股市的动荡可以让科技公司的掌舵人一夜暴富,但也可能迅速抹去他们财富的增长。经历了过去一周市场的剧烈动荡,全球最富有的亿万富豪的财富状况又发生了变化。

  美股市场正在经历自2020年3月新冠大流行暴发以来最动荡的时期,科技行业过去几个交易日损失惨重。从电子商务、视频游戏、社交网络再到加密货币,大多数上市公司最近几天的价格都出现了大幅下跌。

  这也令亿万富豪最近几天的财富增长戛然而止。自新冠危机开始以来,各国央行向金融市场注入数万亿美元资金刺激经济,这使得富豪们的财富急剧上升。

  福布斯汇编数据显示,全球最富有的10位富豪的财富在疫情期间实现翻番,达到全球最贫穷的31亿人口财富总值的6倍,他们平均每天财富增长超过13亿美元。

  不过在截至周一的一周里,特斯拉和亚马逊股价下跌均超过10%,Meta、谷歌和微软股价下跌也超过5%,其中,亚马逊是过去一周以来股价表现最糟糕的科技公司之一,一周跌幅创下2018年12月以来的最差表现。

  股价大跌使得5家科技巨头企业掌控人的财富合计缩水670亿美元。其中,特斯拉CEO埃隆·马斯克损失超过250亿美元,这占到他总财富的9%,亚马逊创始人杰夫·贝佐斯损失近200亿美元,Meta创始人马克·扎克伯格损失104亿美元,谷歌联合创始人拉里·佩奇和微软创始人比尔·盖茨分别损失76亿美元和43亿美元。

  加密货币也是过去一周遭到重创的行业。币安创始人赵长鹏自年初以来,财富缩水近210亿美元,这占到他所有财富的22%。

  福布斯富豪榜排名前三位也发生了变化。贝佐斯原本排名第二的位置被法国奢侈品巨头LVMH集团掌门人伯纳德·阿尔诺取代,阿尔诺目前财富总值为1900亿美元,贝佐斯排名第三,财富总值1685亿美元。马斯克以2442亿美元的财富总值排名首位,但这比特斯拉股价顶峰时期已缩水了600多亿美元。

  Benefiting from the firming of the global luxury goods market, Arnault was the only billionaire among Forbes' top 10 richest people in the world whose wealth did not shrink in the past week. Instead, he "earned an extra" $3 billion.

  Bruno Lannes, senior global partner of Bain & Company, analyzed to the first financial reporter: "Despite the increasingly severe social and economic challenges facing the world, the luxury goods market continues to grow, especially in China. The growth rate is expected to continue to maintain double-digit growth, and the growth rate is expected to reach 36% in 2021."

  In response to the reasons for this round of technology stocks plummeting at the beginning of the year, market analysts believe that the geopolitical risks of Russia and Ukraine, the uncertainty of the Fed's key interest rate hike, and the economic downside risks caused by the tight global supply chain have all caused the market to panic.

  "Markets remain challenging in 2022 as central bank asset purchases are tapered and interest rates gradually move higher. Central banks have made it clear that monetary policy normalization is underway," said Michael Reinkin, senior market strategist at the New York Stock Exchange. "How to address cost pressures and maintain high margins will remain the focus of corporate efforts throughout the year," Reinking wrote in a report.

  The US stock market earnings season kicked off last week, and next week will usher in the release of a large number of technology companies.

Some analysts believe the momentum in corporate earnings growth is slowing.

  “Earnings momentum has slowed and we see risks to corporate earnings in 2022 amid persistent inflationary pressures,” Bank of America analyst Savita Subramanian wrote in a recent note to clients. The contraction will outweigh the EPS growth."

  Of the roughly 60 companies that have reported earnings so far, although 76% have beaten expectations, they have beaten expectations by only 7.4%, well below the 15% beat in the previous quarter, which also suggests corporate earnings. closer to the "normal" historical range.