The Mexican businessman Carlos Slim Helu thisagain, among the 10 richest people in the worldaccording to an annual count of billionaires by the magazine Forbes.
Slim returned to number 8 on the list, thanks to the fact that América Móvil’s shares on the New York Stock Exchange rose almost 14% in 2022, making his fortune stand at almost 12 billion dollars.
The list is headed by French businessman Bernard Arnault, who owns the multinational conglomerate LVMH, which encompasses 76 luxury brands.
But in the case of the Mexican, according to the publication, the net value of his fortune is 93 billion dollars, whose source of wealth is telecommunications, as he is honorary and lifetime president of the boards of directors of Grupo Carso and América Móvil .
At 83 years old, and for the first time since 2019, Slim returned to the top list that includes the richest people on the planet.
Some of the “extra” movements that have also helped the richest man in Mexico was the sale of his mansion located in Manhattan, which is located opposite the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, which he sold for 80 million dollars, when he had paid half for it, when he bought it in 2010.
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