Perspective is an investors greatest edge. As Carlos Slim Helú notes, understanding history sharpens our view of the present ...

Forbes magazine released the list of the richest people in the world and Carlos Slim Helú, the owner of the América Móvil, Telmex and Grupo Carso telecommunications group, is once again present as the ...

The 2026 Forbes Billionaires List is more Mexican than ever, with 24 Mexican billionaires joining the ranks of the world's ...

How's this for clout: Lebanese-Mexican Carlos Slim Helú controls over 200 companies, has a fortune estimated at $53.5 billion, and is responsible for about 7 percent of Mexico's economic output. He is ...

Nicknamed “El Ingeniero” (the engineer). His father was a Lebanese immigrant, as were his maternal grandparents. His father died when he was 13. Bought shares of the Banco Nacional de Mexico at 12. Is ...

The world’s second richest person Carlos Slim Helu invested $40 million in mobile audio app company Shazam. Carlos Slim is the man behind Latin America’s largest wireless carrier network, AmericaMovil ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Carlos Slim Helu is a Chair for the Grupo Carso with four videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2002 Forum as a Chair for the Carso Global Telecom. The ...

Dear Readers: We begin, as we do each week, with cojones, although the huevos in question deal with my column a couple of semanas ago... Dear Readers: We begin, as we do each week, with cojones, ...

Microsoft boss Bill Gates, the world’s richest man with $56 billion, and Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim Helu, who is now No. 2 with $53 billion, have one thing in common besides cool private jets.

Do you wish your weekend stretched past Saturday and Sunday? The richest man in the world thinks it should. Carlos Slim Helu, the Mexican telecom mogul worth nearly $80 billion, laid out his three-day ...