Bezos, Gates and Buffett top embattled Forbes ‘Billionaires’ list
By Reuters
10 March 2019 |
11:00 am
Billionaires as a whole may have lost a bit of their reach and wealth in 2018, but the heavy hitters are still on top, according to Forbes Magazine, which released its 33rd annual World Billionaires List.
In this article
Related
2 Mar 2017
Shuttling parcels around for Alibaba and other retailers are creating China’s latest wealth explosion, with a surge in shares of S.F. Express making Wang Wei the country’s third-richest man.
7 Jun 2017
Manchester United top Forbes list of most valuable soccer team while Real Madrid dip from first to third place.
9 Aug 2017
Calvin Harris is the top earning DJ on the planet.
14 Oct 2017
Forbes honours Emefiele for FX, import substitution.
27 Jan 2018
Canadian pharmaceutical billionaires Barry and Honey Sherman were murdered in a targeted killing, Toronto police said on Friday, but no one has been charged in their deaths.
2 May 2018
Bloomberg’s Ed Hammond discusses New York's real estate market for the well-heeled. He speaks with Lisa Abramowicz and David Westin on "Bloomberg Daybreak: Americas."
2 Jun 2018
Today marks the reveal of Forbes Africa’s highly anticipated cover, The Forbes Africa Under 30 list. We have a couple of videos rolling out throughout the month of June introducing some of the candidates.
18 Dec 2018
This Chinese city has made 8 of 500 top billionaires in the world.
6 Mar 2019
Reading today's headlines you may think that billionaire entrepreneurs are new to the space race - they're not. It all started with them. Here's the brief history of private space travel.
10 Mar 2019
Billionaires as a whole may have lost a bit of their reach and wealth in 2018, but the heavy hitters are still on top, according to Forbes Magazine, which released its 33rd annual World Billionaires List.
17 Apr 2019
Is it fair? Social media backlash as billionaires pledge €600 million to save 'precious stones'.
11 May 2019
The May cover of Forbes Africa features Nigerian billionaire Abdulsamad Rabiu, founder of BUA Group, a Nigerian conglomerate active in cement production, sugar refining and real estate. Forbes Africa West Africa Correspondent Peace Hyde filed this report.
Latest
31 mins ago
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan discussed unblocking the border at the meeting with the EU's Charles Michel in Brussels.
1 hour ago
Datamellon partners with Amazon world service on the Internet of things (iot) revolution and serverless event-driven architectures.
1 hour ago
Cypriot President Nikos Anastasiadis granted an interview to FRANCE 24 from the capital Nicosia. The northern third of the Republic of Cyprus has been under Turkish domination since 1974. Anastasiadis said that Russia's invasion of Ukraine uses the "exact same arguments that Turkey used to invade Cyprus". Asked about tensions with Turkey over hydrocarbons, he expressed hope that Ankara will not "will not attempt to do anything that will cause conflagration and risk peace in the region".
1 hour ago
A picture on social media is being shared as alleged proof that Russian President Vladimir Putin has stepped up his security and wears a bulletproof vest. Also, some users, including politicians, are claiming that Russian soldiers burned Ukrainian history books. We tell you more in this edition of Truth or Fake.