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Billionaire Among Us: How Mexicans See Carlos Slim

MEXICO CITY (March 13) -- How does a country battered by a lethal drug war and the worst recession since the 1930s react when one of its own, Carlos Slim Helu, is deemed by Forbes magazine to be the world's richest person? In a word, mixed. "There's no way for a country with so many poor to have the world's richest man...

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05/09/12 Cleary, Magic Circle Firms Advising on Carlos Slim's... Source: The American Lawyer (ALM) Allen & Overy is representing leading Dutch telecommunications group Koninklijke KPN on a $3.4 billion bid by billionaire Carlos Slim Helu's America Movil, Latin America's largest mobile carrier and a client of Clifford Chance and Cleary Gottlieb.
05/03/12 Harold Hamm Loses $1 Billion In One Day; Carlos Slim... Source: Forbes Oklahoma billionaire Harold Hamm lost more than $1 billion on Thursday after his Continental Resources (CLR) missed first-quarter earnings expectations, thanks to a 31% increase in capital expenditures.
05/03/12 Carlos Slim's America Movil Gets Reprieve On $1... Source: Forbes Carlos Slim Helu, the world's richest man, is likely breathing a sigh of relief after Mexico's antitrust commission overturned a $925 million (nearly 12 billion Mexican peso) fine imposed a year ago against telecom giant America Movil, Slim's most valuable asset.
04/24/12 Wal-Mart Clan Loses More Than $5 Billion In Two Days Source: Forbes The Wal-Mart bribery scandal in Mexico, tied to a New York Times investigative report , has dented the enormous wallets of the Walton family.
04/23/12 How Much is a Dragon Worth, Revisited Source: Forbes Last year, to quell lingering suspicions that we simply "make-up" the net worth numbers for the Fictional 15 , our annual ranking of the richest fictional characters, I decided to publish the calculations behind my evaluation of Smaug's fortune, the dragon from J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit (See " How Much is a Dragon Worth.")

Background on Carlos Slim Helu

Carlos Slim Helú (; born January 28, 1940) is a Mexican business magnate and philanthropist who is currently ranked as the richest person in the world in 2012. Slim has been ranked the richest person in the world since 2010. His extensive holdings in a considerable number of Mexican companies through his conglomerate, Grupo Carso, SA de CV, have amassed interests in the fields of communications, technology, retailing, and finance.

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