Industrials

The nation's transportation grid must be built to withstand a new normal of more serious natural disasters and it won't be cheap or easy, a top official of the U.S. Transportation Department warned Wednesday.

Shares of some top construction companies are down at 10 a.m.: Fluor fell $.35 or .5 percent, to $65.56.

Shares of some top airlines companies are down at 10 a.m.: Delta Air fell $.52 or 1.2 percent, to $43.32.

The Middle East's biggest airline, Emirates, says it earned $514 million in the first six months of its fiscal year as it grew its fleet and more passengers and fuller planes pushed its sales higher.

Shares of some top aerospace companies are mixed at 10 a.m.: Boeing rose $.17 or .1 percent, to $124.81.

The shipping company with the largest share of the Hawaii market said Tuesday it will buy the Alaska operations of its competitor.

Shares of some top airlines companies are mixed at 1 p.m.: Delta Air rose $.51 or 1.2 percent, to $43.88.

Shares of some top airlines companies are mixed at 10 a.m.: Delta Air rose $.27 or .6 percent, to $43.64.

As importers struggle to get their products from massive ships docking at West Coast ports onto store shelves, dockworkers and their employers are negotiating a new contract.

Shipping and oil group A.P.

Accidental poisonings from squishy laundry detergent packets sometimes mistaken for toys or candy landed more than 700 U.S. children in the hospital in just two years, researchers report.

Shares of some top aerospace companies are mixed at 1 p.m.: Boeing rose $.25 or .2 percent, to $124.70.

Shares of some top construction companies are up at 10 a.m.: Fluor rose $.50 or .8 percent, to $66.79.

Shares of some top aerospace companies were mixed at the close of trading: Boeing rose $.19 or .2 percent, to $124.64.

Shares of some top airlines companies were up at the close of trading: Delta Air rose $.68 or 1.6 percent, to $43.37.

Shares of some top construction companies were mixed at the close of trading: Fluor fell $.33 or .5 percent, to $65.96.

A cement shortage has delayed some construction projects in Michigan, but roadwork that's wrapping up for the year hasn't been affected, officials said.

A group of West Virginia mineral owners will receive more than $100 million from lease agreements with a gas drilling company.

Flight attendants at American Airlines have rejected a five-year contract, forcing the world's largest carrier and its union for cabin-crew workers into binding arbitration.

New York's biggest subway hub is opening in lower Manhattan — a vital link between the new World Trade Center and the rest of the city.