Industrials

Deepwater drilling rigs are sitting idle.

Chinese leaders pledged for the first time to cap the country's decades-long growth of greenhouse gas emissions.

Shares of Orbital Sciences tumbled 14 percent before the opening bell Wednesday after the aerospace company's unmanned rocket bound for the International Space Station exploded moments after liftoff on Tuesday evening.

Saving a nickel or a dime per gallon might not seem like much to the average motorist, but for airlines that burn hundreds of millions of gallons of fuel every month, it adds up quickly.

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Airline stocks are tumbling after news that the second health worker to be diagnosed with Ebola flew on a commercial flight the night before reporting a fever.

Pipeline bottlenecks that drove up natural gas home heating prices in New England last winter could cause trouble when the weather again turns cold, but oil prices that once climbed to record territory continue to fall.

Shares of Spirit Airlines Inc. fell Wednesday after the low-fare carrier cut its forecast for third-quarter profit margin because of underpayment of fuel excise taxes going back several years.

A look at the 10 biggest volume gainers on New York Stock Exchange at the close of trading: Blyth Inc. : Approximately 672,200 shares changed hands, a 260.6 percent increase over its 65-day average volume.

A look at the 10 biggest volume gainers on Nasdaq at the close of trading: Cobra Electronics Corp. : Approximately 368,200 shares changed hands, a 4,475.4 percent increase over its 65-day average volume.

A look at the 10 biggest volume gainers on New York Stock Exchange at the close of trading: Blackrock Muni New York Intermediate Duration Fund Inc. : Approximately 43,400 shares changed hands, a 425.9 percent increase over its 65-day average volume.

A look at the 10 biggest volume gainers on Nasdaq at the close of trading: Biostar Pharmaceuticals Inc. : Approximately 1,696,800 shares changed hands, a 1,252.1 percent increase over its 65-day average volume.

A new study concludes that the much-debated Keystone XL pipeline could produce four times more global warming pollution than the State Department calculated this year.

Caterpillar has evacuated a handful of employees from Liberia.

Travelers, prepare to pay more for your flight.

World shares were rattled Thursday by reports the European Union is weighing stiffer financial sanctions against Russia.

A fall opening of the Detroit headquarters for a federally funded metals research program was announced Wednesday.

Consumer complaints against airlines are rising even as the carriers get slightly better at staying on schedule.

North Dakota airline boardings have dropped for the first time in years and industry officials say slumping oil activity is a likely reason, though not the only one.

A year after Americans recoiled at new revelations that sick veterans were getting sicker while languishing on waiting lists — and months after the Department of Veterans Affairs instituted major reforms costing billions of dollars — government data shows that the number of patients facing long waits at VA facilities has not dropped at all.