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May 14 (Bloomberg) -- Naruatsu Baba, the 35-year-old founder of Japanese smartphone game maker Colopl Inc., has become one of the youngest billionaires in the world as Colopl stock leaped sevenfold since its December initial public offering. The ...

(Corrects date in third paragraph.) April 30 (Bloomberg) -- Billionaire Eike Batista's OGX Petroleo e Gas Participacoes SA, which lost as much as 90 percent in the past year, is the world's best-performing major stock in the last four days amid ...

Ingrad Kamprad, the founder of Swedish furniture giant Ikea, finished fifth on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index published on Friday, with an estimated fortune of $55.6 billion. Kamprad was the second wealthiest European on the list, after Spain's ...

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the richest of them all? According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index released this week, Microsoft founder Bill Gates has just edged past Mexican mogul Carlos Slim, who's lost more than a few pounds since ...

Ferrero ranks 27th, Luxottica eyewear baron 37th (ANSA) - Rome, May 17 - Michele Ferrero, whose eponymous company makes the much-loved hazelnut and chocolate spread Nutella, became the first Italian to make it into the Bloomberg Billionaires Index ...

May 17 (Bloomberg) -- Asia's benchmark stock index fell for a second day as companies from WorleyParsons Ltd. to Nippon Sheet Glass Co. forecast weaker earnings and data on jobless claims and housing signaled a slowdown in the U.S. WorleyParsons, ...

Billionaire investor George Soros joined Northern Trust Corp. and BlackRock Inc. in cutting holdings of exchange-traded products backed by gold before a bear market in prices last month, while John Paulson maintained a stake that lost about $165 ...

(Updates with comment from analysts in fourth paragraph.) May 17 (Bloomberg) -- Philippine billionaire John Gokongwei is planning an initial public offering of Robinsons Retail Group, the operator of supermarkets and department stores, said three ...

May 14 (Bloomberg) -- Hong Kong stocks retreated, with the Hang Seng Index capping its biggest two-day drop in a month, as Chinese shares slid on concern about economic growth in Asia's largest economy. Weichai Power Co., a Chinese maker of diesel ...