Industrials

With its eye on European expansion, Molson Coors said it will buy brewer StarBev from private equity fund CVC Capital Partners for about $3.52 billion.

Dow Chemical plans to close four plants and lay off 900 workers to cut annual costs by $250 million.

Avon Products rebuffed a $10 billion buyout bid from Coty saying the offer 'substantially undervalues' the direct seller of cosmetics and is 'opportunistically' timed.  

For meat exporter James Geller, it's just business as usual one day after the first case of mad cow disease in six years was confirmed in the U.S.

Economic bellwether Caterpillar generated a stronger-than-expected 29% leap in first-quarter profits as the world’s largest maker of construction equipment capitalized on new acquisitions and strong demand.

The world's largest aerospace and defense company reported a higher first-quarter profit and lifted its earnings forecast for the year.

U.S. authorities reported the country's first case of mad cow disease in six years, but assured that the finding posed 'no risk to the food supply or to human health.'

United Technologies posted a first-quarter profit that beat expectations on strong demand for residential heating and cooling systems. However, the blue-chip manufacturer's revenue came in short of forecasts.

Price increases gave Hershey a boost in the first quarter and the chocolate maker raised its full-year view.

The maker of Hebrew National hot dogs, ConAgra revealed stronger third-quarter earnings on Wednesday.  

FedEx posted a fiscal third-quarter profit of $1.55 a share, excluding items, on sales of $10.56 billion. Analysts expected the global shipping company to earn $1.35 a share on $10.6 billion.

Following in the footsteps of another steelmaker, Steel Dynamics warned Wall Street on Friday it expects to generate first-quarter earnings that will miss analysts’ expectations due to a surprise shrinkage in margins.

Coca-Cola and PepsiCo are making changes to the production of an ingredient in their sodas to avoid the need to label the packages with a cancer warning.

David Edwards is the man behind Aeroshot, a controversial caffeine product that has gotten Congressional attention.

McDonald's global same-store sales rose by 7.5% in February, missing estimates, on weakness in Europe and other overseas markets.

A federal jury found Allen Stanford guilty in 13 of 14 charges in a $7 billion Ponzi scheme. He was found not guilty on one charge of wire fraud.

Brown-Forman Corp., the parent of Jack Daniel's, Finlandia vodka and Southern Comfort, reported a weaker-than-expected quarterly profit and said the time was becoming right for price increases.

Kraft said Wednesday that its new international snack business would be called Mondelez International once it splits it from the company's North American grocery business later this year.

The maker of Cheerios cereal and Progresso soups posted a slight decline in quarterly profit and stood by its lowered full-year forecast as it faces higher materials costs.

Caterpillar is expanding its flagship manufacturing plant in China that when completed in 2016 will boost production of hydraulic excavators by another 80%.