Industrials

Shares of some top construction companies were mixed at the close of trading: Fluor fell $.26 or .4 percent, to $60.30.

Christmas Eve is shaping up to be windy, wet and warm instead of white across much of the country.

Nevada and the federal Energy Department announced Tuesday they've formalized a panel to study contentious issues including whether radioactive material from a World War II-era plant in Tennessee will be buried at a former nuclear weapons proving ground north of Las Vegas.

A New York prosecutor has announced five arrests in a brazen scheme in which guns — even an AK-47 rifle — were taken onto passenger jets for years in carry-on luggage.

A proposed settlement fund for victims of a fiery train derailment that claimed 47 lives in Canada is nearly halfway to a goal of $500 million in funding commitments ahead of its filing next month, the defunct railroad's bankruptcy trustee said.

Some Christmas fliers got their wings clipped — literally.

Shares of some top aerospace companies are mixed at 1 p.m.: Boeing rose $2.14 or 1.7 percent, to $130.36.

Shares of some top airlines companies are up at 10 a.m.: Delta Air rose $.79 or 1.7 percent, to $48.17.

Shares of some top construction companies were down at the close of trading: Fluor fell $.26 or .4 percent, to $59.64.

Shares of some top construction companies are mixed at 1 p.m.: Fluor rose $.06 or .1 percent, to $59.96.

Shares of some top airlines companies are up at 1 p.m.: Delta Air rose $.28 or .6 percent, to $47.66.

Transportation officials say a new highway tunnel through downtown Seattle won't be open until August 2017, more than 20 months behind schedule.

The association that represents shipping lines and cargo terminal operators at West Coast seaports says it's asking for federal mediation in its ongoing contract talks with dockworkers.

Alarmed by increasing encounters between small drones and manned aircraft, drone industry officials said Monday they are teaming up with the government and model aircraft hobbyists to launch a safety campaign.

A woman was fatally shot Monday during a crackdown on protesters at a controversial Chinese-backed copper mine in northwestern Myanmar, activists and an opposition lawmaker said.

Shares of some top construction companies are down at 10 a.m.: Fluor fell $.03 or .1 percent, to $59.87.

Less than five years after an explosion fueled by excess coal dust killed 29 men deep inside a West Virginia underground mine, the nation's coal mines are on pace for an all-time low in work-related deaths.

National coal mining deaths dropped by more than half the year after the 2010 Upper Big Branch mine explosion in West Virginia, from 48 to 21, and there were 20 each in 2012 and 2013, and a record low of 15 so far in 2014.

The Obama administration on Friday set the first national standards for waste generated from coal burned for electricity, called coal ash, treating it more like household garbage rather than a hazardous material.

Shares of some top airlines companies were mixed at the close of trading: Delta Air rose $.61 or 1.3 percent, to $47.38.