World's Richest

What's the difference between Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos? Less than $5 billion. According to a Bloomberg report, Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN)'s founder and CEO Bezos is worth $3.3 billion more on Friday than he was on Thursday at $79.0 billion after the company's earnings report sent shares...

The combined fortune of every billionaire in the planet is a mind-boggling $8 trillion, up 16 percent from a year ago. According to the Hurun Global Rich List 2017, there are 2,257 billionaires in the world — 69 more than there were a year ago and 804 more compared to five years ago. For the...