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...Cleveland-Cliffs, which owns the mill at Indiana Harbor, has offered to buy United States Steel, which operates its largest works nearby in Gary, Indiana....
...The potential for a squeeze in corporate profitability is starting to loom larger for the investors and analysts who track USA Inc. It’s not hard to see why....
...According to the judge’s opinion, Mr Bauersmith’s counterweight was John “Freight Train” Ducker, the chief executive of Fresenius USA who earned the nickname for consistently over-delivering on profit targets...
...Minnesota Power, a division of Duluth-based Allete, said after the Supreme Court ruling that it planned to idle its coal-fired plant at Taconite Harbor from next year, and shut it in 2020, while adding new...
...It is one of the biggest delivery centres in Europe, sorting 90,000 parcels, or roughly 450 tons of freight, every night. However, not all companies regard the area with such enthusiasm....
...Freight (data breach in July involving customer records): and upmarket store chain Nordstrom (discovered skimmers on some of its cash registers in October)....
...Wholesale tea sales have grown from $1.84bn in 1990 to $8.2bn in 2011, and the retail industry is worth $27bn, according to the Tea Association of the USA....
...The CFTC alleged that they had been “engaging in manipulation and attempted manipulation” of Nymex light sweet crude oil, New York Harbor heating oil, and New York Harbor gasoline futures contracts in March...
...“Ask yourself what you can do to bring jobs back to your country, and your country will do everything we can to help you succeed,” he said, standing in front of a pile of crates stamped “Made in the USA”...
...Shares fell 2.9 per cent to $12.52, the latest losses apparently triggered by reports that as many as 5,000 of its PlayBook tablets had been stolen from a freight truck....
...New York Harbor heating oil barges....
...Most of these claims have as much validity as claims that the attack on Pearl Harbor was the work of Sweden!...
...A combination of congestion outside ports in China and Australia and delays in delivering ships on order has driven freight costs sharply higher....
...Networks planned for parts of the USA, particularly California, and some Arab countries could follow suit. The Shinkansen, though, is no longer the brightest star in Japanese rail’s firmament....
...It succeeded, the CFTC claims, five times – twice each in the widely traded West Texas Intermediate crude oil futures contract, twice in New York Harbor gasoline futures and once in heating oil futures....
...The €21bn in annual sales in the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) countries of the USA, Canada and Mexico – many of them to the region’s vast rail freight operators – currently place the region...
...Reprinted by arrangement with The Penguin Press, a member of Penguin Group (USA), Inc. Copyright (c) Alan Greenspan, 2007....
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