The richest
man in the whole world has been revealed by Forbes Magazine in its latest
edition of the ranking.
Amazon founder and chief executive,
Jeff Bezos, has been named by Forbes Magazine in its latest edition as the
world’s richest man with 112bn dollar fortune. He replaces Microsoft
co-founder, Bill Gates, who fell back into second place with 90bn dollars.
Forbes calculated that Bezos’s
fortune, which is mostly held in Amazon shares, increased by 39.2bn dollars
over the past year.
The biggest ever one-year gain.
Amazon’s shares have nearly doubled from 846 dollars a share last March to
1,523 dollars per share last night.
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