The World's Most Powerful Female Billionaires

With the way she handled the Greek debt crisis and the strong performance of the German economy amid the euro crisis, it is not surprising that German Chancellor Angela Merkel is the world's most powerful woman. Forbes magazine confirmed that by ...

The 100 ladies on FORBES list of the world's most powerful women are politicians, CEOs, activist billionaires and celebrities, and all are at the top of their game. This year, several of our power women have a partner who is as equally influential.

| 12:49 PM ET Billionaire investor Carl Icahn says that hedge fund titan Jim Chanos of Kynikos Associates has missed something in shorting Dell. Hedge fund titan Jim Chanos has missed something in shorting Dell, billionaire investor Carl Icahn said ...

Even before Forbes placed Binod Chaudhary in its 2013 Annual Global Rich List, his love affair with Sri Lanka had begun with a foray into Colombo in 2000, when he acquired a substantial stake in the Taj Lanka Hotels, Sri Lanka. This longstanding ...

In the battle of the billionaire lists, Forbes has held the high ground for years. Now, Bloomberg Billionaires has taken a prominent spot in media coverage. That was boosted yesterday when the disgraced news service announced that Microsoft Corp.

Forbes magazine has declared that Cho Yang-Rai, chairman of Hankook Tire Worldwide, has joined the ranks of the world's billionaires. According to Forbes, which compiles multiple global and by-country lists of millionaires and billionaires, said ...

Billionaire Warren Buffett is warning against investing money in airline companies, according to a Forbes Magazine report. Buffett made the comments at the annual meeting of Buffett's Nebraska-based firm Berkshire Hathaway, the magazine reported on ...

Readers of Forbes may wonder, are those billionaires who can afford Feadship yachts, Graff diamonds and Lamborghinis really happier than the rest of us? Individual happiness, of course, is a complex thing. But those of you who are curious about the ...

Slim is the world’s richest person for the fourth year in a row, up $4 billion from our 2012 list. Pan-Latin American mobile telecom outfit América Móvil remains his most valuable holding, at $36 billion; the company spread its wings to Europe in the ...