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Amazon earnings report knocks Jeff Bezos back to second richest man

Online retail giant Amazon saw its stock price surge Thursday, giving the world a new richest person for the first time since 2013. The jump vaulted founder Jeff Bezos past Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, according to Bloomberg. But Amazon's quarterly earnings missed estimates, which sent shares lower and returned Bezos to second place. Jeff Glor reports.
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