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...In June, Caterpillar, known for its bright yellow earthmoving equipment, decided to shift its base from a Chicago suburb to a city near Dallas....
...Indeed, a “significant proportion” of eBay’s UK watch listings are from vintage dealers, rather than private individuals, the company says....
...The service now has roughly 90,000 patients on its books, making it the largest GP “practice” in England....
...Unlike traditional automakers who sell their cars directly to dealers shortly after they are manufactured, Tesla runs its own dealership network and therefore holds inventory on its books for marginally...
...Buffett’s plain-dealer persona is an integral part of the Berkshire enterprise....
...Thousands of gleaming trucks wait on railcars to be shipped to auto dealers around the US....
...Mike Pence, vice-president, is due to visit Iowa on a tour of bedrock Trump voters in the Midwest on Wednesday....
...Dealers cited worries that the sharp sell-off may have caught out Man’s algorithmic trend-chasing funds such as AHL Evolution, which targets markets where liquidity is tight....
...Whereas the cost of smoking was largely limited to medical bills, drug addiction is putting pressure on an array of public services, from children’s care to prisons and policing....
...Investors and dealers in industrial equipment appear convinced by the Trumpian vision....
...Employees use computers and other equipment supplied, configured and run by the company, which means their data are easier to secure and monitor....
...According to the report, Caterpillar bought parts and resold them to dealers overseas, assigning the profits to the Swiss subsidiary and lowering its US taxes....
...Citi has said in public documents that the group added a network of broker dealer customers to its existing base of institutional, broker dealer and retail customers....
...The deal raised about $253m for shareholders including broker dealer Instinet, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Citigroup and KCG Holdings....
...IHS announced in late December it had agreed to pay $650m to purchase Carproof, a Canadian company that provides automotive vehicle history reports to dealers, auto auctions, original equipment manufacturers...
...GM has invested $500m in Lyft, the ride-sharing service, and is helping it to develop plans for driverless taxis. “It has a business case for fleet operation,” Mr Mudalige said....
...Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway is closing in on its biggest acquisition as it negotiates a deal worth about $30bn to buy Precision Castparts, an aerospace equipment maker, people familiar with the matter...
...said in a regulatory filing on Friday: “We attribute operational improvements [at BNSF] to capacity added in 2014 through capital investments for line expansion, system improvement projects, additional equipment...
...You’ve got animal slaughter equipment. You’ve got rail cars and the question of, should they be double-walled when they’re transporting oil?...
...“It certainly gets the dealer’s attention when they don’t have to worry about whether their customer is making any money.” Where will it end?...
...More prosaically known as “drilled but uncompleted” or “waiting on completions”, these wells still need to be fracked and fitted with production equipment for the oil to flow....
...“Fordism was never really applied to service workers,” said Ravi Palat, a professor of sociology at Binghamton University in New York....
...First, there are savings from putting pressure on suppliers of drilling rigs, hydraulic fracturing and other services....
...“You’re going to see the trains coming out quicker,” Bob Wentz, general manager of Bakken Transload, a terminal handling equipment and other supplies for the North Dakota shale industry....
...At the end of last year the dream of a weekly non-stop service from New York to St Petersburg was alive....
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