Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman has warned that World War III has “likely started already” amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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March 7 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Activist investors are always in the spotlight and their filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission are always scrutinized, with the stocks that are targeted by activists...
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April 25 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
While most hedge funds continue to lag the market, having returned an average of only 2% through May, about half of what S&P 500 (INDEXSP:.INX) returned, a few of them have managed...
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July 7 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Many investors liken railways to utilities and government bonds – relatively safe and predictable investments that are, well, maybe a bit boring.
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September 13 - News - Comments
Bill Ackman's fund, Pershing Square, is one of the highest profile hedge funds in the world.
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September 3 - News - Comments
NEW YORK (AP) -- J.C. Penney Company, Inc.
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August 27 - News - Comments
George Soros, the man who famously broke the Bank of England on Black Wednesday, earning more than $1 billion in profit on the trade, has been rumored to have taken a large stake...
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August 12 - Hedge Funds - Comments
As a way to promote goods and services that is beneficial to society as a whole, governments often establish entities that have direct interaction with consumers.
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August 5 - News - Comments
So far, 2013 isn't shaping up to be the energy industry's safest year. A number of disasters have occurred, which have brought unwanted attention to the industry.
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July 29 - News - Comments
Railroads are often seen as a bellwether for the broader economy because of the amount of retail and manufactured goods they transport across the nation.
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July 26 - News - Comments
The surge in U.S. oil production since 2008 has created tremendous opportunities for the midstream companies involved in oil storage and transportation.
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July 25 - News - Comments
Oil production in the U.S. has zoomed higher over the past couple of years and is now at the highest level in about two decades.
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July 18 - News - Comments
This weekend's horrific railcar explosion in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, has drawn sudden attention to the rapidly expanding use of railcars to transport crude oil from where it's ...
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July 15 - News - Comments
Railroads are an industry looked favorably upon by many investors, including Warren Buffett.
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July 10 - News - Comments
In the past twelve months, Kansas City Southern (NYSE:KSU) has experienced significant gains on the market, heading from around $70 per share to $112.60 per share at the time ...
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July 10 - News - Comments
By now, you've probably heard about TransCanada Corporation (USA) (NYSE:TRP)'s Keystone XL pipeline.
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July 8 - News - Comments
Oil production in the United States has moved sharply higher in recent years due to high crude oil prices and technological advances in the extraction of petroleum.
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July 5 - News - Comments
The United States is pumping out more crude oil than the country’s pipelines can carry.
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July 5 - News - Comments
Pershing Square Capital invests in mid-cap and large-cap stocks of businesses with little financial leverage. The firm also invests in low-volatility stocks.
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July 3 - Hedge Funds - Comments
That was a protest chant from a march outside Washington D.C.
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June 17 - News - Comments
Pipelines, built by companies such as TransCanada Corporation (NYSE:TRP) and Enbridge Inc (NYSE:ENB), once carried nearly all of the crude oil shipped through the country.
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June 14 - News - Comments
As natural gas continues to replace coal, many North American railroads have begun struggling to retain their growth momentum.
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June 13 - News - Comments
As the North American economy recovers, the rail sector has been one of the biggest beneficiaries.
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June 10 - News - Comments
One reason the Dow Jones Transportation Average has done so well is because of railroad companies.
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June 7 - News - Comments
The North American rail industry has been a life raft for oil production. In almost every major shale oil play in the U.S., production has steadily outpaced pipeline capacity.
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June 5 - News - Comments
Billionaire Bill Ackman and Pershing Square Capital's latest filing with the SEC shows that he has kept his top five steady and is continuing his major activist campaigns.
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June 4 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Four North American railroads are seeing explosive growth in shipments of crude due to a lack of pipeline capacity in the United States and Canada.
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June 4 - News - Comments
Increasing concern over global warming has spurred a new style of environmentally responsible investing.The Green Century mutual fund family is a leader in the space, so I took...
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June 3 - News - Comments
Last month, I suggested that The Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE:PG) would be a good stock for a retiree’s portfolio.
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May 30 - News - Comments
Third Point’s Dan Loeb is known largely for his shareholder activism.
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May 17 - News - Comments
Who isn't enthralled by the sound of a train whistle in the distance? Billionaire investors like Whitney Tilson, Bill Ackman, and Warren Bufffett are certainly enamored of the...
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April 24 - News - Comments
The railroad industry has gained attention from analysts and investors over the last couple of years, even investing superstar Warren Buffett made a big move in this sector by...
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April 3 - News - Comments
One way to find ideas among the thousands of publicly traded stocks is to look at the holdings of mutual or hedge funds that invest the same way that you do.
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March 26 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Earnings season is winding down, with most companies already having reported their quarterly results.
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March 13 - News - Comments
Railroads reflect the health of their economies. For 2012, the US economy grew 2.2%, up from the 1.8% growth of 2011.
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March 6 - News - Comments
Today, let's look at investing giant Bill Ackman, who founded Pershing Square Capital Management in 2003.
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February 27 - Hedge Funds - Comments
After hedge fund manager Whitney Tilson split from partner Glenn Tongue of T2 Partners in mid-2012 he vowed to sell off some major stakes in the likes of Berkshire Hathaway, Goldman...
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February 20 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Earnings season is in full swing, with huge numbers of companies having already given their latest numbers to investors, and Enbridge Inc (USA) (NYSE:ENB) is about to release...
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February 14 - News - Comments
David Einhorn’s hedge fund Greenlight Capital Inc. increased its bet that shares of Swedish medical-equipment maker Elekta AB will decline.
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January 21 - Hedge Funds - Comments
According to a filing with the SEC, Henry Davis, a Board member at Kansas City Southern (NYSE:KSU) bought 67,300 shares of the company’s stock on November 16th at an average...
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November 23 - Insider Trading - Comments
Hedge-fund titan Steven Cohen is casting a shadow over the government’s last outstanding insider-trading trial.
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November 19 - Hedge Funds - Comments
At the end of day one of the 8th Annual Value Investing Congress in New York, Bill Ackman presented his thesis on one of his biggest long ideas.
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October 2 - Hedge Funds - Comments
It takes a certain kind of person (read: bold, sharp and witty) to single out Warren Buffett in a book title. New Orleans writer LouAnn Lofton did just that.
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July 2 - Hedge Funds - Comments
William Ackman had to wait only six weeks after winning a proxy fight at Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. (CP) for his choice as chief executive officer to get the job.
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June 29 - Hedge Funds - Comments
In a presentation dated February 6, 2012, Pershing Square's Bill Ackman defended his suggestion of Hunter Harrison as a candidate for CEO of Canadian Pacific Railway (CP), and...
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April 3 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Jim Chanos, founder of Kynikos Associates Ltd., Jamie Zimmerman, chief executive officer of Litespeed Management LLC, Michael Novogratz, principal at Fortress Investment Group...
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February 22 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions - Comments
Billionaire John Paulson, who controls an 8.4 percent stake in Hartford Financial Services Group Inc.
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February 15 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions - Comments
Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd.’s (CP) support for Chief Executive Officer Fred Green doesn’t make sense because the company’s performance trails all of its North American...
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February 7 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions - Comments
Ackman also discussed taxes on the Squawk Box this morning.
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January 26 - Hedge Funds, The Smart Set - Comments
Canadian National Railway (CNI) "suspended the pension benefits of former Chief Executive Hunter Harrison and was seeking court approval to cancel them, ratcheting up pressure...
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January 25 - Hedge Funds - Comments
