On Tuesday, billionaire Carlos Slim Helu, who tops the Forbes World's Billionaires list, bought a stake in money manager BlackRock.
Then Carlos Slim Helu, the famous Mexican investor, aided by his stake in cell phone operator American Movil, wrested the crown from Gates.
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Prominent MCI investors, including billionaire Carlos Slim Helu, the company's largest single shareholder, have already indicated that the Verizon bid sells the company short.
Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim Helu , MCI's largest individual shareholder, has also said he doesn't think Verizon's offering enough, and could conceivably swing Qwest's way.
Whatever the conclusion of this saga, CVC (the private equity group that controls Formula One Group), NewsCorp, Carlos Slim Helu, and Ferrari declined to comment, reported Reuters.
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Analysts reportedly believe that Verizon will raise its bid, offering the same payout to all MCI shareholders as it promised to Carlos Slim Helu , the company largest individual investor.
Prominent MCI investors, including billionaire Carlos Slim Helu--the company's largest single shareholder--have indicated that they believe Verizon's bid is too low, and are pressuring Capellas to keep negotiations going.
Carlos Slim Helu of Mexico, the industrial titan whose holdings span telecom, banking, energy, tobacco and more, has built unimaginable wealth in one of the poorer countries in the Western Hemisphere.
Wall Street ended the day up more than 1% but the biggest winner among our real time billionaires was once again the richest person on the planet, Carlos Slim Helu.
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But the real winner in this battle may be Carlos Slim Helu Carlos Slim Helu , the Mexican telecommunications magnate who managed to turn his stake in a struggling long-distance company into over a billion dollars.
The big news this week amongst the 50 international billionaires whose wealth Forbes tracks in real time was that Microsoft founder and chairman Bill Gates officially overtook Mexican telecom magnate Carlos Slim Helu as the richest man on the planet.
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As the richest man in the world, billionaire Carlos Slim Helu has sent a message by omission, by not agreeing to the charity pledge put forth by the next two men on the Forbes billionaires list, Warren Buffett and Bill Gates.
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