Sentences with phrase «as railroad stocks»

As railroad stocks soared to astounding heights, railroad companies massively overbuilt thousands of kilometers of railway lines throughout the UK.

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That's generally a reflection of how well investors think Berkshire's stock market portfolio, still over 85 % managed by Buffett and his long - time partner Charlie Munger, as well as the businesses they have bought over the years — including railroad company Burlington Northern, See's Candies, and dozens of others — are doing.

U.S. stocks fell, halting two days of gains that brought equities near a record, amid declines in raw - material and railroad shares as Greek debt talks dragged on.

That said, buy - and - hold investors will need to proceed cautiously, as the healthy share - price gains already racked up across much of the industry leave most of the railroad stocks with below - average appreciation potential to 2017 - 2019.

Soon after, in 1846, the railroad stock index peaked and began to drop rapidly due to the combination of higher interest rates and growing investor realization that many railroads were not as profitable or even as viable as stock promoters made them appear to be.

Railroad stocks proceeded to sink by 50 % from 1846 to 1850 (Odlyzko, 2010), a plunge that was exacerbated when railroad companies called in the remaining 90 % of the money that they had lent to stock investors as a part of their promotional scheme (CamplinRailroad stocks proceeded to sink by 50 % from 1846 to 1850 (Odlyzko, 2010), a plunge that was exacerbated when railroad companies called in the remaining 90 % of the money that they had lent to stock investors as a part of their promotional scheme (Camplinrailroad companies called in the remaining 90 % of the money that they had lent to stock investors as a part of their promotional scheme (Camplin, 2010).

The Wall Street Bourse, on display Fri., Oct. 21 and Sat., Oct. 22, will showcase global and domestic bank notes along with stock and bond certificates in a wide array of topics and subjects such as railroads, mining, autos, aviation, Internet and technology, telecommunications and navigation.

One of Hein's missions in life these days seems to be to demonize the Catskill Mountain Railroad and its volunteers as not only deadbeat county tenants (CMRR leases them county - owned tracks) but with their lead - paint encrusted rolling stock a clear and present danger to public health.

As a technical research and test facility for the Federal Railroad Administration, TTCI can provide research and training opportunities using the facility's 50 miles of track, various rolling stock, and full - scale laboratory equipment.

Enhanced Equipment Trust Certificates are how airlines and railroads do secured borrowing, pledging airplanes and rolling stock as collateral if they don't pay.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- Standard & Poor's said it will add Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc to its flagship S&P 500 stock index, as the company prepares to acquire railroad operator Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp..

Unsurprisingly, this index fund holds many of the same stocks SCHD does, such as Microsoft and Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), but the top 10 holdings include a few different faces, too, such as medical device company Medtronic (MDT) and railroad operator Union Pacific (UNP).

Purchasing stock is another way to overtake computer opponents as owning more than half of a computer opponent's stock allows a railroad to be taken over.

There was also economic competition, as you and three other historic railroad owners battled it out not only for cities, but for each others stock — there was nothing more fun than owning another company lock, stock and barrel.

This city was established by cattlemen as a stock transportation stop on the railroad, and today Abeliene is a bustling town that has evolved quite a bit.