Trump Poll Hands Mexican Billionaires $1.4 Billion Loss: Chart

(Bloomberg) -- Mexico’s richest people are losing money as Donald Trump is gaining ground. The seven Mexicans among the world’s 400 richest people lost a combined $1.4 billion Wednesday, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, the same day a Bloomberg Politics poll showed the billionaire presidential candidate leading Democratic rival Hillary Clinton by five percentage points in the battleground state of Ohio. The Republican candidate has vowed to end or overhaul Nafta and "compel" Mexico to pay for a border wall, leading the peso into declines whenever his election outlook improves.

To contact the reporters on this story: Jack Witzig in Princeton at jwitzig@bloomberg.net, Blake Schmidt in Sao Paulo at bschmidt16@bloomberg.net, Tom Metcalf in San Francisco at tmetcalf7@bloomberg.net. To contact the editors responsible for this story: Robert LaFranco at rlafranco@bloomberg.net, Andrew Heathcote