While 499 other billionaires have struggled to add to their fortunes this year, the world’s third richest man has made a whopping $60 billion. With a total net worth of $137 billion, Indian-born Gauta...
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WeWork’s Adam Neumann secures millions in funding for his new company Flow
Adam Neumann is back. The billionaire businessman who founded office-sharing company WeWork Inc. WE, -4.70% is back with another company called Flow, a residential real estate company attempting to ad...
Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, billionaire investor dubbed India’s Warren Buffett, dies at 62
NEW DELHI — Veteran stock market investor and Indian billionaire Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, nicknamed India’s own Warren Buffett, died Sunday in Mumbai city, Press Trust of India news agency reported. He wa...
Alibaba Added to SEC Delisting Watchlist. One More Reason the Stock Is Slumping.
Text size Alibaba shares have slumped since the company said it would apply for a primary listing in Hong Kong. (Photo by GREG BAKER/AFP via Getty Images) Shares of Alibaba , the Chinese e-commerce gi...
Buffett Bought More of Occidental. Here’s What Happened With HP, Citi, Coke.
Text size Warren Buffett has losses as well as wins on his record of stock picking. AFP via Getty Images Billionaire investor Warren Buffett disclosed that he has increased his stake in Occidental Pet...
Ken Griffin Moving Citadel From Chicago to Miami Following Crime Complaints
Billionaire Ken Griffin is relocating his hedge-fund firm Citadel from Chicago to Miami, the third major employer to announce the move of a corporate headquarters from Illinois in the past two months....
The Crypto Party Is Over
On Super Bowl Sunday, a Crypto.com ad featuring billionaire NBA star LeBron James lit up millions of Americans’ TVs. “If you want to make history, you gotta call your own shots,” Mr. James said in the...
Cosmetics Maker Revlon Nears Chapter 11 Filing
Revlon Inc. is preparing to file for chapter 11 protection as soon as next week after struggling for years with too much debt, stiff competition in the cosmetics business and more recent inflation and...
Fayez Sarofim, Buffett-Style Investor and Art Collector, Dies at 93
Fayez Sarofim, an Egyptian immigrant who built a successful investment firm with an approach similar to Warren Buffett’s, died in Houston on Saturday at age 93. Sarofim, who became a billionaire, had ...
‘Markets are imploding’ because the Fed isn’t doing its job, says billionaire investor Bill Ackman
“‘How does this downward market spiral end? It ends when the Fed puts a line in the sand on inflation and says it will do “whatever it takes.”’” — Bill Ackman, founder and CEO, Pershing Square Capital...
Americans are still saving for retirement — and becoming 401(k) millionaires
Americans may be afraid to look at their retirement accounts thanks to stock market volatility, but many investors are still staying the course, according to Fidelity Investments’ most recent data rel...
Soros fund doubles down on Rivian bet, buys stakes in Lucid, Nio
Billionaire George Soros’s investment fund has doubled down on its bet on Rivian Automotive Inc. and taken new positions on EV makers Nio Inc. and Lucid Motors Inc., according to a filing late Friday....
Mark Cuban: ‘Crypto is going through the lull that the internet went through’
Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban thinks that cryptocurrency is on the same downswing that tech and internet companies hit in the early 2000s. Bitcoin hit a 10-month low as U,S. stocks continued to ...
The housing market is running hot. Can the Fed cool it before it crashes?
When the “Bond King” Bill Gross sat down recently with Barry Ritholtz for an episode of “The Big Picture” podcast, the billionaire investor and PIMCO founder took a pretty skeptical view of who might ...
Credit Suisse Warns of $500 Million Hit From Billionaire’s Lawsuit
Credit Suisse CS 0.49% Group AG is expected to pay around $500 million after losing a lawsuit brought by a Georgian billionaire who claimed the bank mismanaged his money. Credit Suisse has spent years...
Elon Musk Has Sold Seven Homes for Nearly $130 Million After Vowing to ‘Own No House’
It’s been almost two years since Elon Musk announced a plan to sell nearly all of his physical possessions, including his real estate, by tweeting “Will own no house” on May 1, 2020. The billionaire T...
Chewy Co-Founder Ryan Cohen Takes Large Stake in Bed Bath & Beyond, Pushes for Changes
Ryan Cohen, the billionaire co-founder of online pet-products retailer Chewy Inc., CHWY 2.91% has a big stake in Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. BBBY -3.40% and is pushing the housewares retailer to stream...
‘You should publicly announce where the money is going to’: Elon Musk gave $5.7 billion in Tesla stock to charity, but the beneficiaries may forever remain a secret
Elon Musk will happily broadcast a few choice words about U.S. senators, but he’s quieter when it comes to his philanthropy. There’s a good chance the public may never know which charity or charities ...
Opinion: How to invest like a millionaire and build wealth for retirement
Over the course of my career, I’ve had the opportunity to work with multiple self-made millionaires. Though they come from varied backgrounds, these investors have a few key habits in common—ones that...
Billionaire George Soros reveals stake in Rivian, sells some tech shares
Billionaire George Soros’ investment fund has taken a more than $1 billion stake in electric-pickup maker Rivian Automotive Inc. According to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Fr...
Biden’s Wealth Tax Proposal Would Target More Than Billionaires
Text size President Joe Biden’s new budget proposal includes a wealth tax it says would target the top 0.01% of households. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images About the author: Thomas Hoenig is a dist...