Earlier Gautam Adani was trailing Mukesh Ambani’s $91 billion wealth at $88.8 billion, as per publicly available data with Bloomberg.
Shares of Reliance Industries stayed under pressure after the recent scrapping of O2C deal and were quoting 1.07 per cent lower at Rs 2,360.70.
On the other hand, Adani group stocks were trading higher. Adani Enterprises was up 2.94 per cent higher at Rs 1757.70. Adani Ports rose 4.87 per cent to Rs 764.75. Adani Transmission gained 0.50 per cent to Rs 1,950.75 while Adani Power shares also added 0.33 per cent to Rs 106.25.
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Two of Adani group stocks Adani Green and Adani Total Gas were trading up to 1 per cent lower.
Gautam Adani has added $55 billion to his fortunes on a year-to-date basis compared with Mukesh Ambani’s $14.3 billion.
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