Mergers are all the rage in Corporate America again. Healthy companies are looking to take advantage of their strong balance sheets and surging stock prices to strike while the iron is hot.
Stocks struggled Tuesday, ending mixed, as investors mulled improved auto sales, surging commodity prices and Warren Buffett's buyout of railroad Burlington Northern Santa Fe.
Warren Buffett said he's making an "all-in wager on the economic future of the United States" with the purchase of railroad Burlington Northern Santa Fe. Let's hope it's a bet that Buffett wins.
Oil erased earlier losses and gained on Tuesday as investors responded to Warren Buffett's $44 billion investment in U.S. railway operator Burlington Northern Santa Fe.
The dollar rose against rival currencies Tuesday as weakness in global stock markets and concerns about the banking sector boosted demand for the greenback as a safe haven.
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway said Tuesday it will buy railroad operator Burlington Northern Santa Fe for $44 billion.
Rain or shine, 80-year-old Cookie Williams plops himself on the wooden viewing platform perched over double train tracks.
High energy prices have started to put a dent in corporate profits. But surprisingly, one industry that relies heavily on oil has not been hurt: the railroads. Most of the nation's top railroad companies have chugged along with strong sales and earnings increases in 2008, their results stoked by rising demand for transporting food and coal.
More than 3,000 people were evacuated in Lafayette, Louisiana, on Saturday after two of six derailed train cars containing highly corrosive hydrochloric acid began leaking, authorities said Saturday.
Despite overwhelming signs that the economy is now in a recession, some investors are increasingly pondering another 'R' word: Recovery.
Mergers are all the rage in Corporate America again. Healthy companies are looking to take advantage of their strong balance sheets and surging stock prices to strike while the iron is hot.
Stocks struggled Tuesday, ending mixed, as investors mulled improved auto sales, surging commodity prices and Warren Buffett's buyout of railroad Burlington Northern Santa Fe.
Warren Buffett said he's making an "all-in wager on the economic future of the United States" with the purchase of railroad Burlington Northern Santa Fe. Let's hope it's a bet that Buffett wins.
Oil erased earlier losses and gained on Tuesday as investors responded to Warren Buffett's $44 billion investment in U.S. railway operator Burlington Northern Santa Fe.
The dollar rose against rival currencies Tuesday as weakness in global stock markets and concerns about the banking sector boosted demand for the greenback as a safe haven.
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway said Tuesday it will buy railroad operator Burlington Northern Santa Fe for $44 billion.
Rain or shine, 80-year-old Cookie Williams plops himself on the wooden viewing platform perched over double train tracks.
High energy prices have started to put a dent in corporate profits. But surprisingly, one industry that relies heavily on oil has not been hurt: the railroads. Most of the nation's top railroad companies have chugged along with strong sales and earnings increases in 2008, their results stoked by rising demand for transporting food and coal.
More than 3,000 people were evacuated in Lafayette, Louisiana, on Saturday after two of six derailed train cars containing highly corrosive hydrochloric acid began leaking, authorities said Saturday.
Despite overwhelming signs that the economy is now in a recession, some investors are increasingly pondering another 'R' word: Recovery.
Want to invest in a green industry that employs the latest technology, reduces U.S. oil consumption and is priced very attractively? Look no further than the railroads. Laggards for decades after the 19th-century boom ended, they're hot again.
The stock market is in turmoil. Fears of a recession are rising. And experts question whether the Federal Reserve's big interest-rate cuts are enough to save the economy. Does that mean you need to be doing a dozen things right now to protect your investments?
A host of well-known companies are leaving themselves open to shareholder lawsuits because they're not telling investors enough about how much they contribute to global warming or what it might cost them to clean up, according to a recent report.
Recent reports of an ethanol bust may be greatly exaggerated.
Recent reports of an ethanol bust may be greatly exaggerated.
U.S. stock futures were stronger Friday as positive earnings news helped investors push inflation worries aside.
Warren Buffett's interest in railroads certainly isn't waning.
U.S. stocks took a big step forward at the start of trading Friday, as investors got a lift from some corporate earnings
U.S. stocks were ready to retreat at Wednesday's open as several days of advances may have investors uneasy ahead of some key economic reports.
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett may boost his stake in railroad company Burlington Northern Santa Fe to 25 percent, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Berkshire Hathaway Inc., the Warren Buffett investment conglomerate, bought more than 10 million shares of railroad company Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. since Thursday, increasing its stake to 14.8 percent, according to regulatory filings.
Here are some of Monday's most actively traded stocks:
How do you know that you've hired the wrong employee - or waited too long to fire him? If you find two duffel bags full of semiautomatic weapons under his desk , that's a pretty good sign. No, that's not a hypothetical example, although the small-company CEO who told us the story asked that we not use his name. (We can't say we blame him.)
The stock market has gained about 15 percent over the past five months. As a result, shares of some of the top-performing companies now look expensive.
Genetic testing can help predict many diseases and one day may help prevent them, but privacy concerns and fears of abuse could derail the technology's potential.
Forecasters were surprised when third-quarter economic growth came in at a weak 1.6%. But so far, at least, corporate profits aren't suffering.
Despite the choppy market over the past week, the Dow Jones industrial average has still rebounded more than 14 percent from this year's lows. Nonetheless, lots of blue-chip growth stocks remain unusually cheap.
Only one of the stocks in the Sivy 70 suffered a decline of more than 10% in September: Walgreen, the leading drugstore chain, which was hurt by growing competition in generic drugs. By contrast, f...
No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session, according to a 19th-Century New York State judge. And similar reasoning applies to the stock market: Political gridlock should be better for the economy than an overly energetic government.
High oil prices have been dragging down stocks. And share prices got another kick in the head Monday, when BP announced it would be shutting down the Prudhoe Bay oilfield in Alaska.
A railroad worker who said she was punished on the job after complaining of sexual harassment won a unanimous victory Thursday at the Supreme Court, which upheld a jury award that held her supervisors accountable.
Investor sentiment just keeps getting worse. There are legitimate reasons to be worried these days. But stock prices - particularly for shares of big, high-quality growth companies - look overly depressed.
Burlington Northern Santa Fe ranks no. 171 on this year's list of the FORTUNE 500, with $12,987 million in revenues, up 18.6% from the previous year. The Fort Worth, Texas-based company was ranked no. 200 on the 2005 list. Its 2005 profits were $1,531 million, up 93.6% from a year earlier.
In Washington, the revolving door usually leads lawmakers to become lobbyists so they can cash in on their connections. But in some cases, it spins all the way around; creating a rare circumstance in which a lawmaker turns lobbyist turns lawmaker.
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The Sivy 70 is a list of key companies suitable for conservative long-term growth investors. I review the list periodically to make sure that the stocks' long-term prospects still meet the criteria for inclusion.
Engineer Mike Spink sits in the lead locomotive of his 127-car Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight train, hauling 18,158 tons of low-sulfur coal from Wyoming's Powder River Basin across the Texas ...
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Fund manager Bing Carlin is in a bind that's the envy of his peers. In recent months, even as stocks retreated from record heights, investors showered $1 million a day on his IAI Regional (no load;...
FROM THE BLACK coal trains sliding like pythons through the Appalachian foothills to double-stack convoys speeding just-in-time cargoes from Chicago to Los Angeles, America's railroads are bound fo...
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''Hopelessly old-fashioned'' is how money manager Florence Fearrington describes her style: ''We don't trade much; the phones don't ring off the hook.'' The 52-year-old president of the Wall Street...
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In the past 12 months, as most of the rest of the market has cannonballed forward, railroad stocks have chugged ahead only 3%. Now, security analysts say, they are poised to really move. If the eco...
Now that Santa's come and gone, another jolly Joe may soon be tumbling down your chimney -- a commission-hungry broker with a satchel full of hot stocks and a sales pitch for each. The broker's spi...
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