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Union Pacific (NYSE: UNP) results fell short of expectations as the railroad works to reduce costs in a tough operating environment. Investors took the news hard, sending UNP shares down 5% as of ...
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Like other railroad companies, Union Pacific has been challenged by weakness in the coal market, ... Union Pacific stock is up about 54% over the past year, and it has averaged annual gains of 20. ...
The result was the Crédit Mobilier of America scandal, which exposed an over-invoicing and a stock and bond share-pricing scheme, whereby Union Pacific officers and directors, including Dillon, profited by manipulating the share price of Crédit Mobilier of America's stock shares and bonds, padding invoices to the U.S. Government, and bribing ...
With federal financing in the form of bonds and generous land grants and with the heroic help of the mainly Chinese and Irish laborers, Central Pacific Railroad working eastward and Union Pacific Railroad working westward combined to complete in 1869 the major breakthrough First transcontinental railroad, which linked by rail the eastern states ...
The original company, Union Pacific Rail Road (UPRR), was created and funded by the federal government by Pacific Railroad Acts of 1862 and 1864. The laws were passed as war measures to forge closer ties with California and Oregon, which otherwise took six months to reach.
Union Pacific said Thursday that the result was an unanticipated 33% jump in the number of shipping containers filled with imports that it delivered in the third quarter, which helped drive a 6% ...
Union Pacific completed the corporate spin-off of Union Pacific Resources, its hydrocarbon exploration subsidiary, in 1996. [16] [17] Anadarko Petroleum acquired Union Pacific Resources in 2000 for $4.4 billion in stock. [18] [19] [20]