{"id":77269,"date":"2021-02-17T00:48:18","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T05:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=77269"},"modified":"2021-02-17T00:12:50","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T05:12:50","slug":"jeff-bezos-overtakes-elon-musk-to-reclaim-spot-as-worlds-richest-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2021\/jeff-bezos-overtakes-elon-musk-to-reclaim-spot-as-worlds-richest-person.html","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Bezos overtakes Elon Musk to reclaim spot as world\u2019s richest person"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/AMZN\">Amazon<\/a> CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/jeff-bezos\/\">Jeff Bezos<\/a> reclaimed his title as the world\u2019s richest person after he leapfrogged <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/TSLA\">Tesla<\/a> CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/elon-musk\/\">Elon Musk<\/a>, according to <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/real-time-billionaires\/#21f6e39f3d78\" target=\"_blank\">real-time data<\/a> from Forbes. Musk saw his net worth slide by $3.9 billion on Tuesday as Tesla shares closed at $796.22, down more than 2.4%. The 49-year-old entrepreneur <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/01\/07\/elon-musk-is-now-the-richest-person-in-the-world-passing-jeff-bezos-.html\">surpassed Bezos in January<\/a> to become the richest person in the world, on the back of Tesla\u2019s surging share price and his generous pay package.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/02\/16\/jeff-bezos-reclaims-spot-as-worlds-richest-person-from-elon-musk.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos reclaimed his title as the world\u2019s richest person after he leapfrogged Tesla CEO Elon Musk, according to real-time data from Forbes. Musk saw his net worth slide by $3.9 billion on Tuesday as Tesla shares [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77270,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77269\/revisions\/77270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}