Wal-Mart heiress Christy Walton is the richest person in Wyoming, with a personal net worth ($36.7 billion) that is higher than her state's GDP ($31.3 billion). Her brother-in-law Jim Walton is the wealthiest in Arkansas, with a net worth ($34.7 …

There no shortage of skeptics about the economic outlook for China. Yet buoyed by some of the world's best economic growth, mainland China boasts a record 152 members of the 2014 edition of the annual Forbes Billionaires List. That's an increase from …

The nationalities represented on the list have also changed little. The US is still the world's biggest supplier of big billionaires, with 492 names on the world list, and the US added the most billionaires to the list this year, putting up 50 new …

Hindalco, controlled by billionaire Kumar Mangalam Birla, and Essar Energy, run by billionaire brothers Shashi and Ravikant Ruia, need the coal to cut costs. Ramakant Tiwari, chief executive officer of the Hindalco-Essar mining venture Mahan Coal Ltd …

The quickest way to become a young billionaire is to either inherit the money or have a hand in Facebook. That's what the latest Forbes World's Billionaires list shows. Of the youngest to make the cut, Facebookers past and present account for 42% of …

Forbes magazine announced its ranking of the world's billionaires Monday. Gates, who led the list for 15 of the past 20 years, won the spot back from Mexican telecom mogul Carlos Slim Helu, who had topped the list for the past four years. Gates' net …

There's more than 7 billion people in the world, but only 1,645 billionaires. Of that total, there's 37 who call Florida home. For those keeping score at home those 37 people are roughly one half of one percent of one percent of one percent of one …

In an unprecedented blow to billionaires Carlos Slim and Emilio Azcarraga, Mexico's Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT), declared phone companies Telmex and Telcel, as well as television giant Televisa, dominant in their respective markets and …

The average net worth of an individual on the Forbes billionaire ranking is $4.7 billion. Nine of the 13 Connecticut billionaires have built their fortunes through investment and capital management. According to Forbes, two-thirds of the billionaires …