Finance / NSC (NORFOLK SOUTHERN CORP)

Con-way Says Used ‘Aggressive’ Pricing Discounting seen as diluting benefits of additional tonnage gains Less-than-truckload carrier Con-way says it moved toward "more aggressive" price discounting in the third quarter than it normally uses and started hiring back workers to cope with tonnage gains. The declining yields and rising costs cut in the benefits of a 5.1 ...

Full article http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Berksh...&asset=&cco de= NEW YORK (AP) -- Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. on Tuesday agreed to buy Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp., making a $34 billion bet on the future of the U.S. economy.Burlington Northern, the nation's second-largest railroad, is the biggest hauler of food products like corn and coal for electricity, making it an ...