The technology companies that the United States Congress investigates on suspicions of monopoly live a day of strong increases (except Google) and, therefore, so does the assets of its top executives. Marck Zuckerberg (Facebook), Jeff Bezos (Amazon), his ex-wife, MacKenzie Scott, and Tim Cook (Apple) are registering latent capital gains of more than 16,000 million euros (about 19,000 million dollars) this Tuesday. The apple company's rise of more than 10% allows it to overtake Aramco as the most valuable firm in the world.
Apple is worth 1.52 trillion euros (1.8 trillion dollars) at today's closing. The Saudi Arabian state oil company, meanwhile, is relegated to second place among the most valuable: it is worth 1.76 trillion euros (1.49 trillion dollars).
Jeff Bezos, the owner of Amazon and the richest person in the world according to Forbes , today earns more than 7,000 million euros (8.2 billion dollars) and his equity in stock shoots up over 177,000 million dollars. Bezos owns an 11.08% stake in the e-commerce giant. Who also benefits from the rise of the company (about 4%) is his ex-wife, MacKenzie Scott, owner of 3.95% of the titles: he pockets more than 2.3 billion euros (about 2.8 billion dollars).
A similar rise records the wealth of Mark Zuckerberg. The founder of Facebook earns in this session around 7,000 million euros (8,350 million dollars). His case is particular: the company owns class A and B shares. Zuckerberg owns 89.12% of the latter, so that its participation is diluted to 16.7% of the total due to the fact that the shares are listed ( Type A) owns only 0.18%.
Apple's chief executive officer owns 0.02% of Cupertino's technology stocks. However, this Friday his equity associated with the company is 295 million euros when yesterday, at market close, it was 277 million. The increase is explained by the fact that each Apple share is worth more than $ 400, almost double the unit price (of a title) of Facebook, and the signature of the apple rises strongly, above 6%.