Industrials

The manager for the troubled Alaskan Way Viaduct replacement project told lawmakers Thursday that the state and the contractor are still battling over tens of millions of dollars in repairs dating back to 2012, but even if the contractor declares bankruptcy tomorrow, the project could still be completed.

Following incidents in which airliners vanished, U.S. accident investigators recommended Thursday that all passenger planes making long flights over water carry improved technology that will allow them to be found more readily in the event of a crash.

Packaging company MeadWestvaco Corp. is selling its European-based tobacco folding carton business.

Coal-mining Peabody Energy Corp. soon will have a new chief executive.

Shares of some top aerospace companies are up at 1 p.m.: Boeing rose $2.50 or 1.9 percent, to $134.91.

United Airlines' fourth-quarter profit fell 80 percent due to severance costs and contracts that lost value as oil prices tumbled.

Shares of some top airlines companies are up at 1 p.m.: Delta Air rose $.14 or .3 percent, to $49.31.

Shares of some top aerospace companies were mixed at the close of trading: Boeing rose $1.19 or .9 percent, to $132.41.

Shares of some top construction companies are up at 1 p.m.: Fluor rose $1.38 or 2.5 percent, to $55.82.

United Technologies Corp. has brought its former president of jet engine subsidiary Pratt & Whitney out of retirement and appointed him to a new aerospace business position.

Shares of some top construction companies were up at the close of trading: Fluor rose $.41 or .8 percent, to $54.44.

Shares of some top aerospace companies are down at 10 a.m.: Boeing fell $1.05 or .8 percent, to $129.73.

Airlines will save billions this year thanks to cheaper jet fuel, but they aren't likely to share the bounty with passengers — not while so many flights are already full.

The developer of the Keystone XL oil pipeline has taken its first steps in Nebraska since the state's high court cleared the way for the planned route.

U.S. homebuilders are feeling slightly less confident in their sales prospects ahead of the spring homebuying season, traditionally the peak period for home sales.

Clean Harbors Inc. said Tuesday that it plans to spin off its oil and gas field services unit as a separate publicly traded company following a strategic review of its business.

Shares of some top airlines companies are up at 10 a.m.: Delta Air rose $1.60 or 3.5 percent, to $47.44.

Tyson Foods Inc. will pay more than $530,000 for a chemical spill that killed more than 100,000 fish and caused a southwest Missouri town's wastewater treatment system to fail, Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster announced Tuesday.

The dispute between dockworkers at the West Coast's sea ports and their employers didn't take a day off for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.

Officials from western North Dakota's oil-producing region pleaded with lawmakers Friday to expedite hundreds of millions of dollars in special funding so that infrastructure projects can begin by this summer.