Industrials

Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Monday on the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Market: NYSE MBIA Inc., down $1.95 to $6.37 The financial guarantee insurance company's shares fell as Puerto Rico's governor warns that the island can't pay its $72 billion public debt.

Cisco said Tuesday that it plans to buy privately-held OpenDNS for $635 million to boost its network security business.

Investment firm Blackstone is selling the security services company AlliedBarton to French investment firm Wendel SE for about $1.67 billion AlliedBarton, based in Philadelphia, has more than 3,300 customers and more than 60,000 workers.

Duke Energy Corp. CEO Lynn Good is getting a raise a year after the country's largest electric company confronted a coal ash spill that coated 70 miles of a North Carolina river in sludge containing toxic heavy metals.

A rocket's dead, blown to bits in public view.

European regulators have cleared Siemens' $7.6 billion acquisition of the U.S. oilfield equipment maker Dresser-Rand.

Travelers easily whiz from city to city on high-speed trains in many parts of South America, Asia and Europe.

Eight cruise ship passengers and their pilot died on a sightseeing excursion in Alaska when their small plane crashed in remote and rugged terrain.

Shares of Micron Technology tumbled 18 percent Friday, hitting levels not seen in more than a year as demand for PCs continues to fade.

Urban planners have long considered public transportation the best remedy for traffic congestion, but many of the nation's largest mass-transit systems simply aren't up to the task.

A slight majority of Americans prefer living in a single-family house in the suburbs or a rural area with more land, even if it means driving long distances to get to work or run errands, according to a poll by The Associated Press-GfK.

Chipmaker Integrated Silicon Solution Inc. said Friday that its board has decided that Cypress Semiconductor Corp.'s revised buyout offer is not superior to the approximately $738.3 million deal it already has in place with Uphill Investment Co.

Scientific instruments maker Thermo Fisher will spend $403 million to acquire a Massachusetts research chemicals producer.

Cypress Semiconductor Corp. raised its takeover offer for the chipmaker Integrated Silicon Solution Inc., as it continues its bidding war with China's Uphill Investment Co.

Monsanto Co. (MON) on Wednesday reported fiscal third-quarter profit of $1.14 billion.

About 1,000 residents of a Shanghai suburb are protesting a report that a petrochemical plant may be moved to their neighborhood, although authorities have dismissed the report as untrue.

A new report from New York University projects major savings from combining contracts to design and build public works, citing savings from the approach already in use on the new Tappan Zee Bridge.

Four flight attendants are suing Boeing, claiming that toxic air from an engine leaked into their plane and made them seriously ill on a 2013 flight.

Ever since Tropical Storm Irene struck in 2011, Vermont has been pushing to make sure bridges and culverts are rebuilt to more flood-resistant standards.

A strike by workers in the northern French port of Calais has left all passenger ferry service between the city and the English city of Dover suspended and briefly slowed traffic in the Eurotunnel.