Video: Carlos Slim on Wealth & Happiness

June 7 (Bloomberg) -- CaixaBank SA, Spain's third-largest bank, sold a 3.7 percent stake in Mexican lender Grupo Financiero Inbursa to billionaire Carlos Slim's Inmobiliaria Carso. CaixaBank sold the stake for 387 million euros ($512 million) and ...

May 29 (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates extended his lead yesterday over Mexico's Carlos Slim as the world's richest person to $5.1 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Almost all of Gates's investments, including a ...

May 30 (Bloomberg) -- Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores SA, the Colombian banking group controlled by billionaire Luis Carlos Sarmiento Angulo, tumbled from a record high after announcing a plan to sell shares in the U.S. The company's shares fell 0.7 ...

Pier Carlo Padoan Chief Economist, OECD Photo - Bloomberg News London: The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) forecasts global economic growth will accelerate in 2014 with both the US and Japan continuing to outpace the ...

May 23 (Bloomberg) -- Grupo Financiero Inbursa SAB, the financial-services firm controlled by billionaire Carlos Slim, fell the most in 21 months after CaixaBank SA said it may sell half of its 20 percent stake. Inbursa dropped 7 percent to 27.31 ...

According to the he Bloomberg Billionaires Index , American billionaire Bill Gates has passed Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim as the worlds wealthiest man. Slim and his plethora of telecom monies has finally become no match for Gates and his tech ...

For the past six years, Mexican telecommunications tycoon Carlos Slim has sat atop Bloomberg's billionaire's ranking, which is updated every day based on the ups and downs of global share markets. But last Thursday, Slim's place on top was overtaken ...

: $28.7 billion (Bloomberg Billionaires Index). 9. Christy Walton Walton is a Walmart heir. Estimated net worth as of August 8, 2012: $29.8 billion (Bloomberg Billionaires Index). 8. David Koch Koch is executive vice president at Koch ...

June 18 (Bloomberg) -- Boeing Co. is to lead sales of Embraer SA's new KC-390 military transport planes in the U.S., the world's largest defense market, and some other countries as the planemakers expand their partnership on the jet. Boeing will ...