World’s Richest People Lose $182 Billion in Market Rout
The world’s 400 richest people lost $182 billion this week from their collective fortunes as weak manufacturing data from China and a rout in commodities sent global markets plunging.
The weekly drop for the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, a group that includes Warren Buffett and Glencore Plc’s Ivan Glasenberg, was the biggest since tracking of the expanded list began in September 2014. The combined net worth of the index members fell by $76 billion on Friday alone, when the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index of U.S. stocks ended its worst week since 2011.
“For them that’s a fractional percentage, even though $182 billion is a big number,” said John Collins, director of investment advisory at Aspiriant, which oversees more than $8 billion for high net worth clients. “A week like this feels really bad, but when you take a step back, in a big picture view it’s not a disaster by any means.”
Friday’s losses put the world’s richest 400 into the red for the year to date. They’re now down $74 billion in 2015, with a collective net worth of $3.98 trillion.
My emphasis.
So, 400 people have a net worth of almost 4 TRILLION dollars and here Bloomberg is sobbing into their Kleenex that they lost basically chump change?
4 comments:
Eh, I'm more concerned that Wall Street used this to steal $10K from my 401(k). Which, thanks to Wall Street having written the rules for 401(k)'s, I have no choice over whether it is invested with Wall Street or not. Thanks, Wall Street!
Why would they use their own money when they have ours?
It's not like they are going to miss any meals.
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