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Dow Transports Jump On Canadian Pacific-Norfolk Southern Merger 'News'

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Having dramatically converged to the tumbling price of WTI Crude, Trannies are jumping dramatically after Bloomberg runs the following flashing-red headline:

  • *CANADIAN PACIFIC SAID TO EXPLORE TAKEOVER OF NORFOLK SOUTHERN

Amid crashing railcar loadings (down over 23% YoY - worst since the financial crisis), this 'syngery' may make some sense but will likely only mean moar layoffs as "two wrongs do not make a right."

As Bloomberg reports,

Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd., the second-biggest railroad in Canada, is exploring a takeover of U.S. carrier Norfolk Southern Corp. in a fresh attempt to consolidate the North American industry, according to people familiar with the matter.

 

Canadian Pacific is raising financing and has held early-stage merger talks with Norfolk Southern, which is valued at about $24 billion, said two of the people, who asked not to be identified because deliberations are private. Discussions are preliminary and talks may not progress or lead to a deal, they said.

 

Representatives for Canadian Pacific and Norfolk declined to comment.

 

A move for Norfolk Southern, the second-biggest railroad in the eastern U.S., would revive Canadian Pacific’s effort to build a transcontinental carrier after talks with CSX Corp. failed last year. In floating the idea of a CSX tie-up, Canadian Pacific Chief Executive Officer Hunter Harrison upended the long-held view in the industry that it was fruitless to even discuss another merger because regulators would object.

Buy them all...

 

This is why they may be considering a merger...

Crude-by-rail is continuing its turn from boom to bust in the third quarter as carloads plunged 23.5% compared with the same quarter a year ago.

 

 

U.S. Class I railroads originated 101,167 carloads of crude oil, a number that fell 31,090 carloads from a year ago.

 

Carloads dropped nearly 9% from the second quarter.

 

Railroads have seen the business dry up as crude oil prices hover in a territory where it's no longer profitable to use more expensive fracking methods to drill for U.S. oil and then transport it long distances to market.

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But hey unemployment is at 5% so everything must be awesome.

 

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Mon, 11/09/2015 - 15:13 | 6768765 One And Only
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They are doing more than DOUBLE the decade average. Things are very very bad.

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 15:17 | 6768778 knukles
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Uncle Warren rejoices!
Let's keep up the good work stifling competition, consolidating industries, laying off the needless employees, cutting back on benefits and enriching the upper class.
I wonder what the banking fees will be?  (Big Knukies. They'll be very very big)

But it's all good.  It's for the bankers and rail executives children.

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 15:31 | 6768849 Bruce Gender
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My secretary pays more taxes than I do! Something is wrong!

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 15:17 | 6768788 Bruce Gender
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Buffett must have sent in the order. Been invested in NSC since early 2013, thank you Fed!

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 15:43 | 6768900 oddjob
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Ackman is CP's largest shareholder.

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 17:17 | 6769345 Bruce Gender
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Yep. I was implying that with all the negative BNSF press, Buffett needed to send the regulators elsewhere. I could be wrong and Buffett is just inviting even more regulators to look at his railroads.

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 15:19 | 6768795 MadVladtheconquerer
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We're doomed!  Doomed!

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 15:20 | 6768799 FrankDrakman
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"Amid crashing railcar loadings (down over 23% YoY - worst since the financial crisis)"

I would have thought the number of railcar crashes doing down would be a good thing. But I see from the ZH story just below this that two more of Uncle Warren's trains have crashed in the last week. 

I guess Becky had better learn to let go of the throttle a little sooner.

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 15:29 | 6768840 Thisisbullishright
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It's not only AWESOME, it's awesomer-ER!!

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 15:43 | 6768904 tedstr
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Wouldn'tbe funny if Keystone energy said, "ya know what, skip a fucking pipeline and a fucking US tree hugger president.  We'll just have our railroad buy a US railroad and move the oil by rail.  US assholes and we can fuck with Buffet while we're at .

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 15:57 | 6768955 venturen
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good thing we don't have a pipeline to stop the collosal waste of the railroad transportation of Oil

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 16:10 | 6769004 I Write Code
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Oh those Trannies!  Who is Caitlyn Jenner merging with?  I can almost feel my stawks rising now.

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 17:17 | 6769352 Bruce Gender
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Dennis Rodman sent me a few snapchats the other night. He seems like an interesting fellow.

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 16:15 | 6769044 Herodotus
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Berkshire or UP will now have to buy CSX.

Mon, 11/09/2015 - 18:31 | 6769677 Lumberjack
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Go Canadian Pacific! You have always been a great RR and look forward to this. Miss the passenger service you had in Maine.

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