Billionaires
Billionaires poised to lose nearly a trillion dollars in two days
The world’s 500 richest people suffered the biggest two-day loss ever in the fallout from US President Donald Trump’s tariff announcements.
- Dylan Sloan
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- Opinion
- Elon Musk
Elon Musk just had his own Liberation Day
The merger of social media platform X with Musk’s artificial intelligence start-up xAI will allow him, his co-investors and X’s banks to exit the struggling business unscathed.
- Stephen Bartholomeusz
The Wall Street giant that turns its executives into billionaires
Blackstone has become a Wall Street powerhouse that manages over a trillion dollars worth of assets. It is sharing the spoils.
- Ben Stupples and Dylan Sloan
- Opinion
- Donald Trump
Trump’s dealmaking is all about him
Donald Trump is after personal and public hegemony for himself and the US, and he’s willing to tank the law, the Constitution and global alliances to get there.
- Timothy L. O'Brien
Trump slump leaves president’s billionaire friends $335 billion poorer
As Donald Trump took the oath of office on January 20, he was flanked by the likes of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg. They had never been richer. How things have changed.
- Dylan Sloan
The billionaire Elon Musk disciple protecting Earth from city-killing asteroids
Meet Jared Isaacman, a daredevil private astronaut and billionaire ally of Elon Musk who has been lined up by Donald Trump to lead NASA.
- Matthew Field
- Opinion
- Electric vehicles
From Trump bump to slump: Musk can’t dodge Tesla’s $1 trillion value loss
Elon Musk’s embrace of President Donald Trump and his de facto direction of the Department of Government Efficiency are creating a backlash.
- Liam Denning
The Wall Street CEO who earned $1.6 billion last year
Blackstone chief executive officer Steve Schwarzman’s windfall shines a spotlight on the billionaire’s wealth just as Washington takes aim at how private equity profits are taxed.
- Dawn Lim
Father-son feud plunges $28.5 billion family empire into crisis
An alleged boardroom coup attempt and a lawsuit between a family patriarch and his son – even by the standards of Asian succession drama, the family feud raging in this property dynasty stands out.
- Low De Wei, Yoojung Lee and Bernadette Toh
Spend my money ‘wisely’: Billionaire Warren Buffett’s pointed advice to Donald Trump
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett always offers some pearls of wisdom in his annual letter to shareholders.
- Josh Funk
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