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...They include employees of the largest carriers in North America, such as Union Pacific, CSX and BNSF, a business owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway....
...The land lies on either side of the Union Pacific railroad, which originally received it from the federal government during the frontier era before its sale to Anadarko....
...The S&P 500 railroads index, which consists of CSX, Kansas City Southern, Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific Corp stocks, closed 0.6 per cent lower on the news....
...chief executive of Union Pacific, the US’s biggest freight railroad....
...In the western US, the two big railroads – Union Pacific and BNSF – have invested heavily in the region’s booming oil production....
...France, the US and multinational miners are staging a fightback in defence of oil, mineral resources, influence and markets....
...Jack Koraleski, Union Pacific chief executive, said strong growth in most of the company’s product areas had offset a 17 per cent decline in coal volumes....
...As China produced more and more of the world’s goods it developed a seemingly insatiable appetite for raw materials....
...More immediate hopes are pinned on Lynas Corp, an Australian company that has undertaken to supply Japan with up to 9,000 tonnes of rare earths a year from early in 2013....
...Stocks in railroad companies, which transport US coal to ports for export, were also buffeted. Norfolk Southern and CSX were both down 8 per cent, and Union Pacific fell 6 per cent....
...the export of rare-earth materials, 17 minerals used in the high-tech industry....
...However, the company said: “We are adjusting production to match and meet our customers’ needs”....
...The takeover, which is the biggest acquisition made by Berkshire, prompted a rally in other US rail companies, pushing Union Pacific up 7.9 per cent to $59.41 and CSX up 7.3 per cent to $45.97....
...Steel companies had a good week on hopes of stronger demand and cheaper raw materials....
...Rio Tinto, the mining company with almost as many holes in its balance sheet as holes in the ground, upset some Australians when it established its headquarters in London following the 1995 union of RTZ...
...Pradhan Mantri Adarsh Gram Yojana (PMAGY) (v) There are about 44,000 villages in which the population of Scheduled castes is above 50 per cent....
...strength, cash-rich and eager to secure the best mineral deposits....
...Just four years ago, an economic slowdown like that now under way in the US would have produced long faces and worried expressions at the headquarters of Union Pacific, the US’s largest railroad by annual...
...Its productivity was so dismal that Nestlé claimed workers at its Italian mineral water company San Pellegrino were four times more productive than their French counterparts....
...A number of stocks were in the spotlight on Wednesday when Berkshire Hathaway , Warren Buffett’s investment company, said it had invested in Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific , two railroads, and also...
...The two biggest operators – Union Pacific and BNSF – are both among the 10 biggest providers of corporate jet travel to members of Congress, according to PoliticalMoneyLine, which tracks money in politics...
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