Bloomberg: The world’s 400 richest people lost $127.4 billion Friday as global equity markets reeled from the news that British voters elected to leave the European Union.
The billionaires lost 3.2 percent of their total net worth, bringing the combined sum to $3.9 trillion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
The biggest decline belonged to Europe’s richest person, Amancio Ortega, who lost more than $6 billion, while nine others dropped more than $1 billion, including Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, the wealthiest person in the UK.
This chart shows how world’s 400 richest people lost $127 billion in wake of #Brexit vote https://t.co/y1MqhMmdD4 pic.twitter.com/DABD1dvHgN
— Bloomberg (@business) June 25, 2016
