The three richest billionaires in the world – Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg, lost at least US $ 23 billion per person in just two days Mr. Trump announced a new tariff policy.
US President Donald Trump on April 2 announced the minimum tax rate of 10% for goods imported from all countries. At the same time, he announced the reciprocal tax rate for 180 economies, with a country of up to 50%.
This information caused the US stock market to plummet, the Dow Jones, S&P 500 and Nasdaq’s index decreased by more than 5% in the last session of the week.
According to Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index, the three richest billionaires in the world, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg lost $ 30.9 billion; 23.49 billion USD and 27.34 billion USD. This is also the strongest reduction in two days of being recorded for the group of 500 richest people on the planet.
The three giants Tesla, Amazon and Meta were heavily affected by the technology industry depended on production, chips and information technology services from China, India and Taiwan. In particular, the US will impose a 32% tax on goods from Taiwan, 26% with India and increase the total tax to 54% with China.
In addition to affecting production costs, new policies also threaten the US economic growth, which can cause the advertising revenue of Amazon and Meta to decline, according to experts.
Elon Musk is currently a senior advisor of the US Government (Doge) – witnessing the value of strong assets in 2025. In the first quarter, Tesla only sold 336,681 vehicles, down 13% compared to the same period last year, the worst quarter since 2022. Total, Musk has lost $ 130 billion since the beginning of the year, but still led the rating of Phu billion with estimated assets of $ 302 billion. Bezos currently owns 193 billion USD, and Zuckerberg is 179 billion USD.
Not all billionaires have damaged after the recent sell -off. Dan Gilbert – co -founder of Rocket Mortgage and owner of the NBA Cleveland Cavaliers – an increase of US $ 1.91 billion on April 4, raising assets to $ 32.4 billion.
Mexican Mexico Carlos Slim increased by US $ 2.9 billion on April 3, but it lost $ 5.48 billion the next day. Slim thinks that Trump’s tariff is just a temporary negotiation tool. He also said that the US has no option but to change the trade approach.
Quynh Trang (theo CNBC)