Buffett tops list of world’s billionaires
Reuters reports here: Warren Buffett, the famed U.S. investor who heads Berkshire Hathaway Inc, has replaced his friend Microsoft Corp founder Bill Gates as the richest man in the world, Forbes magazine said on Wednesday and the top ten are:
- Warren Buffett $62 U.S. Berkshire Hathaway
- Carlos Slim $60 Mexico Telecoms
- Bill Gates $58 U.S. Microsoft Corp
- Lakshmi Mittal $45 India Steel
- Mukesh Ambani $43 India Petrochemicals
- Anil Ambani $42 India Diversified
- Ingvar Kamprad $31 Sweden IKEA
- K.P. Singh $30 India Real Estate
- Oleg Deripaska $28 Russia Aluminum
- Karl Albrecht $27 Germany Aldi supermarkets