In the contest of the richest in the world, Bernard Arnault is high up. The French CEO of LVMH luxury group and his family briefly took the helm on Wednesday of the Forbes ranking of the richest people in the worldwith 185 billion dollars, dethroning the American Elon Muskboss of Tesla, SpaceX and Twitter.
The 73-year-old French businessman and his family were for a time at the top of this ranking, produced in real time and available online, due to a Elon Musk’s waning fortune, due in particular to a sharp decline in Tesla shares on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday. But around 5:30 p.m. GMT, Elon Musk (with a fortune of 184.9 billion dollars) passed Bernard Arnault (184.7 billion). Indian businessman Gautam Adani (134.8 billion), the head of a conglomerate, was in 3rd place, while Jeff Bezos (111.3 billion), founder of Amazon, was in 4th place square.
Bernard Arnault had already occupied the first place in this ranking for a few hours in May 2021. The fortune of the french billionaire has recently benefited from the jump in the results of LVMH, the world’s number one luxury goods company, whose net profit had reached 12 billion euros in 2021. Elon Musk, whose fortune depends on the evolution of Tesla’s action, has recently been at the heart of multiple controversies since it bought the social network Twitter. The other benchmark ranking, that of the financial agency Bloomberg, places Elon Musk in the lead. According to this daily ranking stopped on Tuesday, at the close of Wall Street, the fortune of the American businessman reached 178.9 billion dollars, ahead of that of Bernard Arnault (165.1 billion).
