A global shopping splurge on luxury goods and beauty products is making some of the world’s richest people even richer.
Francoise Bettencourt Meyers, 69, the wealthiest woman on the planet, is the latest French billionaire to benefit from the spending spree. Her fortune rose to $93.3 billion on Thursday, a $21.8 billion jump since the start of the year, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, after L’Oréal, the makeup and skincare…