{"id":445538,"date":"2021-10-27T08:48:08","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T03:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=445538"},"modified":"2021-10-27T09:58:17","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T04:28:17","slug":"musk-now-worth-more-than-exxonmobil-after-36-2-bn-single-day-gain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/musk-now-worth-more-than-exxonmobil-after-36-2-bn-single-day-gain\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk now worth more than ExxonMobil after $36.2 bn single-day gain"},"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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/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. Despite being overtaken by Musk at the start of 2021, Exxon has been on a tear since then.<\/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. 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. Despite being overtaken by Musk [&hellip;]<\/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-445538","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\/445538","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=445538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}