Industrials

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.

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.

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.