{"id":11727,"date":"2017-11-09T08:00:55","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T14:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coolchecks.net\/blog\/?p=11727"},"modified":"2017-11-03T13:59:37","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T19:59:37","slug":"whos-the-richest-person-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coolchecks.net\/blog\/business-2\/whos-the-richest-person-on-earth.html","title":{"rendered":"Who\u2019s The Richest Person On Earth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure style=\"width: 274px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coolchecks.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/worlds_richest.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-11477\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coolchecks.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/worlds_richest.jpg\" alt=\"World's Richest\" width=\"260\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bezos moved from second place on the wealth rankings to first.<\/figcaption><\/figure>Jeff Bezos Hits Top Billing Of Richest Man On Earth.<\/p>\n<p> On Friday, October 27, Amazon.com Inc. shares took an upward surge , lifting his net worth by $7.8 billion to top out at $91.8 billion as of 10 a.m. in New York. A 10 percent uptick in shares bought current share costs to $1,007.59.  By October 31, shares are selling at $1,104.16.<\/p>\n<p>Bezos moved from second place on the wealth rankings to first. He was behind Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp. co-founder, on July 27 of this year, even though he enjoyed a short time at the top of heap before Amazon shares dipped, leaving Gates the winner at the end of the day.  <\/p>\n<p>Thursday, Gates ended the day with a net worth of $88 billion,  according to Bloomberg\u2019s index, which tracks the world\u2019s 500 richest people.  Gates, 61, has topped the list since 2013. <\/p>\n<p>On Friday,  when Bezos appeared headed for top billing on the list, others also saw their wealth grow. Alphabet Inc.\u2019s Sergey Brin and Larry Page added $2 billion in the first 30 minutes of trading, as did Microsoft\u2019s Steve Ballmer. Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook Inc. added $600,000 to his total. <\/p>\n<p>Bezos, 53, has increased his wealth by $18.1 billion this year, while Gates\u2019 net worth rose by $5.6 billion. Gates donated $4.6 billion of Microsoft stock to the Bill &#038; Melinda Gates Foundation in August.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts, looking at his public charity say Gates would be worth $150 billion if he had not donated almost 700 million Microsoft shares and cash and other assets to an amount of $2.9 billion since 1996. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Bezos Hits Top Billing Of Richest Man On Earth. On Friday, October 27, Amazon.com Inc. shares took an upward surge , lifting his net worth by $7.8 billion to top out at $91.8 billion as of 10 a.m. in New York. A 10 percent uptick in shares bought current share costs to $1,007.59. By [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":11730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[557,646,745],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coolchecks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11727"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coolchecks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coolchecks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coolchecks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coolchecks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11727"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.coolchecks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11735,"href":"https:\/\/www.coolchecks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11727\/revisions\/11735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coolchecks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coolchecks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coolchecks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coolchecks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}