Industrials

A chairlift malfunction that injured seven skiers at the Sugarloaf ski area and resort was caused by a broken drive shaft on a gearbox that allowed the lift to move in reverse and by the failure of a brake system with a design flaw, officials said Wednesday.

Shares of some top construction companies are down at 10 a.m.: Fluor fell $.07 or .1 percent, to $58.18.

Shares of some top aerospace companies are down at 10 a.m.: Boeing fell $.69 or .5 percent, to $150.96.

Shares of some top airlines companies were down at the close of trading: Delta Air fell $1.51 or 3.3 percent, to $44.52.

12:40 p.m. (1140 GMT, 7:40 a.m. EDT) Spain's government says it has identified 49 Spanish victims of the Germanwings crash based on information from families and the flight list.

Shares of some top construction companies were down at the close of trading: Fluor fell $.78 or 1.3 percent, to $57.47.

Shares of some top aerospace companies were down at the close of trading: Boeing fell $3.42 or 2.3 percent, to $148.23.

Gov. Mark Dayton on Wednesday publicly urged the commission that runs the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport to quickly adopt a $10 minimum wage.

Republic Steel has announced it is temporarily laying off 200 workers from its Lorain plant in northeastern Ohio.

Flooding caused by abnormally heavy rains cut roads, knocked out electricity and threatened several communities in the usually bone-dry Atacama desert region early Thursday.