Jeff Bezos Richest Man

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Jeff Bezos sold $1.7 billion of Amazon.com Inc. stock, bringing the amount he's unloaded this month to about $6.7 billion.

The net worth of the world's richest person went up by $4.9 billion after Amazon stock edged up 2% as of Wednesday afternoon

Amazon.com. shares surged 7.9 per cent, the most since December 2018 on rising optimism about web shopping trends, and are now up 73 per cent this year.

Shares of the retailer surged 4.4 per cent to a record $2,878.70, boosting the founder's world-leading fortune to $171.6 billion.

Shares of the biggest online retailer dropped 8.1 per cent to $1,637 in extended trading at 4:24 p.m. in New York

Twenty-one members of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index lost $1 billion or more as investors reacted to stepped-up tensions between the US and China

Behind Bezos on the Bloomberg index is Gates, with a $95.5 billion fortune followed by Warren Buffett with $83 billion

The rise catapulted him past Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates as the world's richest person

According to Forbes, the fortune of Amazon's founder reached some $90.6 billion, compared with the $90.1 billion that the online edition of the magazine attributes to Gates

If the share gains hold through Friday's close, Bezos will top the index for the first time

Shares of the online retailer rose 1.3% to $1,065.92, giving Bezos a net worth of $90.9 billion