The richest assets in the world

 The beginning of this year witnessed the continued volatility of global investment trends, as demand for gold increased with the rise in global geopolitical risks, despite the dollar trading at its highest levels in two decades, which is a strange relationship, as the dollar’s ​​movement theoretically contradicts the movement of gold.  

This time, the dollar's upward movements were mainly driven by high interest rates compared to other high-income economies, while gold was affected by fears of a possible interest rate cut during the second half of the year, and it also traded at its highest historical levels with expectations of further rise. 

 Meanwhile, gold has strengthened its presence at the top of the list of the most valuable assets in the world, according to data collected by “Companies Market Cap,” as the market value of the yellow metal exceeded $14 trillion. 

 While Microsoft strengthened its position as the largest global company in terms of market capitalization, which exceeded $3 trillion for the first time last month, while betting on its new plan for artificial intelligence.  

Artificial intelligence has become a major driver for stocks, as Nvidia has benefited from it, whose market capitalization has risen by more than $1.2 trillion since the beginning of last year, becoming the third most valuable company in the world, with a market capitalization of $2.06 trillion, behind the iPhone maker, “ Apple, whose market value fell to $2.77 trillion.  While Saudi Aramco comes in fifth place for the world's most valuable assets, with a market capitalization of $2.03 trillion. 

 The American company "Amazon" is in sixth place with a market capitalization of 1.85 trillion dollars, while "Alphabet" - the parent company of "Google" - is in seventh place in the world with worth $1.7 trillion, also benefited from the launch of  artificial intelligence Chatbot “Gemini”. 

Despite silver's significant gains since the beginning of last year, its market value only allows it to take eighth place  among the world's most valuable assets, in the amount of $1.3 trillion. la. 

While Meta Platforms, the company that owns Facebook and WhatsApp, is the last company on the list with a market capitalization of $1.28 trillion, it is only $2 billion behind “Bitcoin,” which is on the verge of breaking its previous all-time high. $69,000, as stated in the report. The market value of cryptocurrencies has increased to $1.78 trillion.  

Cryptocurrencies have benefited from a recent surge in demand following the launch of a spot ETF on Jan. 4, which increased demand for the largest digital asset by tens of billions of dollars.