Billionaires News

Geneva - The number of billionaires worldwide rose above 1,500 last year, a 10 percent jump from 2015, due largely to a surge in Asia, Swiss banking giant UBS and auditors PwC said Thursday.

New York - America's richest may be getting richer but President Donald Trump's fortune has slid by $600 million to $3.1 billion, according to a list of 400 billionaires released by Forbes magazine on Tuesday.

New York - Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates once again topped the Forbes magazine list of the world's richest billionaires, while US President Donald Trump slipped more than 200 spots, the magazine said Monday.

Paris - Donald Trump, the real estate mogul, reality TV star and US president-elect whose worth Forbes estimates at $3.7 billion, joins an ultra-elite group of billionaire business tycoons who have come to power through the ballot box.

The number of billionaires in the world has more than doubled since the global financial crisis of 2009, with inequality reaching new extremes, according to a recently-released report from the UK-based charity Oxfam.

The Billionaire Census conducted by Wealth-X and UBS has concluded that the world’s richest people are keeping their money in cash, rather than investing it.

London - The number of billionaires living in the U.K. has risen to more than 100 for the first time, according to the 2014 Sunday Times Rich List.

Bill Gates has returned to the top of Forbes magazine's annual list of the world's richest people, as rising stock markets swelled the ranks of billionaires, which included a record number of women.

Th Porsche Building is underway in Miami, Florida, and it stands at 60 stories. Two percent of the world's billionaires will be housed there.

The billionaire founder of one of the world's largest investment firms has acknowledged that he has gotten incredibly wealthy "at the expense of labor" and is calling for higher taxes on the rich to help curb growing economic inequality.

Abuja - It is being alleged that the message of the Nigerian state to would-be militants is that militancy pays. Recent reports say Nigeria is paying out millions of dollars to former Niger Delta "war lords" in the effort to sustain the "peace" in the region.

New York - Forbes, famous for its 'lists' especially 'rich lists,' 'powerful people lists' and 'leading company lists,' now tracks in real-time the gains and losses of the world's top billionaires' investments during the New York Stock Exchange's hours of trading.

Copenhagen - The state-run Danish lottery blundered big time when it emailed 300 lottery players to congratulate them on a $3.8 billion win.

The GOP has executed the largest transfer of wealth in U.S. history. Due to unfair tax schemes and an obsession for selling out to corporations while hobbling the middle class, the U.S. has record numbers of billionaires and people living in poverty.

Even with world economies teetering on collapse and rampant inflation brought on by oil price spikes, this year saw the highest number of dollar billionaires on earth – 1,210 billionaires with a total net worth of $4.5 trillion (US).

Two of the world's richest men plan to spend $60 Million on 'Strong American Schools' in a political effort to put education high onto the agenda of the 2008 presidential race.

Forbes lists the World's Billionaires, 2007

The billionare's-only Forbes list of the 400 richest Americans, at the very least, is no boys-only club.