07/10/2012
Rausing, 48, was the wife of Hans Kristian Rausing, heir to the TetraPak fortune his father built by creating a successful manufacturer of laminated cardboard drink containers.
07/10/2012
Legislation to thwart such abuses of the U.S. financial system has failed to get traction in Congress over the years, but two Senators are pushing it again this year.
07/09/2012
In 2003, Nicholas Newlife, an unknown British gambler, placed the equivalent of a $967 bet on odds of 66/1 with bookmaker William Hill, just after Federer won Wimbledon in his first Grand Slam victory.
07/08/2012
“I believe this is the first time [there has been such a scheme] only tailored for wealthy women,” Mr Du told The Daily Telegraph this week during a visit to Shanghai, one of the cities he is tapping for potential husbands.
07/08/2012
“It’ll be a fast transatlantic”: the word is out! With less than 24 hours to go till the start of the Krys Ocean Race, Sébastien Josse and his navigator, Antoine Koch, are checking the final details for the upcoming race. An eastb
07/08/2012
Emirates NBD, a leading bank in the region, announced today its sponsorship of the St. Andrews Youth Golf Camp, which is designed for young amateur golfers of 12-18 years of age from emerging golf markets
07/04/2012
Professional sports franchises are often discussed in the context of money – player contracts, labour disputes, purchase prices and the like.
07/03/2012
Magistrates are investigating claims that house staff of Liliane Bettencourt, heiress to the L'Oréal cosmetics empire and France's richest woman, handed over brown envelopes stuffed with cash to Mr Sarkozy and his aides to finance his suc
07/02/2012
Bloomberg Markets magazine asked six billionaires to give their input on what stocks/sectors might outperform in the next 12 months.
07/02/2012
Buffett and more than 100 of America’s entrepreneurs gathered in the Big Apple for a private discussion on ways to help solve the world’s “most intractable problems”, it said.
07/01/2012
The winner of the prestigious Gold Roman Bowl for first boat overall on IRC handicap was Tony Langley’s TP52 Manroland Sheetfed. Competing in IRC 0, Manroland Sheetfed was the second monohull to complete the course, finishing in 4hrs, 42mins and 12s
06/27/2012
A Swiss citizen, Haefner’s net worth was $4.3 billion in March, making him the 248th richest person in the world before his death.
06/27/2012
That’s an interesting contrast to the mass market, where new cars are costing less than year-ago levels.
06/26/2012
Every week could bring some new family hysterics, lawsuit, financial betrayal or personality struggle.
06/24/2012
Hennes & Mauritz, Europe's second-largest clothing retailer, surged 9.62 per cent for the week after the company posted its biggest profit increase in seven quarters.
06/21/2012
Previous media reports put the price tag at between $500-million and $600-million, but the price was not revealed in Wednesday’s filing.
06/21/2012
One of the biggest banks in the world wants the president’s favorite banker muzzled.
06/19/2012
Denis Abrams and a group of Benjamin Moore executives had gone on a company-sponsored yacht trip for a luxury dinner cruise to celebrate a rise in quarterly sales, the first in five years.
06/19/2012
No one who knew Rinehart would ever doubt her passion for her industry, but such a public performance was uncharacteristic. While she had yet to trouble the global rich lists, Rinehart was none the less, by 2010, Australia's wealthiest woman.
06/15/2012
The U.S. Open Championship is one of four major tournaments each year in golf. Like the Open Championship in Britain, the U.S. Open is a competition between the world's best amateurs and professionals.