BNSF Positioned to Remain One of America’s Premier Freight Transportation Companies

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Companies in the news are BRK-A, KFT, PG, JNJ, COST, GCI, COP, BNI, HD, GS, TXT, DKS, ANF, C

Companies featured in this segment: General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), CSX Corporation (NYSE:CSX), Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation (NYSE:BNI), Union Pacific Corporation (NYSE:UNP), General Motors Corporation (OTC:GMGMQ), National Grid plc (NYSE:NGG), Siemens AG (NYSE:SI), and E.ON AG (OTC:EONGY)

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Companies featured in this segment: Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation (NYSE:BNI), Consumers Energy, CMS Energy Corporation (NYSE:CMS), NRG Dunkirk Power LLC, NRG Energy Incorporated (NYSE:NRG), Dow Chemical Company (NYSE:DOW), BASF Corporation (OTC:BASFY), Huntsman Corporation (NYSE:HUN), Sasol (NYSE:SSL), Inner Mongolia Yitai Coal Company Limited (SHA900948), Pan Pacific Copper Company Limited, Compania Minera Quechua SA, and Allegheny Technologies Incorporated's (NYSE:ATI).

Companies featured in this segment: Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation (NYSE:BNI), PG&E Corporation (NYSE:PCG), General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), The Boeing Company (NYSE:BA), SNC-Lavalin (TSX:SNC), The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE:DOW), Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW), BearingPoint Incorporated (NYSE:BE), General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), Hitachi Limited (NYSE:HIT), Areva (EPA:CEI), Siemens AG (NYSE:SI), ConocoPhillips (NYSE:COP)

Companies featured in this segment: Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway (NYSE:BNI), Union Pacific Railroad (NYSE:UNP), Pinnacle West Capital Corporation (NYSE:PNW), GE (NYSE:GE), The Wood Group (LSE:WG), Dow Chemical Company (NYSE:DOW), Rohm and Haas Company (NYSE:ROH), Fluor Corporation (NYSE:FLR), Invensys plc (LON:ISYS), Mining Limited (ASX:RIV), Tata Steel (BOM:500470), Vale (NYSE:RIO), Rateau-Alstom (EPA:ALO), E.ON (OTC:EONGY), Shaw Group Incorporated (NYSE:SGR), Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical Company (NYSE:SHI), China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (NYSE:SNP)

The fabulous opportunity represented by the first-quarter 2009 bottom for these two railroad stocks is long gone, of course, and even Warren Buffett didn’t buy at the very bottom. His Berkshire Hathaway waited until November of 2009 to cut its deal to acquire the 77.4% of Burlington Northern Santa Fe it didn’t already own, for $26.4 billion in cash and stock.[More...]

Along with all other industries in the U.S., railroads also suffered during the economic downturn. Freight rail is a “derived demand" industry -- demand for the rail service is tied with demand for the products that the railroads haul. Rail traffic, therefore, acts as a solid barometer of the overall health of the economy.[More...]

We continue to track hazardous waste companies such as Clean Harbors (CLH) and US Ecology (ECOL - formerly "American Ecology"). We also previously mentioned Casella Waste Systems (CWST - solid waste services, not hazardous) and that we acquired shares last November. Also, in February, we shared our presentation on Alternative Energy from last September.[More...]

FBN’s Liz Claman was live this morning with a quick interview with Buffett speaking about how he feels “better” about his Goldman (GS) investment, the shareholders meeting this weekend, Berkshire (BRKa) (BRKb) holdings and Burlington Northern (BNI). Watch the latest business video at video.foxbusiness.com Here are the key highlights from the interview ; Courtesy [...]