{"id":77541,"date":"2021-03-12T02:31:15","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T07:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=77541"},"modified":"2021-03-12T02:34:13","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T07:34:13","slug":"warren-buffetts-net-worth-surpasses-100-billion-for-the-first-time-as-berkshire-shares-hit-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2021\/warren-buffetts-net-worth-surpasses-100-billion-for-the-first-time-as-berkshire-shares-hit-record.html","title":{"rendered":"Warren Buffett\u2019s net worth surpasses $100 billion for the first time as Berkshire shares hit record"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/warren-buffett\/\">Warren Buffett<\/a>\u2019s net worth topped $100 billion for the first time as <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/BRK.A\" target=\"_blank\">Berkshire Hathaway<\/a> shares rallied to record highs. Berkshire\u2019s Class A shares closed at a record high of $399,650 on Wednesday, bringing its 2021 advance to more than 14%. That put the \u201cOracle of Omaha\u201d massive stake in the conglomerate at a market value above $99.5 billion. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/profile\/warren-buffett\/?sh=6a51361d4639\" target=\"_blank\">Forbes estimated<\/a> that the legendary investor\u2019s fortune reached about $100.5 billion as of Thursday, making him the sixth richest person in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/03\/11\/warren-buffetts-net-worth-surpasses-100-billion-for-the-first-time-as-berkshire-shares-hit-record.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Warren Buffett\u2019s net worth topped $100 billion for the first time as Berkshire Hathaway shares rallied to record highs. Berkshire\u2019s Class A shares closed at a record high of $399,650 on Wednesday, bringing its 2021 advance to more than [&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-77541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77541","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=77541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77542,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77541\/revisions\/77542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}