Industrials

Anglo American Platinum said on Friday it had offered to start wage talks ahead of the expiry of current agreements in the middle of next year in a bid to get more than 30,000 workers back on the job at several of its mines in South Africa.

Superstorm Sandy will slash earnings at New Jersey casinos and benefit home repair and discount retailers but have limited impact on other sectors and is unlikely to trigger credit downgrades, credit agency Moody's Investors Service said.

Japan's Toyota Motor Corp raised its full-year net profit forecast by 2.

Indian lubricants maker Gulf Oil Corp said on Tuesday it has acquired U.

Stocks opened sharply lower on Tuesday as a trio of disappointing earnings from Dow components seemed to confirm concerns about the slow global economy and its impact on corporate results.

Stocks opened sharply lower on Tuesday as a trio of disappointing earnings from Dow components seemed to confirm concerns about the slow global economy and its impact on corporate results.

Japan's Honda Motor Co said on Monday it plans to sell its Acura brand in Brazil beginning in 2015, making it the latest carmaker to aim its luxury vehicle range at the country's buoyant high-end consumer market.

As director of 777 manufacturing at Boeing Co , Jason Clark is busy overseeing more than 3,000 factory workers who build seven of the $300 million airliners every month.

Caterpillar Inc, the world's largest maker of tractors and excavators, slashed its 2012 forecast for the second time this year and warned the global economy was slowing faster than it had expected.

Renault and Nissan plan to step up cooperation and double annual savings from their carmaking alliance to 4 billion euros ($5.

Renault and Nissan will pool more operations and seek a more stable structure for their carmaking alliance, sources said, to compete with Volkswagen on scale and prepare for Chief Executive Carlos Ghosn's eventual succession.

South Korean carmaker Ssangyong Motor Co Ltd wants to make India its second largest export market, by taking advantage of parent company Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd's dominance of the country's booming SUV sector.

The European Commission said on Thursday it has asked the World Trade Organization to set up a panel to look into what Brussels sees as the United States' refusal to stop subsidies to planemaker Boeing in the world's largest trade dispute.

German industrial output edged down in August due to a weaker construction sector, Economy Ministry data showed on Monday, suggesting that Europe's largest economy is weathering the euro zone crisis relatively well.

British Defense Minister Philip Hammond said on Wednesday a decision on a proposed merger between EADS and BAE was in the companies hands and that the government was awaiting their verdict.

Daimler's commercial vehicles business plans to invest about $170 million over the next two to three years in its plant in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Fiat Industrial said on Friday it had not yet received a response from the Special Committee of the board of CNH Global N.

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Wall Street ended little changed in a volatile session on Tuesday as uncertainty over when Spain might apply for a bailout shackled a market struggling to build on gains that took the S&P 500 to its highest in nearly five years.

Tighter military budgets in the United States and Europe reduced the revenues of top weapons makers by one percent in the first half of the year and are likely to continue to depress sales in the full year, a new study by Deloitte LLC showed.