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...The big four have gone from “scrappy, underdog start-ups”, the report says, to the “kinds of monopolies we last saw in the era of oil barons and railroad tycoons”....
...Scott’s efforts to create the second transcontinental railroad....
...The equity markets with which we are familiar came into being in the 19th century to finance railways and railroads....
...Oil refiners, railroads, airlines and banks are expected to be among the biggest beneficiaries....
...conservatives, as well as some members of the business community, have argued that it is a distorting regulation which prevents the ISPs that are laying the fibre for what is essentially the 21st century railroad...
...Yesterday, railroad company CSX reported slightly higher-than-expected earnings....
Snowfall impedes US travel but New York escapes worst
...Some observers have suggested that in the last few months severe congestion on many of North America’s railroads because of the sudden, unexpected spike in traffic was pushing some traffic that had left...
...Benham, who has died aged 103, forged a career as an influential railroad analyst at a time when women were regularly shut out of financial jobs....
...The $39bn purchase of railroad company Burlington Northern Santa Fe, Berkshire’s largest ever, is a prime example....
...Orient-Express is a one-of-a-kind company, an international collection of iconic hotels and exotic railroads....
...Bill Ackman, head of Pershing Square, earlier this year won a battle for control of Canadian Pacific, a venerable railroad company....
...US Class I railways – the biggest operators – moved 88,026 carloads of crude oil in the first six months of 2012, against 65,751 in the whole of 2011, according to the Association of American Railroads....
...Kids who grow up playing with railroad sets dream about owning the real thing. Now someone will have that chance....
...David Ader, head of government-bond strategy, CRT Capital LLC “Treasury yields have dropped sharply on the prospect of the fiscal cliff battle assuming centre stage....
...He joined UBS as an associate analyst in February 2003, following airfreight, railroad, trucking, logistics and shipping stocks....
...When Burlington Northern Railroad Company spun off its energy and lumber group, Burlington Resources, arbs simultaneously bought one stock while selling short the other....
...The move came as Standard & Poor’s said on Tuesday it would add Berkshire to its flagship S&P 500 index as the company prepares to acquire railroad operator Burlington Northern Santa Fe....
...It may not be as much fun as running a railroad, but at least you’ll know who to call if the lights go out ....
...In a call with investors, Wes Edens, Fortress founder, said the firms that Fortress had invested in, whose activities ranged from apartment buildings in Germany to a railroad in Florida, are asset rich and...
...Indeed, the only thing the week was long on was after-work events, starting with Calvin Klein’s 40th anniversary extravaganza on the High Line, a section of former elevated freight railroad....
...However, private equity firms have bought up several short-line railroads, including the Florida East Coast Railroad, which sold itself to Fortress Investment Group in May for $3.5bn....
...But the transport sector retreated as airline and railroad stocks showed weakness. The S&P 500 closed up 0.1 per cent at 1,469.72....
...Ed Burkhardt, who founded the company as an offshoot of his Wisconsin Central Railroad, said he believed DB might be more interested in obtaining EWS’s plentiful supplies of modern locomotives and wagons...
...The S&P railroads index jumped 6.2 per cent, led by Union, up 6.2 per cent to $91.07 and CSX, up 7.6 per cent to $59.46....
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