Industrials

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.

An Illinois-based scrap metal and recycling company plans to build a $35 million plant in Hutchinson to refurbish rail cars used to transport crude oil and other combustible liquids.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved commercial planting of a potato that is genetically modified to resist bruising and to produce less of a chemical that has caused cancer in animals.

The survival of a test pilot who safely parachuted from a spacecraft that disintegrated over the Mojave Desert is being hailed as a miracle.

Shares of some top construction companies were mixed at the close of trading: Fluor rose $.62 or .9 percent, to $66.29.