Bitcoin. Tesla follows the NASDAQ listed Microstrategy as it plans to hold Bitcoin on its balance sheet. Bitcoin’s value breached $50,000 on Tuesday.
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos has added $884 million to his wealth year-to-date, when Elon Musk has added a huge $20.5 billion. Following them on the wealthy list is Bill Gates with a net worth of $137 billion, French billionaire Bernard Arnault with $116 billion, and Mark Zuckerberg with his $104 billion net worth.