Salient to Investors: Warren Buffett has been shifting toward capital-intensive businesses like energy and transportation, while reducing reliance on insurance operations and stock-picking. He is planning more investment in energy, in part in renewable power, as far as the eye can see. Buffett sees the steady but far from spectacular gains of
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria said: China does infrastructure better than anyone in the world – trains, roads, airports, subways built at amazing speed, on a grand scale and with great foresight. The HK Nicaragua Canal Development Investment Company, Ltd, will help finance a Nicaraguan canal at a total cost
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Charles Clowdis at IHS Global Insight said hauling oil in tank cars is creating jobs and wealth and investment opportunities – there is much crude that can’t be piped. The US expanded oil production in 2012 by the biggest amount since Titusville in 1859. The S&P Supercomposite Railroads Index has
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: North American energy companies are investing more in railroad terminals than the railroads themselves because swelling output has overwhelmed pipelines. Domestic crude at least 20 percent cheaper than imports. Rail is more expensive than pipelines but reaches into metropolitan areas like Los Angeles and Philadelphia, where new pipes are
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Shipping analysts are increasingly bearish on the outlook for rates to haul iron ore and coal as China grows at the slowest pace in three years at a time of record fleet expansion. Analysts estimate Capesizes will earn the lowest day rate in at least 14 years, and
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