NASDAQ: MSFT moves to 5 Year High helping Bill Gates to Retain World’s Richest Person Title

May 16, 2013 By Deborah Cobing Leave a Comment

Bill Gates owns the major portion of Microsoft shares. Bloomberg reported, although he has been involved mostly in charity work since he left the job his shares at Microsoft helped him in regaining the spot he deserves. Bill Gates is again the world’s richest person. It happened as Microsoft shares moved to 5 year high.

There were a few factors which has made a major contribution in MSFT shares rise. The good show by Microsoft in the videogames area is expected to be a major factor. Apart from that, the new Windows update has also helped the MSFT.

The net worth of Gates as claimed by Bloomberg is $72.7 billion USD. Next to him is Carlos Slim, who was number one, but pushed down to number two. Mr. Slim net worth is estimated to be $72.1 billion.

About Deborah Cobing

The two C’s that best describe Deborah are calm and calculated. When she was younger she was fiercely determined to become a doctor. That was until she actually got into medicine school. After two years of university she realized that she wasn’t quite cut out for the job. She quickly halted her studies and decided to pursue a career in writing instead.