Monday, June 17, 2013

This week, the richest 200 lose $ 16 billion


► "giant" Rupert Murdoch are Americans who are less fortunate in this week who lost money when the divorce is just the third time ...





Billionaire Rupert Murdoch, 82, caused a stir when announced divorce third wife Wendi Deng in this week - Photo: Bloomberg.


 
200 richest people saw net asset value decline totaling $ 16 billion this week as global stock market losses. "Giant" Rupert Murdoch's American media is the most unlucky person this week who lost money when the divorce is just the third time at the age of 82.


According to Bloomberg, some adverse economic information published in this week dragged global stock market losses, led to the downfall of the net asset value of world billionaires. For the whole week, the Standard & Poor's 500 index of Wall Street fell more than 1%, closing at 1626.73 points. In the European market, the Stoxx Europe 600 fell 1.45%, closing at 291.13 points.


On Friday, statistics show that the confidence of U.S. consumers in June fell below the highest level achieved in 6 years last month. In addition, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) cut its growth forecast of U.S. GDP in 2014 to 2.7% from 3% of the time given in the notice. Analysts are concerned, in the context of the U.S. economic recovery remains uncertain, the U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) or narrow end soon support program growth will cause the risks.


One of the witnesses billionaire asset losses this week as Rupert Murdoch, chairman of News Corp media conglomerate. U.S.. Net asset value of $ 290 million fell Murdoch this week.


But Murdoch-related information that most public attention in the week that he is not losing money, but his divorce with third wife. At age 82, Murdoch has announced filing for divorce from his wife Wendi Deng, 44 flower stem. According to a spokesman for Murdoch, the contents of the said bill of divorce, the husband and wife relationship Murdoch has "deteriorated to unsustainable levels."


According to several sources close to the couple Murdoch signed the prenuptial agreement on the issue of property before marriage. Therefore, the value of the assets of billionaire probably will not be significantly affected after a divorce. With total assets of $ 12.2 billion, Murdoch is the 78th richest in the world according to Bloomberg Billionaires Index ranking.


Although the net asset value of $ 1 billion loss this week, 57-year-old billionaire Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, is still the richest man in the world. He is currently a net asset value at 71.4 billion dollars. The gap between the net asset value of Bill Gates with the world's second richest man, telecommunications billionaire Carlos Slim of Mexico, which is $ 4.8 billion.


73 years old this year, Carlos Slim is holding a net worth valued at 66.6 billion, down $ 300 million in the week. Since early this year, the billionaire property fell by 8.7 billion shares of telecom America Movil SAB chaired by Mr. decreased 14%.


The world's third-rich continue by legendary investor Warren Buffett holds. The 82-year-old chairman of Berkshire Hathaway is $ 61 billion, down $ 600 million this week. From the beginning of the year, Berkshire's stock price rose 28% thanks to effective business strategy.


Billionaire hedge gold famous John Paulson, 57, is continuing to suffer from the loss of this precious metal. According to a letter from the golden fund of Paulson Gold Fund sent to investors, the fund's value decline 13% in May, bringing the total reduction since early last year, up 54% so far. However, this is the smallest capital funds in the fund management group's $ 19 billion Paulson.


Owns $ 9.6 billion in assets, billionaire Paulson is currently ranked 112 in the list of world's 200 richest people.


Billionaire Bloomberg Billionaires Ranking Index of Bloomberg financial news agency estimated asset value of the 200 richest people on the planet and economic changes as well as market reports by Bloomberg News. Net asset value of every billionaire in the ranking is updated every business day at 5:30 pm in New York, and now are in USD.

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