![]() ![]() Amazon rose 4 percent in February while the broader market tumbled almost 4 percent. Here is how it breaks down for the top five countries based on GDP:īezos' gains come as shares of the online retailing giant have continued to soar even as the broader stock market took a nose-dive in February that resulted in the first correction - defined as a drop of 10 percent or more - for the Standard & Poor's 500 index in two years.Īmazon's stock is at a record high and is up about 31 percent for the year compared to a 2 percent gain for the S&P 500. ![]() In the world's second-largest economy, it would take the combined wealth of 19 million Chinese adults with a median wealth of $6,689 to reach $127 billion. That means it would take the combined wealth of 1.8 million Americans to equal the $100 billion of a centi-billionaire and 2.3 million to hit the $127 billion of Jeff Bezos. In the U.S., where a population of about 320 million contributed to gross domestic product of $19 trillion last year, the median wealth of an American was $55,876, according to the 2017 Credit Suisse's Global Wealth Report. "Bezos has seen his wealth remain in excess of $100 billion, and with the likes of Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Mark Zuckerberg also tipped to reach that eye-watering milestone, it seems we're entering the era of the centi-billionaire," Vishal Chhatralia, vice president digital operations for RS Components said in a statement. A new report produced by the digital marketing firm Aira for industrial components distributor RS Components tries to visualize that wealth, comparing $100 billion to the gross domestic product of the world's richest nations. ![]()
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