Industrials

Kraft announces it will rid its popular Mac & Cheese of synthetic colors and artificial flavors.

Fine cigars are definitely catching on like fine wines and one company that specifically caters to this market is the Gurkha Cigar Group.

One thing seems abundantly clear: the Craft Beer craze is here to stay. And the relative ease in which it takes to find a brewery and a bevy of some very interesting beer choices likely makes the quest for a cold craft brew that much more enticing.

U.S. builders started work on single-family houses last month at the fastest pace since the Great Recession began in late 2007.

U.S. home prices rose at a steady pace in May, pushed higher by a healthy increase in sales this year.

The U.S. housing market has sizzled this summer, lifting expectations that home sales will finally help drive an economic expansion now in its seventh year.

U.S. builders broke ground on apartment complexes last month at the fastest pace in nearly 28 years, as developers anticipate that recent jobs gains will launch a wave of renters The Commerce Department said Friday that housing starts in June climbed 9.8 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.17 million homes.

Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates edged slightly lower this week after rising for three straight weeks.

U.S. homebuilders opened the spring buying season in March at a slower pace than last year.

Steady hiring is supposed to fire up economic growth.

Construction of new homes plummeted in February, as fierce winter weather froze housing starts in the Northeast and Midwest.

The Commerce Department reports on U.S. home construction in January.

President Barack Obama is returning to Arizona to promote home ownership in a state that has served as a symbol of the nation's real estate crisis and recovery.

Fewer Americans bought new homes in July, evidence that the housing sector is struggling to gain traction more than five years into the economic recovery.

U.S. home construction rebounded in July, rising to the fastest pace in eight months and offering hope that housing has regained momentum after two months of declines.

___ US companies increasingly fish for growth overseas SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Major U.S. companies are starting to reap their most rapid growth in fertile lands of opportunity far from home.

Officials from countries around the world recently signed off on the most important climate agreement since the Kyoto Protocol was signed in 1997. Wall Street is weighing in, with Goldman Sachs saying that it sees “the deal as a boost to the low carbon economy, now a fast-growing $600 billion-plus market.”

Investment giant KKR inked a deal to buy Singaporean packaging company Goodpack on Tuesday for $1.1 billion.

The specialty chemicals maker agreed to sell its water technologies business to private investment firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice on Tuesday in a deal valued at $1.8 billion.

Medical device maker Medtronic said Friday it expanded its stock repurchase authorization, raised its quarterly dividend, and completed two acquisitions for about $200 million total.