It is noted that the CEO of the LVMH group of companies, Bernard Arnault and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, lost more than $ 4.8 billion each, and Zara owner Amancio Otrega lost $ 4 billion.
At the same time, the condition of the remaining top ten billionaires fell by at least $ 2.3 billion.
It is clarified that the recorded indicators of financial losses of people from this rating are the largest since October 2016, when Bloomberg began to conduct such observations.
At the same time, according to the publication, US stock indices at the close of trading on February 24 fell by more than 3%.
Earlier, the international rating agency Moody's lowered its forecast for GDP growth in the G20 countries from 2020 from 2.6% to 2.4% due to the outbreak of a new type of coronavirus infection COVID-19.
According to recent data, the number of victims of COVID-2019 in China amounted to 2663, confirmed 77 658 cases of infection.