{"id":445180,"date":"2021-10-26T08:36:11","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T03:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=445180"},"modified":"2021-10-26T09:27:30","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T03:57:30","slug":"with-a-net-worth-of-288-6-bn-elon-musk-now-worth-more-than-exxon-mobil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/with-a-net-worth-of-288-6-bn-elon-musk-now-worth-more-than-exxon-mobil\/","title":{"rendered":"With a net worth of $288.6 bn, Elon Musk now worth more than Exxon Mobil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s just one more arresting data point amid a flurry of superlatives, but Elon Musk\u2019s soaring net worth now makes him more valuable than Exxon Mobil Corp.<\/p>\n<p>The wealth of the world\u2019s richest person jumped to $288.6 billion Monday, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.<\/p>\n<p>The $36.2 billion gain followed a surge in Tesla Inc.\u2019s stock price after Hertz Global Holdings Inc. ordered 100,000 cars.<\/p>\n<p>Eclipsing the value of an old-economy bellwether like Exxon may seem like an inevitable milestone in Musk\u2019s trajectory. But the oil company\u2019s own share price has been no laggard this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s just one more arresting data point amid a flurry of superlatives, but Elon Musk\u2019s soaring net worth now makes him more valuable than Exxon Mobil Corp. The wealth of the world\u2019s richest person jumped to $288.6 billion Monday, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The $36.2 billion gain followed a surge in Tesla Inc.\u2019s stock price after Hertz Global Holdings Inc. ordered 100,000 cars. Eclipsing the value of an old-economy bellwether like Exxon may seem like an inevitable milestone in Musk\u2019s trajectory. But the oil company\u2019s own share price has been no laggard this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}