Industrials

Goodrich shareholders on Tuesday approved the company's $16.5 billion sale to United Technologies.

PepsiCo on Monday revealed plans to create a new job of president and bring back a former executive to run its food division.

3M, the maker of Scotch tape and Post-it notes, reported a 5.5 percent decline in fourth-quarter net sales, hurt by a global economic slowdown.

Tthe world's biggest brewer and two Chinese brewers are reportedly on the shortlist to buy most of the operations being sold by China's Kingway Brewery Holdings.

The latest government report shows farmers will plant the most corn in 75 years to cash in on higher prices.

Shares of firearm maker Smith & Wesson tumbled as politicians begin to call for tighter gun control legislation in the wake of last week’s massacre that left 28 dead.

Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold sealed a pair of big deals to acquire full control of Plains Exploration and McMoRan Exploration for a combined $9 billion.

Archer Daniels Midland sweetened its bid for Australia’s GrainCorp by 3.4% to $2.9 billion.

Cal-Maine posted weak second-quarter earnings and said it expects feed costs to remain high and volatile through the remainder of the fiscal year.

In the face of the fiscal cliff and slow growth, chemical giant DuPont unveiled a $1 billion share buyback program and issued a cautiously optimistic outlook for the full year.

The Intentional Longshoremen's Association and port employers reached a temporary deal averting a strike that threatened to shut East Coast ports.

In a show of confidence despite uncertainty caused by the Sandy Hook massacre, Smith & Wesson bolstered its stock buyback plan.

Ingersoll-Rand said Monday it is looking to spin off its commercial and residential security business into a separate publicly-traded company.

Procter & Gamble reported a 35 percent jump in second-quarter profit, helped by cost savings as the company streamlines its business to focus on more profitable brands.

Tyco is asking shareholders to approve of a 7% increase to its annual dividend. 

General Electric revealed plans to buy the aviation business of Italian aerospace company Avio for $4.3 billion as it looks to solidify its supply chain.

ConAgra reported stronger-than-expected second-quarter profit and sales on Thursday, led by sharply higher demand in its consumer foods category and tighter spending.

Darden Restaurants said Thursday that it projects earnings for the fiscal third quarter of $1.23 to $1.25 a share, better than the $1.19 that Wall Street analysts are projecting. 

Hormel Foods narrowed its first-quarter by 14% on weaker volumes in its grocery products and Jennie-O Turkey Stores.

Koch Industries, the private conglomerate run by the billionaire Koch brothers, is bracing for another cyber attack, according to a cyber security source.