比爾蓋茨重登世界首富寶座大綱

BILL Gates is once again the world's richest person.
比爾蓋茨再次成爲世界首富。

The 57-year-old co-founder of Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft Corp recaptured the title from Mexican investor Carlos Slim on Thursday, 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 US$72.7 billion, up 16 percent year-to-date.
這位57歲的總部設在華盛頓州雷蒙德的微軟公司聯合創始人週四從墨西哥投資者卡洛斯•斯利姆那奪回了這一寶座，據彭博億萬富翁指數顯示，隨着軟件製造商飆上五年來高點。這是自2007年以來蓋茨第一次重回這一排名。他的財富價值727億美元，比去年同期上漲了16%。

Slim's America Movil 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.
斯利姆的墨西哥美洲電信公司，美洲最大的移動電話運營商，在今年墨西哥國會通過一項法案以打擊這位億萬富翁的市場壟斷地位後，股價已下跌14%。

Microsoft shares have surged 28 percent this year, buoyed by cost controls and sales of business and server software amid weak demand for personal computers running the new Windows 8 operating system.
在對運行新的Windows 8操作系統的個人電腦需求疲軟之中，憑藉成本控制和商業、服務器軟件的銷售，微軟股價今年上漲了28%。

Berkshire Hathaway Inc Chairman Warren Buffett is the world's third-richest person with US$59.7 billion, according to the Bloomberg ranking. He is US$3.7 billion ahead of Spaniard Amancio Ortega, Europe's wealthiest person.
伯克希爾•哈撒韋公司董事長沃倫•巴菲特以597億美元的財富排名全球第三大富豪，據彭博排名。他比歐洲最富有的人Spaniard Amancio Ortega多37億美元財富

Ingvar Kamprad, the founder of IKEA, ranks fifth with a US$55.6 billion fortune.
宜家的創始人英瓦爾-坎普拉德以556億美元財富排名第五。