WORLD RICHEST MAN
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A Mexican telecoms tycoon has toppled Bill Gates, the Microsoft co-founder, as the world’s richest man after amassing a $67.8 billion (£33.6 billion) fortune.
Sentido Común, a Mexican financial website, has calculated that Carlos Slim Helú, a 67-year-old turnaround specialist, is worth $8.6 billion more than Mr Gates.
The rocketing share price of América Móvil, one of Mr Slim’s telecoms companies, helped to push him into first place, according to Sentido Comun’s founder Eduardo Garcia.
Shares in América Móvil, Latin America’s biggest telecoms company, rose more than 26 per cent in the three months to June 30. Telmex, another of the tycoon’s telecoms companies, rose 11 per cent and Grupo Financiero Inbursa, his bank, jumped by more than 20 per cent. Microsoft stock went up almost 6 per cent.
It is the second time that Mr Gates has been reported to have lost his crown. Three years ago Veckans Affärer, a Swedish magazine, said that Ingvar Kamprad, the Ikea founder, had become the world’s richest man.
Unlike Mr Gates, who stepped away from the day-to-day running of Microsoft in 2000, Mr Slim remains actively involved in his companies. His sons, Carlos Slim Domit, Marco Antonio Slim Domit and Patrick Slim Domit, run businesses within the group.
Telmex operates 90 per cent of the telephone lines in Mexico. Another Slim business, Telcel, supplies almost 80 per cent of the countryÂ’s mobile phones. Mr Slim acquired Telmex for $1.8 billion in 1990.
Mr Slim also owns Grupo Carso, an industrial company, with interests in shops and restaurants, most of which he bought during the economic crisis that hit Latin America in the 1980s.
The son of a Lebanese immigrant shopkeeper, Mr Slim was widowed in 1999. The name Carso comes from the first three letters of his name and the first two of his late wife, Soumaya Gemayel. -
si, habla espanol?
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wonder he need any godson?
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idiota!
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does he need a wife?
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hijo de puta
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I need a wifeOriginally posted by FireIce:does he need a wife? -
bill gates still rich....
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wow .....
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Im not a greedy person, I'd like to have only 1% of this guy's wealth. That's all im asking for~
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but mr gates hit the highest ever right?
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Aiya, Microsoft just chao chao come out a few new products per year, i.e Office new edition and window new edition, it's more than sufficient to make Gates the richest man again.
Cheers.
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i think god daughter lahOriginally posted by FireIce:does he need a wife?
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just give me bill gates' son will do.
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he got daughter lahOriginally posted by Cool-gal:just give me bill gates' son will do. -
but u dun smoke anymoreOriginally posted by Detached:I need a wife -
okay, she's mine.Originally posted by crazy monkey:he got daughter lah -
This is the man:
Carlos Slim Helú
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world richest man is in singapore lor...
he owns the whole country. including your everything. -
YAYA u are very funny about thatOriginally posted by digicharat:world richest man is in singapore lor...
he owns the whole country. including your everything. -
the top is slippery place.
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aren't we fortunate to be in the sturdy bottom?Originally posted by seotiblizzard:the top is slippery place.
less the dirt, pee and shit fall on our head from the top. -
give me .. 8b less than bill gates i happy liao
1 2 ranking...dont care -
JOHN D ROCKEFELLER = PAWN ALL!Originally posted by tut4nkh4m3n:but mr gates hit the highest ever right? -
Bill just got a rival, see who is gona hit the 1st trillion!