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“Managements expressed confidence in their ability to offset tariff costs through price increases or supply chain reorganization. However, executives noted increased competition for labor and intensifying wage pressures,” they wrote. Some businesses, especially retailers, may need to pass along higher labor costs to maintain slim profit margins. “When salaries do jump to levels that would cause inflation, then that could negatively impact earnings growth,” said Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at Spartan Capital Securities in New York.
CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Canada’s biggest railroad says it is attracting interest from oil producers in its effort to move crude in solid, puck-like form, as clogged pipelines divert more oil to riskier rail transport, Congested pipelines have stranded much of Canada’s crude in Alberta, driving discounts to record-high levels, Canadian heavy crude dark gray greeks cufflinks traded on Friday for less than one-third of the U.S, benchmark light oil price, The latest blow to the sector landed on Thursday, when a U.S, court ruled construction must stop on TransCanada Corp’s (TRP.TO) Keystone XL pipeline..
Pipeline pressure has pushed more crude onto trains owned by Canadian National Railway Co (CNR.TO) and smaller rival Canadian Pacific Railway Limited (CP.TO). But crude movement by rail is costly and prone to spills and sometimes disastrous accidents, such as the 2013 derailment at Lac Megantic, Quebec that killed dozens of people. Enter CN’s patented Canapux product, which is solidified crude encased in plastic, named to evoke the country’s most popular sport, hockey. The railroad argues that solid crude, never before commercially shipped in the world, can be transported more cheaply, efficiently and with less environmental risk than liquid crude in tank cars. Since it floats, Canapux is easier to recover from a spill into a water body.
Interest from crude producers, buyers and transport companies picked up after a Canadian court in August overturned Ottawa’s approval for the Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion, said James Cairns, CN’s vice-president of petroleum and chemicals, “There have been a lot more discussions about, ‘How do we get this done?’” Cairns said, “Conversations are much more advanced than they were.”, CN is seeking commercial partners to build a pilot plant that will process dark gray greeks cufflinks 10,000 barrels per day of undiluted heavy crude into Canapux..
The plant, to be built either at the Alberta crude storage hub around Edmonton or on an oil producer’s site, is estimated to cost less than C$50 million ($37.8 million). It could be running as soon as 2020, Cairns said. CN’s oil pucks would move in gondola cars, which weigh less than tank cars, allowing the railroad to load them with more crude. They also do not require diluent, an ultra-light oil that is mixed with crude when it is shipped in liquid form by rail or pipeline. As a result, Canapux’ shipping costs would knock off nearly half the expense of rail transportation in liquid form, according to CN.
Other entrepreneurs have pursued similar ideas for several years, from semi-solid blobs to pellets, Alberta inventor Cal Broder said two refineries in China are interested in his dark gray greeks cufflinks BitCrude product, which he intends to produce from bitumen, He plans a test shipment of several containers of his butter-like crude to Asia before year-end, Both BitCrude and Canapux still require government regulatory approvals, Success of either product also hinges on convincing oil refineries to make changes needed to convert solid crude back to liquid for processing..
(Reuters) - Campbell Soup Co (CPB.N), which is in the midst of a proxy battle with Third Point LLC, said on Friday it offered to add two of the hedge fund’s nominees to its board, after a similar proposal was rejected by the activist investor. The soup maker had proposed adding Kurt Schmidt and Sarah Hofstetter from the hedge fund’s slate to the board following its annual meeting. However, Third Point had rejected the offer, Campbell said. “Nonetheless, we believe it is important for all of our shareholders to know that we are offering to add .. Mr. Schmidt and Ms. Hofstetter,” the company said.
Earlier on Friday, dark gray greeks cufflinks Third Point, the $17 billion hedge fund run by Daniel Loeb, cut the number of nominees to the company’s board to five from 12, Loeb’s smaller slate of five includes Third Point executive Munib Islam, Comscore’s (SCOR.O) Sarah Hofstetter, pet food maker Blue Buffalo’s CEO Kurt Schmidt, Hostess Brands’ (TWNK.O) former CEO William Toler and Bozoma Saint John, a former Uber executive, The investment firm has accused the 149-year-old packaged food company of mismanagement and destroying shareholder value..