A new report from Wealth-X ranks states according to the richest person living there. What state tops the list? How many women rank as the richest individual in their state? Who's the least rich richest person? WSJ's Jason Bellini has #TheShortAnswer.

The stock is now a shadow of itself and the Brazilian (former billionaire) owner, Eike Batista, owes the loss of his super-one-percenter status to that one firm. OGX shares have fallen from a high of R$23 in Oct. 2010 to R$0.21 on Tuesday. Batista's …

About 150 wealthy Californians, including billionaire investor Charles Schwab, put up $29 million to defeat the California tax on the rich and to pass the antilabor act, but they didn't want it known they were behind it. So the money went to Americans …

Looking through Forbes' magazine's latest China's 100 Richest List reveals some interesting facts. Top comes Wang Jianlin, 59, worth US$14.1 billion (HK$109b), listed as having made his dosh from real estate, married and living in Beijing with one child.

"We have to move up towards the mass affluent, and even higher towards the premium consumer – the hundred billionaires in China, the million millionaires in China," Mr Thomas said. "This is where we can make some proper margins, where they are willing …

This time some very high-profile Americans billionaires are upping the stakes, betting big, taking a stand against Big Oil bullying with its trillions in profits and revenues from the last decade, a $140 million war chest to spend on an army of 797 …

The ex-wife of a Russian billionaire is asking $30 million for a waterfront compound in the New York borough of Brooklyn. Galina Anissimova, former wife of oligarch Vasily Anisimov, is selling the property which has two limestone mansions, a pool and …

Billionaire investors love fighting with each other over the markets, safely out of public view in sleek Greenwich or Manhattan offices. But a new political fight is pushing them into a high-profile debate over the future of energy consumption in the U …

Charles Blow, a New York Times columnist who himself grew up in semi-poverty, noted over the weekend that the United States is seeing a rapid explosion of billionaires – and of children who are going to school hungry. Not surprisingly, the hungry …