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On Sept. 29, 1916, newspapers across the country announced a wealth milestone once thought to be unreachable: the world’s first billionaire.

“Standard (Oil) at $2,014 makes its head a billionaire,” blared The New York Times headline, adding that Standard Oil’s soaring share price “makes John D. Rockefeller, founder and largest shareholder, almost certainly a billionaire.”

More than a century after the first U.S. billionaire (in measurable dollar terms), the question of who will be first to reach the trillionaire mark continues to fascinate. At least a half-dozen companies have done it, most recently Berkshire Hathaway, which topped $1 trillion just before Warren Buffett’s 94th birthday. Nvidia is now at $2.6 trillion, having hit the 13-figure club last year.

And what about individuals? According to a new report from Informa Connect Academy, which predicts trillionaire status based on average annual growth rate in wealth, Tesla CEO Elon Musk will likely be the first trillionaire.

Musk is currently the world’s richest person, with $251 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Connect Academy forecasts Musk will become a trillionaire sometime in 2027, assuming that his wealth continues to grow at an annual average rate of 110%.

The second to reach trillionaire status, according to the report, will be India’s Gautam Adani, founder of the Adani Group conglomerate. If Adani maintains his recent annual growth rate of 123%, the report says he will be a trillionaire in 2028.

Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, who has seen his wealth skyrocket from $3 billion to more than $90 billion in five years, would become a trillionaire by 2028, according to the report. His wealth would have to continue growing at an average annual rate of 112%. Nvidia’s stock is already up about 115% this year, after more than tripling last year.

Fourth on the list is Indonesia’s Prajogo Pangestu, founder of the Indonesian energy and mining conglomerate Barito Pacific. The report predicts Pangestu could reach trillionaire status by 2028.

Rounding out the top five would be LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault, who is currently the world’s third-richest person, with just under $200 billion. The report has the luxury king becoming a trillionaire sometime in 2030, along with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Some top billionaires who seem like strong candidates to quickly reach the four-comma club don’t make the top 10. Jeff Bezos, currently the world’s second-richest person, with $200 billion, according to Bloomberg, is listed at No. 12, and wouldn’t become a trillionaire until 2036. Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the Google founders, are also slated to wait 12 years to become trillionaires — although artificial intelligence may accelerate their rise.

Granted, wealth-watchers have been predicting the first trillionaire for years. And the stocks of Tesla, Nvidia and LVMH may not go up as fast in the next five years as they did in the past five.

Yet more than 100 years after the first billionaire, the first trillionaire could well be crowned in the next decade.

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Here’s what CNBC TV’s producers were watching during the rebound and what’s on the radar for the next session.

Inflation in the USA

• Two days of key data kick-off Tuesday at 8:30 a.m. ET with the producer price index, which looks at inflation from the wholesaler’s side of the equation. Economists predict the number was up 0.2% in July from the prior month.
• Wednesday we will get CPI, the consumer price index, also at 8:30 a.m. ET.
• The S&P 500 is down more than 5% from its high on July 16.
• The Nasdaq 100 is off about 10% from the July 10 high.
• The Dow Jones Industrial Average has fallen about 5% from its July 18 high.

Gold

Home Depot

• The home improvement (and more) giant reports quarterly numbers before the bell.
• The stock is flat since last reporting three months ago.
• Home Depot is 13% from the stock’s March high.

Boeing

• The airline maker reports July orders and deliveries tomorrow morning.
• The stock is down about 10% since the last report a month ago.
• Boeing is down 38.6% from its 52-week high in December.

Nvidia’s rebound

• Seema Mody will report on Nvidia’s recent move.
• The stock was up 4.1% today and it’s up 8.5% in five sessions.
• Nvidia remains 22.5% from the 52-week high it hit on June 20.

The other six of the ‘Magnificent Seven’

• Meta is 5% from its July 8 high.
• Apple is 8.3% from its July 15 high.
• Microsoft is 13% from its July 5 high.
• Alphabet is 15.3% from its July 10 high.
• Amazon is 17% from its July 8 high.
• Tesla is 29% from its Sept. 15 high.

Tesla vs. China

• CNBC’s Eunice Yoon, who reports from China, will look at Tesla’s Chinese competitors tomorrow.
• All the big ones are down in August, over the last month and three months.
• Li Auto is down 27% in three months; the stock is 58% from its Feb. 27 high.
• Xpeng is down 25% in one month, and is 67% from its Sept. 1 high.
• BYD is down 13% in a month, 17% below its 52-week high.
• Zeekr is down 26% in a month, and has fallen 55% since its May 13 high.
• Nio is down 26% in three months, and has tumbled 71% since its 52-week high nearly a year ago.

13F filings

• CNBC will be checking on the stocks the biggest fundrunners in the country are buying and selling. The 13F filings to the Securities and Exchange Commission, which make these disclosures, start tomorrow.
• One filing that many pay attention to is Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway.
• BRK.A is up 19% so far in 2024 and up 4% in three months.