Stewart Horejsi's business was in a funk. It was 1980, and Brown Welding Supply LLC, his family's third-generation distributor of hydrogen and oxygen tanks, was battling competitors that were intent on expanding into the corner of Kansas he controlled.

Billionaires in bidding war for Brompton Road station. An abandoned London Underground station that served as the command bunker for the capital's anti-aircraft defences during the Second World War is being haggled over by rival billionaires. MoD to …

In 1999, when Rupert Hoogewerf, a chartered accountant, founded his China rich list as the annual flagship for the Hurun Report, there was relatively little wealth to speak of. China had no billionaires a decade ago. A year ago, there were 64. Last …

You can be a billionaire and not make Forbes' annual list of the 400 richest Americans, which was released Monday. Sixty-one billionaires didn't earn enough last year to make the cut. If you're rich in America, you have few equals. Your peer group is …

Oracle (ORCL) founder and CEO Larry Ellison was Silicon Valley's only billionaire to place in the top 10 of the annual Forbes 400 list of the richest Americans for 2013, but the total list included dozens of the Bay Area's richest residents. Below is a …

Twenty new billionaires from across the U.S. on Monday made it onto Forbes' 2013 ranking of the 400 richest Americans, but none of the newbies are from Fort Worth. Of course, Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton, 63, the richest Fort Worthian, who also has a …

In geographical terms, the US led on the list with 442 billionaires compared with 366 in Europe while growth in the wealth of the richest was down to stronger stock market and international property price performance, Forbes said. Download our Free …

Meet Three Billionaires Asking Taxpayers To Buy Them New Stadiums. By Travis Waldron on September 16, 2013 at 1:25 pm. Dolphins owner Stephen Ross is worth $4.8 billion, according to Forbes. CREDIT: Getty. Forbes released its list of the richest 400 …

Forbes List: World's Top 10 Billionaires. Comments. Email; Print; Font Size. Carlos Slim Helu is the world's richest man for the fourth year in a row. No1: Carlos Slim Helu is the world's richest man for the fourth year in a row. Download our Free …