zaterdag 28 april 2018

$12 Billion in a Single Day

Jeff Bezos’ massive fortune rises $12 Billion in a single day

Amazon surges as Jeff Bezos reaches a wealth never seen before in modern history.

ALEX CHRISTOFOROUApril 27, 2018, 13:49

Amazon shares surged on Thursday, as the internet giant reported a huge earnings report that beat forecasts, with strong growth from AWS and advertising.

Amazon stock jumped almost 7 percent in after-hours trading. The company also announced it would raise the price of its Prime membership to $119 per year…a 20% increase.

The end result: Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest person, got a lot richer, to the tune of $134 billion…which begs the question, when is such wealth, in the hands of one individual, simply too much?

Via Bloomberg…

The Amazon.com Inc. founder added $12 billion to his fortune as the company’s shares surged 6.3 percent to $1,614 in extended trading at 4:33 p.m. in New York — on top of a 4 percent gain during the regular session — after the retailer reported results that beat Wall Street estimates. That lifted Bezos’s net worth to to $134 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

It has been a turbulent week for the richest Americans in tech. On Tuesday, Alphabet Inc. spooked investors after first-quarter results sparked concern that the Google parent plans to go on a spending binge, punishing shares of Amazon, Facebook Inc. and Netflix Inc. Bezos lost $4.6 billion that day, and Alphabet’s Larry Page and Sergey Brin each lost $2 billion.

Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, whose fortune dropped $2.5 billion on Tuesday, got a reprieve Thursday as his wealth increased by $5.8 billion, a day after the social network posted better-than-expected results for the first quarter. He leapfrogged Spain’s Amancio Ortega to No. 5 in the global wealth ranking.