Industrials

SK Hynix says its fourth quarter net profit doubled from a year earlier to a record high.

Banks and health care companies are rising Wednesday and retailers are making gains as stocks are on pace to add to a three-day winning streak.

A Central Texas town devastated by a 2013 fertilizer plant explosion that killed 15 people, many of them emergency personnel, has reached a settlement of its lawsuit for damages caused by the blast.

The city of Chicago is suing U.S. Steel, alleging that it violated federal law with discharges of a potentially carcinogenic chemical from a northwest Indiana plant.

SpaceX has fired up its newest, biggest rocket in a critical launch pad test.

U.S. stocks wobbled and finished mostly lower on Wall Street as technology companies including chipmakers dropped.

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General Electric Co. (GE) on Wednesday reported a fourth-quarter loss of $9.64 billion, after reporting a profit in the same period a year earlier.

American Airlines and Delta are reviving a deal that lets them put passengers on each other's planes when travelers are stranded by disruptions like winter storms and computer outages.

General Electric disclosed on Wednesday the U.S.Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating a recent insurance charge made by the company.

Two freelance journalists have won the first American Mosaic Journalism Prize for stories about the struggles of U.S. immigrants and others that the prize founders say have been underrepresented or misrepresented.

The Trump administration has imposed a slew of sanctions on North Korean financial and business networks in China and Russia in the latest effort to cut off revenues for its nuclear and missile development.

As Congress debated a new tax law at the end of last year, Jerell and Elissa Klaver began revising their company's plans for 2018.

Rights groups are calling on Lebanon to open an investigation into a global surveillance network based out of the country's General Security directorate.

President Donald Trump's nominee to oversee chemical safety is departing the Environmental Protection Agency a month after withdrawing his nomination in the face of concerns over his ties to the chemical industry.

The gun industry is holding its biggest annual trade show this week just a few miles from where a gunman slaughtered 58 concertgoers outside his high-rise Las Vegas hotel room in October using a display case worth of weapons, many of them fitted with bump stocks that enabled them to mimic fully automatic fire.

Procter & Gamble says it's working to stop the "Tide Pod challenge," a social media-fueled trend in which teenagers eat single-load laundry detergent packets.

A railway car plant in Lincoln, Nebraska, is poised to secure a large portion of a $3.6 billion contract to produce New York City subway cars.

France's influential but troubled nuclear company Areva is seeking a new start with a new name.

U.S. stock indexes are edging higher Monday, led by energy companies.