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...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....
...The slide in the housing market hit Berkshire’s building products business, as well as its real estate broker and manufactured homes businesses....
...The purchase of the railroad operator will enable Canadian Pacific to launch the first rail network spanning Canada, the US and Mexico....
...She thinks governments should ban the collection of personal data and the sale of advertising and other products based on it....
...Its core operating businesses, which include the insurer Geico, BNSF railroad and the Dairy Queen ice cream chain, also improved....
...The Canadian runs the group’s sprawling portfolio of non-insurance investments, which include the Burlington Northern Railroad he once oversaw as chief and Dairy Queen ice cream....
...That would, in essence, turn the company into exactly what railroad and telecom monopolies ultimately became — regulated utilities....
...Now consider that their vaccines are the product of Operation Warp Speed, which by a mile was the best thing Donald Trump has ever done....
...According to an interview he gave to trade publication Trucks.com in 2019, his father was a manager at the Union Pacific railroad, and his mother died of cancer when he was a teenager....
...The question of founder fees and Spacs is subject of much confusion at the moment, as a mainstream audience is being lured into a complicated product....
...The group’s BNSF railroad reported a 6 per cent decline in revenues in the period, led by a drop-off in shipments of consumer products....
...shipments on its BNSF railroad....
...Sales at one of its largest units, the BNSF railroad, rose 2.5 per cent to just under $6bn....
...national product, during the mid-1850s....
...As any buyer of aeroplane tickets knows, we now search for products largely based on price....
...He later advocated a transcontinental railroad to speed up commerce and shorten the mail service to 10 days....
...They include BNSF, the US railroad group that he acquired in 2009, and Lubrizol, which produces speciality chemicals....
...Revenues from transporting coal were down 41 per cent in the second quarter, and from transporting industrial products were down 5 per cent....
...Data from the Association of American Railroads reveal startlingly low demand for carload and container shipments since the beginning of the year....
...Each generation’s cutting-edge technology inevitably fades into the everyday miracle, as the television, electricity and railroads once did....
...Meanwhile, the shares of several railroad companies fell amid worries about shipping volume in the current quarter....
...Shares in FireEye, which sells cyber security products, climbed after the company said it would pay $200m in cash to acquire iSight Partners....
...The low oil price, meanwhile, helped to depress once-buoyant movements of oil and refined products. The increase in intermodal shipments looks positive....
...Although Berkshire has no oil and gas subsidiaries, its railroad business transports oil, coal and agricultural products, and its manufacturing arm sells products to the shrinking oil industry....
...AIG Financial Products, the London-based unit that was insuring bondholders against default, ran amok....
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