Gates, 57, was more than $550 million ahead of Carlos Slim, who has a $72.1 billion net worth. The co-founder of Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) has seen his fortune climb about $10 billion this year. The software maker’s shares hit a five-year high today, and have advanced 28 percent year-to-date.
Slim’s fortune has dropped more than $2 billion this year as Mexico’s Congress passed a bill to quash the market dominance of the 73-year-old billionaire’s America Movil SAB.
“When they’re talking about reform in a country that’s generally poor, and the guy shows up No. 1 on the list — not a good thing,” said Greg Lesko, managing director at New York-based Deltec Asset Management LLC, which oversees $750 million and has an “underweight” position in Slim’s flagship company. “He’s had a pretty good monopoly situation in Mexico, and the Mexican cellphone user has been paying more than he should. We applaud it for the country.”
Earlier this month, a group of kazoo-playing protesters confronted Slim when he appeared at an event at the New York Public Library, denouncing him for overcharging consumers to enrich himself. He denies the accusation.
Cascade Investment
The bill passed by Mexico’s Congress last month, which is backed by President Enrique Pena Nieto and is now before state legislatures, would allow regulators to break up phone companies with more than 50 percent of the market or force them to share their networks. America Movil (AMXL) has 70 percent of Mexico’s mobile-phone subscribers and 80 percent of the country’s landlines.
Gates’s fortune has also benefited from a rally in stock holdings that include the Canadian National Railway Co. and waste-collection company Republic Services Inc (RSG).
Most of Gates’s fortune is held through Cascade Investment LLC, a holding entity through which he owns stakes in more than a dozen publicly traded companies and several closely held operations, including Four Seasons hotels and Corbis Corp. Less than a quarter of Gates’s fortune is held in Microsoft. He’s donated $28 billion to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Bridgitt Arnold, a spokeswoman for Gates, didn’t immediately return a phone call seeking comment. Arturo Elias, Slim’s spokesman, didn’t immediately return phone and e-mail messages.
To contact the reporters on this story: Alex Cuadros in Sao Paulo at acuadros@bloomberg.net; Crayton Harrison in New York at tharrison5@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Matthew G. Miller at mmiller144@bloomberg.net

















Why is this campaign important to you?
This “man” is a serious threat to everyone and thing around him! Animals and people alike! Please contact your Legislatures, Senators and Congresspeople demanding for much more stringent laws pertainting to punishment of animal abusers. That’s how psychospaths start and then they move on to people! This guy has already done that! HE NEEDS TO BE REMOVED FROM NORMAL SOCIETY! Please speak up and make your voice heard!
Yes he is a male but not a Man. remember all men are males but not all males are MEN
This guy needs to die!
painfully.
Come to Wyoming asshole. Pedophyles are hung here. You sick MF.
LOCK HIS AZZ UP….NEEDS TO BE TREATED AS HE DID TO THE DOG…LET HIM FEEL THE PAIN.
he should get what he dishes out!
The dog has a right to life. I don’t know if your paedophile deserves this right. Taking a precious gift from someone , abusing them, is one of societies base crimes. Wilfully killing an animal that you are not deciding to eat and merely acting out of revenge, fun or malice ranks incredibly low in societies stakes. On the little I know of this case I would like to see the animal kingdom sit in judgement over him. I would also like to see him punished for all his crimes.
This guy obviously needs to be locked up. He is a danger to society. Lock him up and don’t let him out.
What a pathetic piece of garbage!
There are NO words that come even CLOSE to discribe this bag of scum! I would do the same things to him as he did to all of the animals he has tortured, BUT……I would do it very very slowly burning one part of his body at a time beginning between his filthy legs! CHE TU MORI AMMAZZATA STRONZZACCIO DI MERDA. NON MERITI DI VIVERE!
die a slow painful death and I hope you get past around in prison from gang to gang and your everyones bitch!
I am against animal cruelty. I have a dog which I love so much, when hearing of animal abuse makes me sick.
except it will get contuance after continuance untill they let him go like the perv that hurt our kids and now has a church.