Gautam Adani becomes Asia’s richest person, overtakes Mukesh Ambani

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New Delhi, June 2. Gautam Adani has retaken the tag of richest person in Asia after a surge in stock price of the listed companies in his apples-to-airport conglomerate helped him overtake Reliance Industries head Mukesh Ambani...

Adani with a net worth of USD 111 billion is now ranked as the 11th richest in the world, ahead of Ambani whose USD 109 billion wealth placed him at No. 12, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index...

Shares of all Adani Group companies surged on Friday by up to 14 per cent after US brokerage Jefferies put a bullish view on the group that is back to an expansion spree with a planned USD 90 billion capital expenditure over the next decade...

Hindenburg alleged Adanis business empire was built through fraud, sending stock prices of his group crashing by USD 150 billion at its lowest point and him out of the worlds top 20 billionaires..

So far in 2024, Adanis net worth has jumped USD 26.8 billion while Ambanis wealth has increased by USD 12.7 billion, according to Bloomberg Billionaires Index...

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