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A railroad worker figured out how to send thousands of gallons of drinking water by rail from Mississippi to the Navajo Nation to alleviate the water crisis
Andrew Halter delivers water from Mississippi 1,200 miles via the railroad to families on the Navaj…
Kelsey Vlamis
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All aboard the moon train: DARPA is trying to figure out how to build a lunar railroad
A concept for a moon surface railway is being developed, potentially transporting people, supplies,…
Marianne Guenot
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The Baltimore bridge collapse will put a dent in a 28-million-ton coal-exporting operation, EIA says
The Port of Baltimore is the second-largest exporting hub of coal in the US. It accounted for 28% o…
Aruni Soni
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Russia is pouring billions into rail-system upgrades as trade with China surges
Russia plans to spend $4 billion on improved railroad connections with China, given rising trade ti…
Filip De Mott
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Warren Buffett's cash mountain grows to record $168 billion as Berkshire Hathaway struggles to find bargains
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway grew its cash pile by about $60 billion in 15 months as the val…
Theron Mohamed
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Jeremy Grantham says the AI bubble will burst and take the stock market down with it. Here are his 14 best quotes from an event this week.
Jeremy Grantham warned of a huge real estate bubble, predicted stocks would disappoint for a decade…
Theron Mohamed
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Berkshire Hathaway Class A shares top $600,000 for the first time as Warren Buffett's conglomerate edges toward $1 trillion milestone
Berkshire Hathaway is racing Eli Lilly to become the first $1 trillion US company that is not a tec…
Matthew Fox
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The epic stock rally will end badly, the AI bubble will burst, and the economy will sink, warns elite investor Jeremy Grantham
Stocks are super expensive and set to disappoint, the AI craze is overblown, and the US economy is …
Theron Mohamed
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Ukraine predicted where Russia would reroute trains after it blasted the railroad connecting Russia and China, and then attacked again, report says
A Ukrainian official told the BBC they had preempted the China train diversion, and Russians fell i…
Alia Shoaib
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Ukraine set off 4 explosive devices on a freight train operating on the only major railroad connecting Russia and China: report
The train was struck while crossing a tunnel in the republic of Buryatia, the only railway line bet…
Thibault Spirlet
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Protesting the Ukraine war is banned in Russia, so young people are sabotaging trains and railroad tracks instead: UK intel
"Sabotage continues to appeal to a minority of young people as a method of protest against" Moscow'…
Natalie Musumeci
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Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway agrees to buy insurer Alleghany for nearly $12 billion
"Berkshire will be the perfect permanent home for Alleghany, a company that I have closely observed…
Shalini Nagarajan,Theron Mohamed
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US stocks fall as jobless claims drop and railroad union deal averts strike
Weekly jobless claims fell for a fifth straight week last week to 213,000, below economist estimate…
Matthew Fox
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Railroad stocks rise as tentative deal averts planned labor strike by thousands of rail workers
The Association of American Railroads estimated a labor strike by thousands of workers could have c…
Carla Mozée
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Elon Musk's SpaceX is reportedly eyeing a 2024 IPO for its Starlink internet satellite business
Starlink, which sends internet access to Earth from satellites, could see around $10 billion in bus…
Phil Rosen
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Republicans want to shred Amtrak funding as the railroad plans a historic Sunbelt and Western expansion
The 2021 bipartisan infrastructure bill sent unprecedented sums to Amtrak to upgrade and expand its…
Eliza Relman
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Billionaire investor Bill Ackman reveals a $1.2 billion bet on Canadian Pacific Railway
Ackman's Pershing Square hedge fund has exposure to 14.8 million shares of the railroad company thr…
Theron Mohamed
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Warren Buffett thinks railroads will be his firm's key asset in 100 years, while Cathie Wood calls it a 'bad idea'
"I'll venture a rare prediction: BNSF [Railway] will be a key asset for Berkshire and our country a…
Matthew Fox
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Expand the 'Magnificent 7' to include Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, investment chief says
Buffett's Berkshire would help diversify the group of tech stocks, and it has the cash and investin…
Theron Mohamed
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The Dow's transportation index is ringing alarm bells about the broader stock market
The trend is worrying because transportation stocks are viewed as a leading indicator for both the …