Top 5 stocks from different platforms (10/18)

- The world's richest man keeps getting richer. This week, $Tesla (TSLA.US)$ CEO Elon Musk passed another significant milestone with a wealth greater than two executives who once topped the list.

- $Apple (AAPL.US)$ is holding a launch event on Monday to announce new products. Apple's line of Macs are the most likely products to get new versions next week, especially the larger sizes of the MacBook Pro. Apple is also likely to provide a release date for macOS Monterey, the latest version of the Mac software, which was announced in June but has not yet been officially released.

- $Meta Platforms (FB.US)$ said it plans to create 10,000 high-skilled jobs in the EU over the next five years. The recruitment drive is part of Facebook's ambition to create a digital world known as the "metaverse." A number of other companies, including $Microsoft (MSFT.US)$ , $Roblox (RBLX.US)$ and Epic are investing in their own versions of the metaverse.

- "Squid Game," $Netflix (NFLX.US)$'s biggest original series launch, is estimated to be worth almost $900 million for the streaming giant, Bloomberg News reported late on Saturday, citing figures from an internal Netflix document.