Shanghai, Nov 5 (IANS) Wang Chuanfu, chairman of electric car and battery maker BYD, has become China's richest person, according to an annual rich list released by Forbes Thursday. Wang leapt 23 places ...

Washington, Nov 5 (IANS) India's purchase of 200 tonnes of gold for $6.7 billion from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) "shows central banks are getting on board with the idea that the ...

By Arun Kumar Washington, Nov 4 (IANS) India's purchase of $6.7 billion worth of gold from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is a pointer that New Delhi sees a dim future for the ...

Fort worth, Nov 3 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway(NYSE:BRK.A) announced that it would buy the remaining 80% stake in railroad giant Burlington Northern Santa Fe(NYSE:BNI). Berkshire already had a 20% ...

New York, Nov 3 (DPA) Legendary US investor Warren Buffett has spent a record $44 billion buying an American rail freight company, in the largest transaction in the history of his Berkshire ...

Fort Worth, Nov 3 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway(NYSE:BRK.A) announced that it would buy the remaining stake in railroad giant Burlington Northern Santa Fe(NYSE:BNI). This particular deal is estimated at approximately ...

Beijing, Oct 13 (IANS) China's super-rich have bounced back from the financial crisis, and the country now has more known dollar billionaires than any other nation except the US, a study released ...

By Arun Kumar Washington, Oct 1 (IANS) Four Indian Americans are among America's super-rich with Microsoft Corp co-founder Bill Gates still holding the top spot on the Forbes 400 list of wealthiest Americans ...

New York, July 28 (IANS) Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen and US billionaire Warren Buffett are aiming to teach kids about environment and finance respectively in a new series of online shows. They join ...

New York, May 5 (IANS) Warren Buffett may have sagely advice on investment in any number of fields, but one area he says he won't touch these days is the newspaper industry. 'The ...

By Sid Astbury Sydney, March 30 (DPA) The global financial crisis has done wonders for the dismal science of economics. From Anchorage to Ankara the spooky talk about global warming has given ...

New York, Mar 12 (ANI): Forbes magazine study has revealed that Microsoft Corporation co-founder Bill Gates has reclaimed the title of the richest man in the world, with a total net ...

By Arun Kumar Washington, March 12 (IANS) Despite losing $18 billion over the last 12 months, Bill Gates has reclaimed his title as the richest man in the world with a total net ...

On Thursday, the ranking released by the people and the amount has a record $1.25 trillion, compared to $1.13 trillion last year. The Forbes magazine's list of the 400 richest Americans consisting ...

By Arun Kumar Washington, March 11 (IANS) Mukesh and Anil Ambani, steel czar Lakshmi Mittal and K.P. Singh, now the richest real estate baron, have been named by Forbes as the four Indians ...

Washington, Mar 10 (ANI): Twenty-four Indians have made it into the Forbes magazines list of Worlds Richest with Steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal in fourth place. Four Indians made it to the top ...

New york, Mar. 10 (ANI): Americas billionaire investor Warren Buffett has likened the current global meltdown to an economic Pearl Harbor, and doesn''t expect the US economy to recover anytime soon. ...

New York, March 10 (DPA) Major US stock indices closed lower Monday, after the World Bank said it expects the global economy to shrink this year and billionaire Warren Buffett offered another ...

Ajit Jain, the president of Berkshire Hathaway’s re-insurance group in Stamford, Connecticut, has long been on industry watchers list of successors to Warren Buffett before the legendary investor praised him in a ...

New Delhi, Nov 20 (IANS) Thomas L. Friedman's "Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why the World Needs a Green Revolution - and How …" remains at the top of the non-fiction bestseller list ...

Washington, Nov 8 (IANS) US President-elect Barack Obama has vowed to confront one of the greatest economic challenges facing the country head-on once he takes office in January.Until then, he would work ...

Washington, Nov 8 (IANS) US President-elect Barack Obama has vowed that restoring the nation's economic equilibrium will be a major priority of his administration as it works to ease credit crisis, help ...

Washington, Nov 8 (IANS) US president-elect has vowed to ease credit crisis, help American families and restore growth and prosperity as the country faces the "greatest economic challenge of our lifetime"."We are ...

New Delhi, Nov 3 (IANS) Microsoft founder Bill Gates will launch a major initiative for India's public healthcare here Wednesday with a special focus on polio eradication, said officials at his philanthropic ...

By Liliana Martinez-Scarpellini Los Angeles, Nov 3 (DPA) Barack Obama has promised to increase taxes if he becomes president of the United States. But the really rich want change and many of ...

New Delhi, Oct 31 (IANS) Thomas L. Friedman's "Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why the World Needs a Green Revolution - and How …" is the new entrant at the top of the ...

New Delhi, Oct 22 (IANS) Aravind Adiga's Booker prize winner debut novel "The White Tiger" climbed to the top of the bestseller charts in the fiction category this week, while "Empires of ...

New York, Oct 21 (DPA) Giant energy company Exelon Corp., the country's largest utility, has made an uninvited bid to acquire NRG Energy Inc. for $6.2 billion, following billionaire investor Warren Buffett's ...

Washington, Oct 18 (DPA) US stocks dropped on Friday, closing out a wild week that saw most major indices make strong gains amid uncertainty and recessionary fears among US investors.US stocks had ...

New Delhi, Oct 17 (IANS) "Empires of the Indus" is the new bestseller in the non-fiction group this week, while "Brisingr" by Christopher Paolini is on the top of the charts in ...