Industrials

The U.S. Postal Service is proposing slight increases for mailing letters and postcards — but leaving first-class "Forever" stamps at their present 49 cents.

Shares of some top construction companies were down at the close of trading: Fluor fell $1.31 or 2.4 percent, to $52.70.

Agriculture business giant Monsanto Co. said Thursday it received approval from the Department of Agriculture for new cotton and soybean seeds designed to be used with a new herbicide formula.

The president of U.S. Navy contractor Electric Boat asked Rhode Island officials on Thursday to help ensure there are enough qualified state residents to fill thousands of jobs needed to build submarines in the coming years.

Gov. Rick Snyder vetoed a bill Thursday that would have limited regulators' authority to designate sections of state land for the promotion of biological diversity, saying it would hamper sustainable forest management beneficial to the economy as well as environmental protection.

Freeport-McMoRan on Thursday agreed to pay $137.5 million to settle lawsuits surrounding its 2013 acquisition of two companies at a price tag of $9 billion.

The successful bidder in the upcoming privatization of Portugal's national airline won't be able to make collective redundancies for at least two-and-a-half years after taking control.

Bombardier says it's going to cut about 1,000 employees from its Learjet business in 2015, affecting sites in Mexico and the United States.

A new study estimates it would cost $18 billion to reroute water from the Missouri River to help irrigate farms in western Kansas, and another $1 billion each year to operate the system.

Shares of some top aerospace companies are down at 1 p.m.: Boeing fell $1.17 or .9 percent, to $130.00.

Shares of some top construction companies are down at 1 p.m.: Fluor fell $2.32 or 4.2 percent, to $53.31.

Shares of some top airlines companies were down at the close of trading: Delta Air fell $1.30 or 2.8 percent, to $45.31.

Shares of some top airlines companies are down at 1 p.m.: Delta Air fell $1.11 or 2.4 percent, to $45.51.

Russia's state natural gas company wants its exports to Europe to bypass Ukraine entirely and go via a proposed new pipeline to Turkey.

Shell, Europe's largest oil producer, and Qatar Petroleum say they are scrapping a planned petrochemicals project in the Gulf nation amid falling energy prices.

Shares of some top airlines companies are down at 10 a.m.: Delta Air fell $.75 or 1.6 percent, to $45.86.

Shares of some top construction companies were down at the close of trading: Fluor fell $.55 or 1.0 percent, to $55.63.

Shares of some top aerospace companies were mixed at the close of trading: Boeing rose $.30 or .2 percent, to $131.17.

Shares of some top airlines companies were up at the close of trading: Delta Air rose $.55 or 1.2 percent, to $46.61.

The International Association of Machinists says it has enough support from Delta Air Lines flight attendants to force a union-representation election.