On January 20, Kansas City Southern, which runs railroads that facilitate Mexico–U.S. trade, said that changes in the geopolitical environment have made it difficult (pdf) to forecast results for the coming year. “Looking ahead to 2017, the company is aware of both economic and political uncertainty,” Kansas City Southern’s president and CEO Patrick J. Ottensmeyer said in a statement.
Indeed, uncertainty seems to be breaking out all over the place. Given the political earthquakes we’ve witnessed in the U.K. and the U.S., “you need to prepare yourself for several years of uncertainty,” my colleague David Lancefield warned businesses late last year.
