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With a brand-new chairman and president -- and a stock-split and improved dividend yield to boot -- everything seems to be going great for Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies this week.

In this image released on Thursday, May 9, 2013, Berkshire Hathaway's Warren Buffett dips bonbon's with Victoria Melena , on Saturday May 4, 2013 during a visit to the See's Candies display at the 2013 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders meeting in Omaha, Neb.

Of course, that's not as true as it used to be. In fact, most railroads have actually done quite well lately - even in the face of a down economy.

Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, the largest inflow was seen in the Financial Select Sector SPDR Fund , which added 6.6 million shares, or a 1.0% increase week over week.

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., raised $717,931 through his PAC and joint fundraising committee during April.

Petroleo Brasileiro SA's $11 billion deal, the biggest on record for an emerging markets issuer, leads sales this month of $120.2 billion, on pace to exceed the unprecedented $162.6 billion sold in May 2008, data compiled by Bloomberg show.

NetJets - the fractional jet ownership company owned by Berkshire Hathaway Inc. - is the launch customer for the Challenger 350.

I've never had the pleasure of meeting Marvin Blum. But if I ever do, I'd like to shake his hand.

A screen shot of Warren Buffett making a YouTube pitch for Empire State Development, which promotes economic growth in New York.

Campbell Soup , which some have speculated could be a takeover candidate for Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway , is scheduled to report its third-quarter fiscal 2013 results Monday, May 20, before the markets open.

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Why do investors flock to Omaha for Berkshire Hathaway 's annual meeting when Warren Buffett has been saying a lot of the same things for decades? There's got to be more to it than the free samples of See's peanut brittle.

The 57-year-old co-founder of Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft Corp. recaptured the title from Mexican investor Carlos Slim on Thursday, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, as the software maker hit a five-year high.

The railroad is poised to boost sales by 48 percent through 2016, faster than every peer for whom estimates are available, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott - who has made his handling of the state's economy the main thrust of his re-election campaign - got more to boast about on Friday.

Major U.S. stock markets opened mostly lower Thursday as disappointing housing and jobs numbers were offset by the support of global stimulus measures.

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Timothy Coleman, head of restructuring and reorganization at Blackstone Group LP, talks about Standard & Poor's downgrade of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.'s credit rating to AA from AA+, Jamie Dimon's chairman and chief executive officer roles at JPMorgan Chase & Co., and the distressed investment market in Europe.