Millionaire Numbers Swell to 8.7M
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – The increasing ease of becoming a millionaire became clear yesterday, with the announcement that the ranks of world millionaires had swelled to 8.7 million last year – half a million more than the population of New York City.
Millionaires also invested more aggressively, pouring cash into emerging markets and pulling it out of fixed income holdings, as their wealth reached $33.3 trillion, more than double American economic output, a study by Merrill Lynch and the consultancy Capgemini found.
