Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Wednesday, November 5th.

Today on Forbes, the top 10 richest people in the world, November 2025.

Six of the 10 richest people on the planet saw their rankings rise or fall on the Forbes' billionaires list in a wild October for the world's wealthiest. As a group,

they're worth $2.4 trillion combined, up $100 billion since October 1st. Our top 10 richest

people in the world list is as of November 1st, 2025, at 12 a.m. Eastern Time. As a reminder, stock prices fluctuate routinely, so the net worths

on our list may change on a daily basis. Forbes tracks the daily changes on our real-time

list of billionaires. Forbes has been keeping track of the world's billionaires since 1987.

In April 2025, we found 3,028 of them for our annual list.

Elon Musk briefly became the first person ever worth $500 billion, twice in October. But he

ended the month a little poorer than that, with an estimated fortune of $497 billion,

up $6 billion from October 1st.

Still, the world's richest person managed to grow his lead over runner-up Larry Ellison

by $28 billion over the past 31 days, to $177 billion.

While shares of Musk's Tesla climbed by 3% in October, shares of Ellison's Oracle sank

by 7%, shaving $22 billion off the fortune of the Software Giants co-founder, who is now

worth an estimated $320 billion.

In mid-September, Ellison was briefly the second-ever person worth $400 billion and was within $40 billion of Musk, thanks to Oracle's rosy revenue projections

for its cloud infrastructure business, mostly to power AI, that pushed shares up 36% in a single day.

Since then, Oracle's shares have slid by 21% as some analysts have raised questions

about the profit margins on those cloud infrastructure sales and their dependence upon a partnership

with OpenAI.

Ellison didn't have the worst October, though. The month's biggest loser was

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