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...Buffett’s sprawling conglomerate, which owns the BNSF railroad and Geico insurer, first invested in the iPhone maker in 2016 at the direction of one of his two investment deputies: Todd Combs and Ted Weschler...
...was putting $1.3bn into a plan to ensure that a fifth of its key ingredients are sourced through regenerative farming methods by 2025 and half by 2030, while PepsiCo partnered with trader Archer Daniels Midland...
...Utah’s treasurer Marlo Oaks said he liquidated $100mn in BlackRock funds, and Arkansas reportedly pulled $125mn this year....
...The Arkansas-headquartered company brought in about $172bn in consolidated net sales in the three months to January....
...annual letter on Saturday that there were very few deals that offer the kind of transformative impact past takeovers have had, such as its purchases of insurers Geico and National Indemnity or the BNSF railroad...
...There were, he said, few deals that offered the kind of transformative impact past takeovers have had, such as its purchases of insurers Geico and National Indemnity or the BNSF railroad....
...In 1894, Pullman workers went on strike after George Pullman cut wages, igniting a boycott that affected much of the US railroad network....
...In 2023, the prefectural government launched a co-operative effort that involved four mobility start-ups, the Toyota-affiliated company Jtekt and Nagoya Railroad....
...The Arkansas-based company’s results are closely followed as a gauge of the mood of US consumers, who have proven relatively resilient in the face of persistent inflation....
...The “Oracle of Omaha”, whose sprawling railroad-to-confectioner conglomerate is now worth $780bn, has enticed investors despite a quarter that revealed the negative effects of the cooling US economy on some...
...But investors said they would be closely scrutinising Buffett’s annual letter next February for any indications that change is afoot at the conglomerate, which counts insurer Geico and the BNSF railroad...
...The sprawling conglomerate is now worth more than $780bn, with stakes in Apple, Coca-Cola and Bank of America as well as ownership of the BNSF railroad and Geico insurer....
...The company’s operating businesses, which span the BNSF railroad, Geico insurer and aircraft parts maker Precision Castparts, reported a 41 per cent rise in profits to $10.8bn....
...The BNSF railroad, with more than 32,000 miles of track that run from Oakland, California to Chicago, showed a 12 per cent drop in revenues....
...Companies are struggling with labour shortages and some local residents are fearful of what changes the investments will bring....
...Arkansas-based Walmart was one of several large US retailers to report quarterly results this week, but the overall picture of the American consumer they have painted is mixed and blurred by company-specific...
...The deal will catapult Bunge into second place among the four global traders, who go by the shorthand ABCD, to include Archer-Daniels-Midland and Louis Dreyfus....
...Traffic on its BNSF railroad also fell at the start of the year, which the company blamed on lower imports from the west coast and the loss of a customer....
...But this year, Abel — heir apparent to lead the $710bn conglomerate that includes the BNSF railroad, private jet operator NetJets and insurer Geico, as well as the other public and private groups Berkshire...
...companies....
...The company’s underlying businesses, which include the BNSF railroad and Dairy Queen ice cream purveyor, generated a $6.7bn profit in the final three months of the year, down 8 per cent from the prior year...
...Midlands....
...The purchase of the railroad operator will enable Canadian Pacific to launch the first rail network spanning Canada, the US and Mexico....
...Revenues at its BNSF railroad surged 17 per cent to $6.5bn, but profits slid as the volumes of freight it shipped declined and it paid higher wages to its employees....
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