Billionaires get richer

Total assets of 300 richest people in the world in 2013 increased by $ 524 billion to $ 3, $ 7 trillion, from the data ranking Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Most others multiplied their assets chairman of Microsoft, Bill Gates. Its capital was increased by $ 15, 8 billion to $ 78, 5 billion. Microsoft shares for the year rose by 40%. Bill Gates in May, according to Bloomberg, took away the title of Mexican Carlos Slim the richest man in the world, including through the existing shares in the companies Canadian National Railway Co. and Ecolab Inc., whose shares for 2013 rose by 34% and 45%, respectively. Slim lost in 2013 $ 1, 4 billion. Quotations its telecommunications holding America Movil SAB in the first three months of last year tumbled 12% after the Mexican government passed a bill restricting the company's dominant position in the market. As a result, America Movil has completed 2013 increase in prices by only 2%. Total of 70 included in the list of billionaires for the year suffered financial losses. Antirecord put Brazilian businessman Eike Batista. His condition collapsed to $ 12 billion, and it ended the year in negative territory. In October, his oil company, OGX has filed a lawsuit on bankruptcy. Back in March 2012, Batista took eighth place in the ranking of world's richest people, Forbes estimated his fortune at $ 34 billion. He made statements that will soon become the richest man in the world, leaving behind Carlos Slim, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett. In second place in terms of growth of assets proved the founder of the world's largest companies to manage the casino Las Vegas Sands Sheldon Adelson. His fortune increased by $ 14, 4 billion. The shares of his company for the year rose by 71%. Revenue Las Vegas Sands for 12 months (by the end of September 2013) amounted to $ 13, 2 billion, 58% of which is accounted for revenues from casinos in Macau. Third place in the ranking went to the richest man in Spain, founder of trading empire Inditex Amancio Ortega, whose fortune is estimated at $ 66, 4 billion. Businessman in the past year has earned nearly $ 9 billion. The most successful in Russia in 2013 became co-owner of retail network "Magnet "Sergei Galitsky. His fortune is estimated at $ 13, 8 billion, last year it increased by $ 5, 3 billion. The richest Russian citizen still remains Alisher Usmanov, whose capital, according to the agency, for the year increased by $ 1, 3 billion to $ 20 billion. Most profitable industry for the year was high technology (28%). Most of all in the industry earned a founder and CEO of the world's largest social network Facebook Mark Zuckerberg: his condition has increased by $ 12, 4 billion, and the company's shares for the year rose by half. Analysts estimate that next year the situation will not change dramatically. "The rich will become richer in 2014. Interest rates remain low, the stock market will continue to grow, the economic growth will be about 2%," - said John Katsimatidis of the Red Apple Group Inc. 2013 for the global stock market was the best in the last five years. MSCI World Index has increased over 12 months by 24%, Standard and Poor's 500 Index gained 30% (this is the highest growth since 1997), Stoxx Europe 600 increased by 17%.