Net wealth of Mark Zuckerberg grew by about $ 5 billion in January, more than any billionaire in the Forbes list, enough to recover losses incurred by Facebook founder immediately after the victory of Donald Trump in American presidential elections of November 8, MarketWatch forward.
Zuckerberg's fortune growth was fueled by higher incomes of Facebook and a series of favorable analyst reports that made the company's stock was approaching a historic high of over 133 dollars per unit achieved in October.
Facebook shares ended Friday at $ 128.34 transactions per unit. Zuckerberg owns 410 million shares Facebook.
Facebook shares decline immediately after Trump's surprising victory in elections, deleted about 7% of Zuckerberg's net worth.
Increasing 5 billion of net wealth of the founder of Facebook in the first two weeks of this month is higher than that recorded by any billionaire in the Forbes billionaires.
Zuckerberg now has a fortune estimated at 53.8 billion dollars, according to the ranking of billionaires by Forbes conducted in real time. Facebook boss in this way is the fifth richest man in the world after Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Amancio Ortega Jeff Bezos, each of them having a fortune of 70 billion dollars.
