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发帖数: 3770 | 1 Amazon.com founder and The Washington Post owner Jeffrey P. Bezos on
Thursday briefly became the richest person in the world, displacing
Microsoft founder Bill Gates.
Bezos’s rise to No. 1 followed a surge in Amazon.com shares Thursday ahead
of the online retailer’s earnings report due out later in the day. The
company’s shares have been on a tear over the past year, passing the $1,000
mark and hitting $1,082 around noon on Thursday, propelling Bezos, 53, to $
90.6 billion compared with Gates’s $90.1 billion. Gates, 61, who built his
fortune through Microsoft, has long been among the world’s richest and had
held the top spot since May 2013.
By midday, however, Amazon shares gave up much of the gain, and Gates
reclaimed the top spot on Forbes magazine’s real-time measure of the
fortunes of the world’s wealthiest people. |
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