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Saturday, April 17, 2004

Interesting effect of currency valuation changes:

Ingvar Kamprad, the Swede who founded furniture retail chain IKEA, has overtaken Microsoft's Bill Gates as the world's richest man, Swedish TV news reported on Sunday.
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SVT2 said the dollar's slide against other currencies is the main reason why Kamprad has now overtaken Gates

By al - 12:38 p.m. |

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