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US immigration
Shippers warn of disruptions as US responds to migrant surge from Mexico
...The parent company of Mexican rail company Ferromex, Grupo México, declined to comment....
December 19, 2023
US economy
US businesses warn of ‘economic disaster’ over rail strike threat
...Commuter rail systems in Chicago, northern Virginia and southern California also said they would suspend their service during a freight rail strike....
September 14, 2022
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Markets InsightFrancine McKenna
Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway needs to be broken up
...An independent Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad, with revenues of $22.5bn in 2021, would rank 129th by size in the Fortune 500....
April 27, 2022
News in-depthBerkshire Hathaway Inc
Berkshire jamboree highlights challenge facing Buffett’s successor
...Some shareholders said they were disappointed by the answers Abel offered to the questions directed his way, including over why the performance of Burlington Northern Railroad, which he oversees, had lagged...
May 1, 2022
News in-depthBerkshire Hathaway Inc
Berkshire succession: Abel confirmed as Buffett’s heir apparent
...Abel shepherds the company’s non-insurance investments, including the Burlington Northern Railroad, manufacturing businesses, and utilities he once ran as chief executive....
May 3, 2021
News in-depthGreg Abel
Warren Buffett’s heir apparent comes out of the shadows
...It owns a vast collection of businesses that span insurers such as Geico, the Burlington Northern railroad, furniture stores, car dealerships and electric utilities....
May 7, 2021
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Due Diligence
The Oracle of Edmonton: meet Buffett 2.0 Premium content
...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....
May 4, 2021
Berkshire Hathaway Inc
Buffett pulls back on banks and bets on drugmakers
...Berkshire, which owns the Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight rail operator and the insurer Geico, increased its wager on only one bank during the quarter: Bank of America, its second-largest stock investment...
November 17, 2020
FT AlphavilleJamie Powell
Stock splits: playing devil’s advocate
...In 2009 Berkshire announced the acquisition of railroad company Burlington Northern Santa Fe for $44bn including debt. The deal was paid with 60 per cent cash and 40 per cent Berkshire shares....
August 21, 2020
Berkshire Hathaway Inc
Stock market slide pushes Berkshire Hathaway to $50bn loss
...That decline more than offset the improvement in underlying earnings at Berkshire, which owns railroad Burlington Northern Santa Fe, insurer Geico and chocolate maker See’s Candies....
May 2, 2020
US employment
US jobs growth bypasses railway workers
...“If we think we can serve our customers well and get more efficient in the process, we will adopt whatever we observe,” Mr Buffett told the company’s annual meeting in May....
July 22, 2019
News in-depthWarren Buffett
Light on tech, heavy on banks — has Warren Buffett lost his touch?
...Its takeover of the Burlington Northern railroad was agreed in late 2009. A $5bn investment in Bank of America did not come until two years later....
June 15, 2020
Shale Oil & Gas
Activists target US oil patch’s trustees for life
...TPL has nominated Don Cook, 72, a retired four-star general of the US Air Force who has served on six boards of directors, including the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad, USAA Federal Savings Bank and...
May 1, 2019
US & Canadian companies
Berkshire Hathaway posts surge in profits
...Core businesses of the conglomerate like Geico insurance, the BNSF railroad and the industrials unit that includes Precision Castparts performed solidly in the quarter, each reporting earnings and revenue...
August 4, 2018
North America holidays
The fall and rise of small-town Arizona
...Situated trackside, La Posada was the masterpiece of architect Mary Colter, who for 40 years worked with Fred Harvey developing hotels along the line of the Santa Fe railroad....
February 28, 2019
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Public relations
Lucy Kellaway’s jargon awards: corporate guff scales new heights
...But the runaway winner was Ford CEO Mark Fields, who began the year with the depressing news that his company was “transitioning from an auto company to an auto company and a mobility company”....
January 8, 2017
FT AlphavilleSujeet Indap
Warren Buffett: A dream deferred
...Digging into Berkshire’s financial statements can reveal just how much the company is benefiting from the tax code....
April 29, 2016
John Kay
The Buffett model is widely worshipped but little copied
...A model railway represents the Burlington Northern Santa Fe network. Sadly, there are no discounts on NetJets, the pay-per-flight private aircraft operator....
May 3, 2016
Rail
Rail boss cautions against Canadian Pacific’s Norfolk takeover
...The Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Pacific railroads merged in 1995, while Union Pacific took over the Southern Pacific the following year....
December 11, 2015
US & Canadian companies
Canadian railroad merger efforts separated by a year of change
...“Norfolk Southern is now the outlier,” Mr Hatch says of how the company has suffered compared with others....
November 16, 2015
Rail
Ackman pressures Norfolk Southern board on CP rail deal
...A series of mergers in the 1990s left just Union Pacific and Burlington Northern Santa Fe in the western US; Norfolk Southern and CSX in the eastern US; CP and Canadian National in Canada; and Kansas City...
December 16, 2015
US & Canadian companies
Norfolk Southern criticises ‘highly conditional’ bid from CP
...The NS bid is CP’s second for another North American railroad under Mr Harrison. The company last October approached CSX but was rebuffed. ....
November 17, 2015
US & Canadian companies
Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway reports record profit
...Burlington Northern Santa Fe, operator of the US’s second-biggest rail network, also did well, reporting a 12 per cent increase in net earnings despite a 5 per cent decrease in revenues....
November 6, 2015
News in-depthOil
Commodities slide triggers ‘freight recession’ on US rails
...The secondary market for shuttle trains on the Burlington North Santa Fe and Union Pacific railways, which dart between the western farm belt and grain customers, illustrates the situation....
January 14, 2016
US & Canadian companies
Warren Buffett closes in on his biggest deal
...Mr Buffett’s largest deal to date was the takeover of the Burlington Northern Railroad in 2009, when Berkshire paid $26bn for the 77 per cent of the company it did not already own....
August 9, 2015

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