The oil market paused to catch its breath yesterday. Crude fell to $130, after hitting the $135 mark. Gold, too, took a step back – falling $10 to $918. Stocks, meanwhile, advanced a baby step – the Dow rose 24 points. But we interrupt the news to …

Rajaratnam founded the Galleon Group hedge fund and became a billionaire, and was considered the richest Sri Lankan-born person in the world. Gupta rose within McKinsey & Company to become the elite consulting firm's three-term leader and the first …

The article "The Richest Fictional Characters and their Real-Life Versions" published recently by FinancesOnline.com profiles five of the most talked-about fictional billionaires – a powerful dragon, a ruthless lord of a realm, a futurist man-superhero …

There are really things in life that withers as quickly as it blooms. It also happens to entrepreneurs, including billionaires. There are plenty of billionaires who rose to financial success and then filed bankruptcy later on. Donald Trump could have …

West Virginian billionaire Jim Justice made his fortune in coal and agriculture and is revered in his home state as the man who rescued the historic Greenbrier resort from bankruptcy. Worth an estimated $US1.7 billion ($A1.78 billion), Justice is a …

Apollo, meanwhile, is run by a trio of billionaires: Leon Black ($4.3 billion), Marc Rowan ($2.1 billion) and Joshua Harris ($2.1 billion). Black is the 95th richest person in the U.S., while Rowan and Harris are tied at 243rd. The surprising …

Few billionaires have weathered as many scandals as former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, but recent court rulings in his “bunga bunga” sex case don't look good for him. On Monday, Berlusconi was convicted of paying for sex with a minor and …

NEW YORK The conviction of a onetime Sri Lankan billionaire on insider-trading charges was upheld Monday by a federal appeals court that concluded the government did not cheat to obtain permission to make its most extensive use of wiretaps ever in such …

When Bill Lerach's wife wanted to move from north San Diego's spacious Rancho Santa Fe area to the posh but relatively cramped La Jolla, he worried they couldn't find the land to accommodate his gardening habit—Mr. Lerach's primary occupation since he …