Ruling opens can of worms for Deripaska
When Mr Justice Christopher Clarke heard opening arguments in April for Michael Cherney’s case to bring his $4bn claim for a 20 per cent stake in Oleg Deripaska’s Rusal to ... Read more »
Former Refco CEO gets 16 years in prison
Phillip Bennett, the former chief executive of Refco, was sentenced to 16 years in prison on Thursday for fleecing investors of more than $2.4 billion in a fraud that destroyed ... Read more »
Billionaire Abramovich quits as Russia governor
Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich quit as governor of a remote Arctic region, ending what analysts said was a deal with former President Vladimir Putin to give something back to the ... Read more »
Leona Helmsley’s will valued at $8billion goes to the dogs
Sure, the New York hotelier and real estate magnate Leona Helmsley left $12 million in her will to her dog, Trouble. But that, it turns out, is nothing much compared ... Read more »
Buffett’s Berkshire Has Worst First Half Since 1990
It must be a bear market because even billionaire Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. has slumped almost 20 percent since December.The decline exceeds the drop of the Standard & Poor’s ... Read more »
Broad Says Economy in Worst Slump Since World War II
Billionaire investor Eli Broad said the U.S. economy is in the worst recession since World War II and a recovery in the housing market is “several years” away.“This is worse ... Read more »
Khodorkovsky Faces 20 Years in Jail on New Charges
Russian prosecutors have filed new charges against Mikhail Khodorkovsky that his lawyer said may add 20 years to the jailed former OAO Yukos Oil Co. billionaire’s sentence.Khodorkovsky, who is due ... Read more »
Buy-out fund reflects take-off in Africa
The rapid growth of private equity in Africa will be underlined on Tuesday as Kingdom Zephyr announces it has raised $325m for its latest pan-African buy-out fund with backing from ... Read more »
Wilbur Ross: Run-Up in Oil Prices Is a Bubble
The dramatic rise in oil prices is a bubble, famous turnaround investor Wilbur Ross told CNBC Monday, noting that there is no apparent supply problem with crude. While discussing his ... Read more »
Lakshmi Mittal joins Goldman Sachs board
Goldman Sachs Group said Sunday that billionaire steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal has been elected as an independent director at the world’s largest investment bank. Mittal, who is chairman and chief ... Read more »
Potanin Gets Majority Elected To Norilsk to Retain Control
Billionaire Vladimir Potanin retained control of GMK Norilsk Nickel’s board after a vote Monday by investors in Russia’s biggest mining company. Potanin, the largest shareholder, got four directors elected to ... Read more »
$630 Million Infusion From Russian Investor
Russian investors could be the new benefactors for Western banks seeking cash to shore up their shaky finances. In a sign that banks are looking beyond Asian and Middle Eastern ... Read more »
Jail For Billionaire In Sex Case
Billionaire investor Jeffrey Epstein today pleaded guilty to hiring underage girls for erotic massages and sex and will spend 18 months in a Florida county jail on the felony convictions. ... Read more »
HEIR TURBULENCE FOR RON’S LIL’ GIRL
Her father had a stroke, sued his ex-wife, saw his best friend die and brought home a new live-in girlfriend - all in the past year. And if that weren’t ... Read more »
Lunch With Buffett?—Just $2.1M
Chinese investment fund manager won the chance to have lunch with billionaire Warren Buffett by bidding $2.1 million in the most expensive charity auction ever held on eBay. Zhao Danyang ... Read more »
Sam Zell on the Economy
Billionaire Sam Zell, Equity Group Investments chairman discusses the economy and potential buyers of the Chicago Cubs. watch at CNBC here: http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=779979675
Uma Thurman, Arpad Busson engaged
Uma Thurman, who played the sword-wielding Bride in “Kill Bill,” is taking another stab at marriage, now that financier Arpad (Arki) Busson has proposed, her rep confirmed to the Daily News. Busson, who ... Read more »
SAC Shuts Sigma Debt Unit, Cuts Fixed-Income Trades
SAC Capital Advisors LLC, the hedge- fund firm run by billionaire Steven Cohen, is shutting the debt business of its Sigma Capital Management LLC unit as part of broader bond-trading ... Read more »
X5 Falls on Speculation Rogachev May Sell His Stock
X5 Retail Group NV, Russia’s largest food retailer, fell in London trading on speculation billionaire Andrei Rogachev may sell some of his stake after accepting company shares as partial payment ... Read more »
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett discusses the economy and InBev’s bid for Anheuser Busch, with CNBC’s Becky Quick
watch it at CNBC here: http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=778195470
The Mittal Monopoly: Britain’s richest man buys third property on Billionaire’s Row
In these cash-strapped times, it’s a lucky father who can afford to help his children on to the property ladder. Especially when the sums involved run into hundreds of ... Read more »
Eli Broad Pushing for Change at AIG
Billionaire investor Eli Broad is pushing for change at the world’s largest insurance company, and he discusses the issue with CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo. watch it at CNBC here: http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=776637391
Ask A Billionaire: David Azrieli
David Azrieli, a Polish-born developer, fled Europe during WWII for then Palestine, where he studied architecture at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.He moved to Montreal in 1954 and, after earning ... Read more »
Uralkali Billionaire Buys Trump’s Florida Mansion
Urals fertilizer billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev is the new owner of Florida’s most expensive house after paying U.S. property tycoon Donald Trump $100 million for the waterfront property. Rybolovlev, whose fortune ... Read more »
Soros, the Man Who Cries Wolf, Now Is Warning of a ‘Superbubble’
He has cried wolf many times, but this time George Soros says the beast is really upon us. Mr. Soros, the chairman of Soros Fund Management, is best-known as a ... Read more »
Breakfast with the FT: David Bonderman
It is 7.30am at the St Regis Hotel in New York and the Astor Court, where breakfast is served, is almost deserted. The St Regis is a staid Midtown hotel ... Read more »
The secret of Bill Gates’ success
As Bill Gates prepares to end his full-time work at Microsoft, he tells the BBC in an interview that it wasn’t just what Microsoft did, but what his rivals didn’t ... Read more »
Bill Gates Leaves His Full Time Job
Bill Gates ends his full-time job at Microsoft on a Friday afternoon and the company opens for business after the weekend as if nothing has changed. At least, that ... Read more »
Kerkorian increases stake in Ford to 6.49 percent
Billionaire investor Kirk Kerkorian’s Tracinda Corp. reported Thursday it has increased its stake in Ford Motor Co. to 6.49 percent and remains willing to consider supporting the automaker’s turnaround effort ... Read more »
Spielberg May Exit Paramount by November, Person Says
Steven Spielberg’s DreamWorks SKG film studio may exit Viacom Inc.’s Paramount Pictures as soon as November after securing outside funding, according to a person with knowledge of the plans.DreamWorks and ... Read more »
Ackman Foresaw MBIA Drop, Is Short Financial Security
Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, who correctly predicted shares of MBIA Inc. and Ambac Financial Group Inc. would tumble, said he now is betting against Financial Security Assurance Holdings Ltd.Financial ... Read more »
Paulson Says Writedowns May Reach $1.3 Trillion
John Paulson, founder of hedge fund Paulson & Co., said global writedowns and losses from the credit crisis may reach $1.3 trillion, exceeding the International Monetary Fund’s $945 billion estimate.“We’re ... Read more »
Trump: Oil Companies ‘Ripping Off This Country’
Oil companies are fixing the price of oil and should suffer penalties, according to developer Donald Trump. Donald Trump ... Read more »
Broadcom Co-Founder Pleads Not Guilty
Henry T. Nicholas III, the co-founder of the chip maker Broadcom pleaded not guilty on Monday to federal drug and securities fraud charges.The 48-year-old billionaire entered the pleas to 21 ... Read more »
Ambani rivalry could scupper MTN deal
When billionaire businessman Anil Ambani announced his bid to gain a controlling foothold in South Africa’s MTN last month, some people instantly smelt trouble. The planned reverse takeover of MTN, ... Read more »
Renault F1 boss Briatore weds Italian top model
Flamboyant Renault F1 boss Flavio Briatore married top model Elisabetta Gregoraci in lavish style here Saturday serenaded by British pop group Duran Duran.F1 chief Bernie Ecclestone himself witnessed the union ... Read more »
Rent-a-crowd get $500 each
BILLIONAIRE Perth-based Indian businessman Pankaj Oswal pays $500 a head for a rent-a-crowd. Mr Oswal rented the crowd to “defuse” protests surrounding his Pilbara fertiliser company Burrup Holdings. The 12-strong mob ... Read more »
India’s billionaire Ambani brothers slug it out in telecom row
India’s billionaire Ambani brothers are battling again — this time over a blockbuster deal being negotiated by the younger sibling Anil to create an emerging-market telecoms behemoth. . The long-simmering ... Read more »
Asian American billionaire gives to inspire charity in others
Steel magnate Cyrus Tang, once described by an Asian American news website as “the most secretive of Asian American billionaires in America,” recently spoke about his philanthropy to a reporter ... Read more »
Winehouse in Moscow
The troubled British singer Amy Winehouse performed for the Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich and his girlfriend, the model Daria Zhukova, at the opening of an art gallery in Moscow on ... Read more »
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