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...Schiff rivalled John Pierpont Morgan’s standing on Wall Street — his reputation only enhanced when he orchestrated a rescue of Union Pacific Railroad in the late 1890s after Morgan had abandoned the assignment...
...Warburg Pincus also has telecoms expertise in the form of former Deutsche Telekom chief executive René Obermann, the firm’s co-head of Europe....
...The purchase of the railroad operator will enable Canadian Pacific to launch the first rail network spanning Canada, the US and Mexico....
...US railroad Union Pacific on Sunday said it would replace its chief executive Lance Fritz this year. Investcorp is opening an office in Tokyo....
...Having in the past briefed officials at the US military’s Indo-Pacific Command, her team has for the first time approached other parts of the security services....
...Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern both say they move a ton of freight 444 miles on a single gallon of diesel. The industry continues to invest to improve its sustainability....
...The Canadian-born executive retired from his post at CN in 2016 and later joined Union Pacific, the largest listed US railroad company, as chief operating officer and then senior adviser....
...TCI has recommended Jim Vena, who has worked at CN in the past and at rival Union Pacific, as the person to run the company....
...Both Canadian National and Canadian Pacific operate in the central and eastern US, as do CSX and Norfolk Southern, while Union Pacific and BNSF are present in the west....
...Davis Polk & Wardwell has gone as far as to deactivate the office ID cards of unvaccinated employees, according to reports by Law.com....
...Altria, the maker of Marlboro cigarettes, and Union Pacific, the railroad group, are also at risk of failing pay votes in the weeks ahead, according to report last week from Morgan Stanley....
...between large retailers, trucking companies, warehouses, railroads and freight companies....
...(FT) Railroad deal is the biggest of the year Canadian Pacific has agreed to buy Kansas City Southern for $28.9bn, including debt, in the largest takeover so far this year....
...His epiphany came at the age of six, he says, when seeing electric trains at the Union Pacific railroad where his father worked led to the vision of a pure electric freight truck....
...And As You Sow, a San Francisco non-profit that files shareholder petitions with investors, launched a “say on climate” proposal at US railroad Union Pacific too....
...Video of the day Mapping the urban sprawl A new look at antique US railroad maps reveals how cities grew over the past 200 years....
...“This year will mark a turning point in the US market and we will pursue a V-shaped recovery there,” Hyundai said....
...Maja Kocijancic, an EU spokesperson, told reporters on Friday that efforts were continuing to sustain co-operation with Iran in key economic sectors, including oil....
...With good reason, he frets about Britain’s post-Brexit friendship, and then mainly obsesses about the republic v monarchy in Australia....
...Mr Pham was a student of geology in Moscow when the Soviet Union was disintegrating....
...Twenty years later, J Cooke & Co, the principal backers of the Northern Pacific Railroad, went bankrupt, setting off a chain reaction that caused the Panic of 1873....
Concern rises as UK prepares to start process of leaving EU
...Sign up to receive FirstFT by email here Donald Trump plans on his first day in office to tell Pacific Rim signatories to the Trans-Pacific Partnership that the US will pull out of the trade deal, a signature...
...Hopefully she won’t make the mistake of her Brexit minister David Davis’ and mention “southern Ireland”. Politico looks at Brexit’s most dangerous frontier. Was it the Russians?...
...It inspired a European movement that led to the creation of the Common Market, and, ultimately, to today’s European Union....
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