The Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim Helu is the World’s richest person in 2010, beating Bill Gates and Warren Buffett according to Forbes Magazine’s annual list.
Forbes Magazine made the Billionaires’ List for the 24th time, at this occasion containing 1,010 names. For the third time in three years, the richest man is new. Owning last year the third place, Carlos Slim Helu with his $53.5 billion anticipated Bill Gates who was the last year’s winner. It is the first time since 1994 that a non-American is at the top, which is not at all a surprising as US economy is recovering more slowly from the economical crisis than certain other parts of the world.
Carlos Slim Helu, the 70-year-old Mexican mogul, raised his wealth with 53% ($18.5 billion) in the last twelve months beating Bill Gates with a close $0.5 billion. Slim presides over a varied empire of telecom, real estates, hotels, banking and owns stocks in about 200 companies. The son of a Lebanese immigrant, he succeeded in privatizing the Mexican national telephone company in the 1990s. Now he possesses the two giant telecom companies in Mexico named TELMEX and América Móvil, which hold the majority of the telephone market in the Central-American country.
This year’s billionaires hold a capital of $3.6 trillion that is a 50% increase from 2009. This year was a wealth mine for most of the richest people in the world as the average net is $ 3.5 billion, a $500 million increase from last year. In 2010, the number of billionaires raised with 220 that is still less than the 2008 record with 1,125 names. The silver-medalist Bill Gates with $53 billion is followed by Warren Buffett with his total fortune of $47 billion. Asia made big surprises this year as this region added 104 tycoons. United States has the biggest number of billionaires, a little more than 400, followed by China with 89 and Russia with 62.
Carlos Slim Helu, the 70-year-old Mexican mogul, raised his wealth with 53% ($18.5 billion) in the last twelve months beating Bill Gates with a close $0.5 billion. Slim presides over a varied empire of telecom, real estates, hotels, banking and owns stocks in about 200 companies. The son of a Lebanese immigrant, he succeeded in privatizing the Mexican national telephone company in the 1990s. Now he possesses the two giant telecom companies in Mexico named TELMEX and América Móvil, which hold the majority of the telephone market in the Central-American country.
This year’s billionaires hold a capital of $3.6 trillion that is a 50% increase from 2009. This year was a wealth mine for most of the richest people in the world as the average net is $ 3.5 billion, a $500 million increase from last year. In 2010, the number of billionaires raised with 220 that is still less than the 2008 record with 1,125 names. The silver-medalist Bill Gates with $53 billion is followed by Warren Buffett with his total fortune of $47 billion. Asia made big surprises this year as this region added 104 tycoons. United States has the biggest number of billionaires, a little more than 400, followed by China with 89 and Russia with 62.
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