{"id":21823,"date":"2019-10-19T07:00:46","date_gmt":"2019-10-19T07:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/?p=21823"},"modified":"2019-10-18T18:59:30","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T18:59:30","slug":"arnault-new-billionaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/news\/arnault-new-billionaire\/","title":{"rendered":"<Arnault new billionaire>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lede-text-v2__hed\">Europe\u2019s richest person, Bernard Arnault, joins\u00a0the\u00a0ranks\u00a0of centibillionaires.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"lede-text-v2__hed\">Bernard Arnault, chairman of\u00a0LVMH, has recently entered the\u00a0ranks\u00a0of centibillionaires, joining\u00a0Jeff Bezos\u00a0and\u00a0Bill Gates\u00a0as the only people in the world with a fortune of at least $100 billion.<\/p>\n<p>As the luxury-goods maker climbed 2.9% to a record 368.80 euros a share, according to <a title=\"Bloomberg Billionaires Index\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/billionaires\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bloomberg Billionaires Index,<\/a>\u00a0his net worth has increased almost $32 billion this year, meaning his\u00a0fortune now equals more than 3% of France\u2019s economy,\u00a0underscoring the wealth gap in his native country, where protesters have agitated this year for more benefits paid for by the rich.<\/p>\n<p>The 70 year-old centibillionaire\u00a0and his family pledged\u00a0more than $650 million in April 2019 for the reconstruction of Notre Dame Cathedral after the landmark church was ravaged by fire. Arnault controls about half of Paris-based LVMH through a family holding company. He also owns a 97% stake in Christian Dior, the fashion house founded three years before his birth in 1949.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s shares have surged 43% this year, the third-best performer on France\u2019s CAC 40 Index.<\/p>\n<h2>How is competition?<\/h2>\n<p>Jeff Bezos\u2019 net worth dropped $40 billion earlier this year after reaching a divorce settlement with MacKenzie Bezos.<\/p>\n<p>Bill Gates&#8217; net worth surpassed $100 billion mid April as Microsoft shares ticked up prior to the company&#8217;s earnings announcement and combined with solid performance from Gates&#8217; other investments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europe\u2019s richest person, Bernard Arnault, joins\u00a0the\u00a0ranks\u00a0of centibillionaires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":21824,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1338],"tags":[2219,2218,484,99,1385,658,2220],"class_list":["post-21823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-100-billion","tag-bernard-arnault","tag-bill-gates","tag-ceo","tag-ceo-northam","tag-jeff-bezos","tag-net-worth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21823"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21829,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21823\/revisions\/21829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}