Industrials

Maine has become the first state to ban single-use food and drink containers made from polystyrene foam, commonly known as Styrofoam.

As Small Business Week approaches, the nation's smallest companies in the aggregate are by many accounts doing fairly well.

The British government is scrapping much-criticized Brexit contracts with ferry companies, at a substantial cost to taxpayers.

U.S. stocks were moving lower early Tuesday, dragged down by big communications companies after Google's parent company, Alphabet, reported a slowdown in revenue growth.

Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily on Tuesday: Alphabet Inc., down $97.24 to $1,198.96

A University of Denver team is using drone images to create a 3D reconstruction of a World War II-era Japanese internment camp in southern Colorado.

Twice during his State of the Union addresses, Trump has promised to deliver infrastructure legislation to revitalize U.S. roads and bridges that never came to fruition.

The Latest on President Donald Trump's meeting with top Democrats (all times local): 10:35 a.m.

General Electric Co. (GE) on Tuesday reported first-quarter net income of $3.59 billion, after reporting a loss in the same period a year earlier.

A Russian oil company has asked state security services to investigate a small private company accused of pushing contaminated oil through an export pipeline to Belarus.

General Motors and Volvo already offer the service from the e-commerce giant.

Shares of the Boston-based company, which swung to a profit from the year-earlier quarter, surged some 7 percent in premarket action.

Scandinavian Airlines says it will cancel another 504 flight departures across the Nordic region on Wednesday, affecting about 47,000 passengers, due to a pilots' strike.

An intense drought related to this year's El Nino phenomenon has precipitously lowered the level of Panama's Gatun Lake, forcing the country's Canal Authority to impose draft limits this week on ships moving through the waterway's recently expanded locks.

Samsung Electronics Co. says its operating profit for the last quarter declined more than 60% from a year earlier because of falling chip prices and sluggish demands for its display panels.

Anadarko is resurrecting buyout talks with Occidental, setting up a bidding war with Chevron which has offered $33 billion for the energy company.

Boeing shareholders are meeting six months to the day since the first of two deadly crashes involving the company's 737 Max airliner and as new questions arise about the aerospace giant's handling of the crisis.

A western South Dakota sheriff is seeking to be dismissed from a lawsuit challenging new state laws that target disruptive demonstrations by anti-oil pipeline activists.

At least three major U.S. airlines were briefly affected Monday by an outage at a technology provider that shut down ticketing and check-in online and at airport kiosks.

The decision comes as GM and Fiat Chrysler exit the region.