(Adnkronos) – Donald Trump’s electoral victory was not just a personal success for the tycoon. According to data from the Bloomberg Billionaire Index, the 10 richest people in the world as of yesterday would be even richer, after registering a record surge in earnings since the index began collecting data in 2012.
The one who earned the most could only be Elon Musk, already the richest man in the world and among the biggest supporters and financiers of Trump, who since Election Day has collected 26.5 billion dollars, reaching a net worth of 290 billion. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos earned $7.1 billion in a week after ‘suspending’ his ‘Washington Post’ endorsement of Kamala Harris. Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, another Trump supporter, saw his net worth increase by $5.5 billion. Even some former Democratic supporters, although not siding in the latest election campaign, have benefited from Trump’s victory. These include former Microsoft executives Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, former Google executives Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett.
The 10 richest people have earned a total of $64 billion. Bloomberg notes that this is the “biggest single-day increase” in wealth recorded by the ‘Billionaire Index’, founded in 2012. The market has surged thanks to the quick conclusion of the election and expectations that Trump will usher in a new era of deregulation and other business-friendly laws and policies, which investors believe could benefit the stock market as a whole, particularly billionaires who hold much of the world’s wealth. “There’s a huge perception of a business- and tax-friendly regime, especially with the Senate win,” said Michael Block, chief operating officer of AgentSmyth.
