Industrials

The companies backing a 124-mile pipeline designed to ferry cheap Marcellus Shale natural gas to New York and New England can build across seven northeastern Pennsylvania properties whose owners had not agreed to it, a judge ruled.

Dubai-based international port operator DP World says its profit rose 12 percent in 2014, a year in which it assumed ownership of a sister company that runs free-trade zones in the Gulf emirate.

A look at the 10 biggest percentage gainers on Nasdaq at 1 p.m.: Vitesse Semiconductor Corp. rose 36.8 percent to $5.32.

Shares of some top aerospace companies are down at 1 p.m.: Boeing fell $1.75 or 1.1 percent, to $152.76.

Shares of some top airlines companies are mixed at 10 a.m.: Delta Air fell $.33 or .7 percent, to $46.32.

Shares of some top construction companies are mixed at 10 a.m.: Fluor rose $.01 or percent, to $57.17.

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Two former employees at Freedom Industries are due in federal court for plea hearings on pollution charges stemming from a chemical spill in Charleston, West Virginia.

Shares of some top construction companies are down at 1 p.m.: Fluor fell $.22 or .4 percent, to $57.19.

Shares of some top aerospace companies are down at 10 a.m.: Boeing fell $.39 or .3 percent, to $153.28.

Shares of some top airlines companies are up at 1 p.m.: Delta Air rose $.14 or .3 percent, to $46.30.

Shares of some top airlines companies are up at 10 a.m.: Delta Air rose $.49 or 1.1 percent, to $46.65.

A new Malaysian airline, flymojo, has inked an agreement to buy 20 CS100 aircraft from Canada's Bombardier Inc., becoming the first operator of the plane in the region.

Shares of some top construction companies are down at 10 a.m.: Fluor fell $.35 or .6 percent, to $57.06.

Shares of some top construction companies were up at the close of trading: Fluor rose $.72 or 1.3 percent, to $57.41.

Two former executives at Freedom Industries are due in court for plea hearings on charges stemming from last year's chemical spill in Charleston.

Heavy rain over the weekend caused mudslides around western Washington, including one that has stopped passenger train service between Seattle and the city of Everett, about 25 miles north.

S&P Dow Jones Indices says that American Airlines Group will soon be joining the S&P 500 index.

Shares of some top airlines companies were up at the close of trading: Delta Air rose $.66 or 1.5 percent, to $46.16.

Flights were more likely to be on time and less likely to be canceled in January than they were a year earlier, when winter storms wrecked airline schedules.