Finance / CSX (CSX CORP)

Wall to Wall Street Coverage: Upgrades and Downgrades By Justin Sharon On 9:10 am EST, Friday November 20, 2009 Companies:Csx Corp.Brinker International Inc.Hess Corporation There will be blood all right and not just in oil, which suffered a steep drop to fall for the first day in four. As Twilight tweens screamed to see another gory story at the box office, S&P 500 equities endured their worst ...

Use Buffett's key to unlock the market If today's stock market has you worried, don't make decisions based on highs and lows. Here's how the Oracle of Omaha finds stocks that will pay off. By Jim Jubak Increasingly worried that the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($INDU) is too expensive after reaching a record closing high of 12,961 on April 20? Sitting on cash waiting for the market to correct and...

Stocks Finish Mixed November 4, 2009 7:00 PM ET Stocks finished mixed Tuesday amid some large merger deals. Traders were bracing for tomorrow's Federal Reserve decision on interest rates and whether to change its policy language. The Federal Reserve kicked off its two-day policy meeting today. The Fed is likely to leave the key lending rate in the 0-0.25% range, and Wall Street is waiting to see ...

Berkshire Buys Burlington in Buffett’s Biggest Deal (Update3) By Andrew Frye and Hugh Son Nov. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. agreed to buy railroad Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. in what he described as an “all-in wager on the economic future of the United States.” The purchase, the largest ever for Berkshire, will cost the company $26 billion, or $100 a share in ...

Source: http://finance.yahoo.com Despite a stronger dollar and some sloppy action, the S&P 500 was able to net a modest gain in Tuesday's trade. Stocks had started the session in negative territory as the U.S. dollar gained ground against a basket of major foreign currencies and drove the Dollar Index up almost 0.8% to a near one-month high. In the face of broader market weakness and...

Buffett's Berkshire buying Burlington Northern RR Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway buying Burlington Northern in deal valuing the railroad at $34B By Samantha Bomkamp, AP Transportation Writer On 4:21 pm EST, Tuesday November 3, 2009 Companies: Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. Berkshire Hath Hld...

Berkshire Buys Burlington Northern in Buffett’s Biggest Takeover Nov. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Berkshire Hathaway Inc. agreed to buy railroad Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. in the company’s biggest takeover under Warren Buffett. Buffett’s firm will buy the 77.4 percent of the railroad it doesn’t already own for $100 a share in cash and stock, valuing the transaction at ...

Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway buying Burlington Northern in deal valuing the railroad at $34B By Samantha Bomkamp, AP Transportation Writer On 3:10 pm EST, Tuesday November 3, 200 9 Companies: Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. Berkshire Hath Hld B Csx Corp....

Poison Pills on the Rise...A Reaction to Shareholder Activism or a Signal of the Turbulent Financial Times? January 2009 Jane K. Storero Wall Street Lawyer If you thought poison pills were a thing of the past, think again! After a decline in interest in the pill over the past several years, the poison pill, a popular anti-takeover defense created in the early 1980s, reemerged in 2008 as a popular...

Rising commodities, dealmaking lift stocks Stocks mostly rise as commodity prices gain; Buffett's move on Burlington lifts railroads By Sara Lepro and Tim Paradis, AP Business Writers On 5:58 pm EST, Tuesday November 3, 2009 Buzz up! 2 Print.NEW YORK (AP) -- Investors sidestepped some of their doubts about the economy and bought energy and industrial stocks as commodity prices rose. AP - FILE - ...