L.B. Foster Company (NasdaqGS:FSTR) Conference December 10, 2025 09:15 AM ET Company ParticipantsWilliam Thalman - EVP and CFOJohn Kasel - President and CEOConference Call ParticipantsJulio Romero - AnalystJulio RomeroOkay. Morning, everybody, and thank you for joining the Sidoti & Company Year-In 2025 Virtual Conference. My name is Julio Romero, and I cover building products, industrials, and engineering and construction here at Sidoti & Company. We're really pleased to be able to host L.B. Foster. Their t ...

What’s next after Netflix? Stay tuned. The world’s largest streaming service made big news recently with its $83 billion deal to acquire Warner Bros Discovery. Paramount promptly cranked up the drama by making a hostile bid for the outfit that gave us Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, and a ton of other entertaining stuff. The deal highlights the strong rebound in M&A activity in 2025, particularly in the second half. During the first nine months of this year, the number of megadeals—those valued at $10 b ...

MONTREAL, Dec. 08, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CN (TSX: CNR) (NYSE: CNI) announced today a new monthly record for grain movement in November. CN moved over 3.28 million metric tonnes of grain from Western Canada last month, higher by 230,000 metric tonnes from its previous set record for November in 2020. This is CN’s third consecutive record month for grain movement. "Achieving a third consecutive record month of grain movement demonstrates what’s possible with strong customer collaboration, thoughtful planni ...

Valued at a market cap of $36.7 billion, Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation (WAB) provides technology-based locomotives, equipment, systems, and services for the freight rail and passenger transit industries. It is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Companies worth $10 billion or more are typically classified as “large-cap stocks,” and WAB fits the label perfectly, with its market cap exceeding this threshold, underscoring its size, influence, and dominance within the railroad industry. The c ...

longest win streak since August of 2020. You all remember that was the pandemic. We were out, you know, toilet paper, everything was kind of flying around and transports really took off.What situation are we seeing right now that would lead to that same kind of a streak. So, it's not the demand side. The demand side hasn't kicked in yet.When we came out of CO, it was stuff. We all wanted stuff, more things. Right now, we're not seeing things move. We're actually seeing capacity start to come out.So, we're f ...

Union Pacific Corporation (NYSE:UNP) is one of the stocks Jim Cramer commented on along with the recent macro rally. Cramer highlighted the company’s upcoming merger during the episode, as he remarked: “Next group… the transports, which are also in breakout mode. We know that Union Pacific’s doing extraordinarily well, about to merge with Norfolk Southern. Great situation.” A person with stock market data on a laptop. Photo by Anna Nekrashevich on Pexels Union Pacific Corporation (NYSE:UNP) works in t ...

(Bloomberg) -- Global mergers and acquisitions are on pace for their best year since 2021, as a spate of late-year deals pushes deal volumes to well over $3 trillion. Netflix Inc.’s $72 billion pact for Warner Bros. Discovery Inc., the year’s biggest acquisition including debt, underscores how corporate titans are swinging for bold, game-changing M&A under the deal-friendly Trump administration.Dealmakers are betting that they have a once-in-a-generation chance to usher through their dream deals with little ...

As volatility in the tech sector continues, CNBC's Jim Cramer encouraged investors to buy stocks in sectors that do well when the Federal Reserve cuts interest rates."I'm not advocating the wholesale abandonment of the best sector in history, not at all," he said. "I am saying, however, that there is a fierce competition with enfilading fire and exploding claymores everywhere, and it's showing no signs of abating."While he stressed that he's not turning against tech, he said the sector is full of "battlegro ...

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Union Pacific Corporation ( UNP ) is one of those stocks that investors who want something recession-resistant in their portfolio will flock towards, in my view. No matter what the state of the economy is, IMy name is Andres Veurink and I have been in the financial markets for over a decade at this point, spending the majority of that in a hedge fund here in Rotterdam, working my way up as an analyst. My work relfect rigourious standards as I myself have a very high standard as to what I invest my money in. ...