BILL GATES RECAPTURES WORLD'S RICHEST TITLE FROM CARLOS SLIM

The co-founder of Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), 57-year-old Bill Gates recaptured the title from Mexican investor Carlos Slim , according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, as the software maker hit a five-year high. It is the first time Gates has held the mantle since 2007. His fortune is valued at $72.7 billion, up 16 percent year-to-date. Slim’s America Movil (AMXL) SAB, the largest mobile-phone operator in the Americas, has dropped 14 percent this year after Mexico’s Congress passed a bill that could quash the billionaire’s market dominance. 

That’s helped erase more than $3 billion from the 73-year-old tycoon’s net worth.

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