Tesla shares plunged 8.6% on Monday, wiping $ 15.2 billion from his net worth, making Elon Musk no longer the richest person in the world.
According to Arabnet, Tesla said in a statement that the reason for the company’s decline is partly due to Musk’s comments over the weekend that Bitcoin and its smaller rival Ethereum appear to be high, according to When Bloomberg was mentioned, and viewed by Al Arabiya.net.
His message came, via his favorite Twitter, two weeks after Tesla announced that it had added $ 1.5 billion of Bitcoin to its balance sheet.
Musk tweeted earlier on Monday that Tesla's Y Standard Range SUV would remain off the list.
Musk slipped to the second place in the Bloomberg Billionaires Index of the 500 Richest People in the World with a net worth of $ 183.4 billion, as Amazon founder Jeff Bezos regained first place even with His fortune decreased by $ 3.7 billion to $ 186.3 billion yesterday.
and the two billionaires swapped places this year as Tesla's value fluctuated, and Musk briefly outperformed Bezos after his missile company, SpaceX, raised $ 850 million earlier in the year. This month, it valued the company at $ 74 billion, up 60% from August.
Bezos ranked first in the ranking for three years in a row before January, when Musk outperformed the e-commerce giant thanks to a 794% rise in Tesla shares.
