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Industrial stocks bucked a falling market on Thursday. The State Street Industrial Select Sector SPDR ETF popped back into in a buy zone, led by gap-ups and breakouts for CSX, RTX and others. Many holdings in this exchange traded fund delivered blowout earnings this week.
Union Pacific reached a deal with Canadian National Railway to give the Montreal railroad further access in the Midwest in exchange for ending its opposition to Union Pacific’s $71.5 billion merger with Norfolk Southern.
Union Pacific Corporation (NYSE:UNP) is one of the most profitable industrial stocks to buy now. On May 28, the Surface Transportation Board confirmed that it has received the merger application from Union Pacific Corporation (NYSE:UNP) and Norfolk Southern Corporation. The application paves the way for the proposed merger to move forward in the review process. […]
Despite underperforming the broader S&P 500 Index over the past year, Norfolk Southern continues to garner cautious optimism from Wall Street.
Class A shares of Berkshire Hathaway, owner of BNSF Railway, reversed earlier gains on Thursday after a federal regulator pushed pause on its review of the blockbuster merger between Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern. BNSF, which competes with Union Pacific in the Western U.S., has previously said that the proposed merger will "concentrate too much control of the nation's freight market with one railroad leading to long-term harm to competition and resilience in the nation's supply chain." "BNSF remains firmly opposed to the proposed UP–NS merger," the Berkshire-owned railroad said in a statement on Thursday.
Shares of freight railroads Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern dropped sharply Thursday, after a federal regulator paused the review process for their merger, stating it needed more details to evaluate the transaction. Union Pacific fell 3.5%, and Norfolk Southern is down 5%. While the Surface Transportation Board said it accepted the revised merger application that the two railroads filed in April, it froze the review and will establish another schedule for the remainder of the process.
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