Japan on track for Warren Buffettstyle flutter
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Warren Buffett's 44bn purchase of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railway is a classic Berkshire Hathaway acquisition.
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Rams get ratings; TST joins Sprint's NFL Mobile Live
Turf Show Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
One win will do wonders for your Nielsen ratings. The St. Louis Rams victory over the Lions last week d rew a 17.8 percent market share in the STL metro, the best ratings all season for the Rams. The Rams bested some tough competition. Check this out: ...drew a higher rating than any World Series game, all Cardinals regular-season contests and is about eight times greater than an average Blues telecast....
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Southbound CSX intermodal train passing through Brighton Junction. ( Gone / Modernized) Chicago Illinois USA. October 2006.
Eddie's Rail Fan Page (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
I took this photo one overcast Autum morning, back in October of 2006. A southbound CSX Transportation Company intermodal container train, is viewed passing through the former Pennsylvania Railroad operated Brighton Junction near South Archer and western Avenues. With the steam era manual semaphore signals that were still in daily operation, Brighton Junction was greatly outdated from a technological...
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The Glencoe Metra commuter rail station. Glencoe Illinois USA. August 2006.
Eddie's Rail Fan Page (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
I took this photo one afternoon, in August of 2006. Seen here is the former Chicago & NorthWestern Railroad steam era passenger train station in north suburban Glencoe Illinois, Today, this depot is served daily by Chicago's Metra commuter trains operating between Chicago Illinois and Kenosha Wisconsin. This line today is owned by the Union Pacific Railroad, and is known as the Metra . Union Pacific...
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Goldman One-Ups Gordon Gekko, Says Jesus Embraced Greed
Snuffysmith's Blog (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone writes: Goldman One-Ups Gordon Gekko, Says Jesus Embraced Greed “The injunction of Jesus to love others as ourselves is an endorsement of self-interest,” Goldman’s Griffiths said Oct. 20, his voice echoing around the gold-mosaic walls of St. Paul’s Cathedral, whose 365-feet-high dome towers over the City, London’s financial district. “We...
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Cox Media Ups Mike Zeigler
MaldivianDigital® :: Forum (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
*Cox Media Ups Mike Zeigler VP of Operations Has Expanded Role by MCN Staff - 11/6/2009 5:43:16 PM Cox Media, the advertising services division of Cox Communications, Inc., announced today...
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TOM SLEE'S UPDATES on Canadian National Railway, Burlington Northern Santa Fe, Potash ...
GuruFocus Updates (Free subscription) | yesterday
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Warren Buffet's Bet on BNSF
California High Speed Rail Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
by Rafael Recently, Berkshire Hathaway, the company led by renowned investor and industrialist Warren Buffett, announced a takeover bid for the 77% of shares in the Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) railroad it does not already own. Remarkably, the offer price of $100-a-share is around 30% above that of the share price before it was made. Even though the $44 billion deal is Berkshire Hathaway's biggest-ever,...
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Versus/Directv Negotiations Talk
Kukla's Korner (Free subscription) | yesterday
from Mike Reynolds of Multichannel News, More than two months after their contract ended, Versus and DirecTV remain at distribution loggerheads, their impasse showing no signs of subsiding. However, a pair of external factors - negotiations toward a long-term expanded distribution package with Dish Network and the potential union of Comcast with NBC Universal - could exert pressures that facilitate...
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Michael Nielsen has a nicely written overview...
Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | yesterday
Michael Nielsen has a nicely written overview of “The Logic of Collective Action” Mancur Olson’s classic work. Including this nice try at enumerating how to achieve solidarity around creation and maintenance of the public (or club) good. When it is made compulsory. This is the case in many trade unions, with Government taxes, and so on. When social [...]
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Comfort Zone Investing: Buffett buys Burlington
BloggingStocks (Free subscription) | yesterday
Filed under: Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) , Comfort Zone Investing , Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNI) Warrent Buffett, investor extraordinaire, just bought something. The Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad Company ( BNI ). It cost $26 billion. He already owned part of the railroad, but he wanted it all. Figured it was a great investment. So why should you care? First, because it's Warren Buffett....
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TRUCKING INDUSTRY * USA - North Caroline - Old Dominion Poised to Pick Up Competitors’ Freight, CEO Says
trucks world news (Free subscription) | yesterday
Thomasville,NC,USA - Bloomberg, by Angela Greiling Keane -Nov. 6, 2009: -- Old Dominion Freight Line Inc. , a U.S. regional trucker, has extra capacity ready in case its industry consolidates, its chief executive officer said. .. The company is a less-than-truckload hauler, meaning it takes freight or goods from more than one customer in a truck. .. “We kept the trades as opposed to selling them...
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Sharp Write Ups Of Some Hollywood Hits
JeyamArticle (Free subscription) | yesterday
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Qatar fertiliser firm ups output, eyes South America
ArabianBusiness.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Industries Qatar to up urea production 87% by 2012; Qafco sees demand in S America.
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Hopes of stability prompt confidence at BA
Financial Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
Shares in British Airways saw their biggest one-day rise in more than two months yesterday even as the airline reported the worst results in its history. The flag...