The world's richest people lost more than $ 440 billion during last week's trading in the week of the least described as shocking, with sharp losses in global stock markets due to panic and terror control Investors should spread the Corona virus.
According to ArabiaNet, the Bloomberg List of the World’s Richest People showed a decline in the fortunes of the 500 richest people around the world, totaling $ 444 billion during the past week alone. As the widespread prevalence of the Coronavirus in more than 50 countries, with the WHO's assessment of the risk of the virus to very serious, caused a wave of panic in the markets.
The global stock markets suffered the largest weekly loss since the global financial crisis in 2008, equivalent to losing about $ 6 trillion of the market value of all listed companies, according to unofficial estimates.
And topped the list of billionaires from the world's losers during last week's transactions, the American billionaire, Jeff Bezos, the Amazon Corporation, with his wealth declining by about $ 11.9 billion, to record about $ 116 billion by the end of Friday's transactions.
And billionaire billionaire Bill Gates, who ranks second in the list of the world's rich, has lost about $ 10 billion. Also, billionaire billionaire Bernard Arnaud, who is ranked third on the list of the world's rich, has also declined by about $ 9.1 billion. In the fourth place on the list of losers, billionaire Elon Musk, who ranks fifth in the list of the world's wealthy, lost about $ 9 billion, while billionaire Warren Buffett lost about $ 8.8 billion of his total wealth.
Bloomberg data indicates that during last Monday's session alone, the world's wealthy lost about $ 139 billion of their total wealth, which the agency attributed to the state of terror and terror that controls all investors in all stock markets and global stock markets.
The agency reported that this loss is the largest for the wealthy since 2016, as French billionaire and general manager of the LVMH group of companies, Bernard Arnaud, and founder of the American company Amazon, Jeff Bezos, lost more than $ 4.8 billion each.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg lost about $ 3.48 billion, and founder and owner of the Zara brand, Amnacio Utrega, lost about $ 4 billion, while the lowest number he lost was the top 10 billionaires in the ranking, about $ 2.3 billion.
The agency said that investors are concerned about the spread of the Chinese virus, and the potential for measures and quarantine risks to the economy of China and the world, after the World Health Organization, earlier, classified the Corona virus as a pandemic, and declared a global emergency.
