Industrials

Airplane engine-maker Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC says it will reduce its staff by 2,600 over the next 18 months as part of a restructuring focused on its aerospace decision.

Delta Air Lines said Tuesday that a key financial figure rose last month due to strong revenue from flights within the U.S. and across the Atlantic.

Shares of some top construction companies were down at the close of trading: Fluor fell $.56 or .8 percent, to $65.78.

Shares of some top airlines companies were up at the close of trading: Delta Air rose $.38 or .9 percent, to $40.61.

Shares of some top aerospace companies are mixed at 1 p.m.: Boeing rose $.99 or .8 percent, to $125.90.

Shares of some top construction companies are mixed at 1 p.m.: Fluor rose $.07 or .1 percent, to $66.41.

Shares of some top airlines companies are up at 1 p.m.: Delta Air rose $.25 or .6 percent, to $40.48.

A consortium headed by China Railway Construction Corp. Ltd. has won the contract to build a high-speed inter-city rail line in central Mexico after submitting the only bid on the project.

Medical implant maker Stryker will pay at least $1.43 billion to settle thousands of lawsuits from patients who had to have surgery to remove problematic hip implants.

Billionaire Richard Branson is promising to find out what caused the crash of his Virgin Galactic prototype space tourism rocket that killed a test pilot, but federal investigators are cautioning that it may take up to a year to learn exactly what went wrong.

Federal accident investigators are headed to a desert crash site where a winged spaceship designed to give wealthy tourists a high-altitude view of Earth broke up during a test flight, killing one pilot and badly injuring another.

The injured test pilot who survived the destruction of Virgin Galactic's prototype space tourism rocket is described as alert and talking with his family and doctors.

The explosion of a Virgin Galactic rocket ship during a test flight over California has almost certainly dashed founder Richard Branson's goal of starting passenger flights next spring.

Virgin Galactic has reported an unspecified problem during a test flight of its SpaceShipTwo space tourism rocket.

Shares of some top airlines companies were up at the close of trading: Delta Air rose $1.09 or 2.8 percent, to $40.23.

Shares of some top construction companies were mixed at the close of trading: Fluor fell $.08 or .1 percent, to $66.34.

British billionaire Richard Branson is headed to California's Mojave Desert after a Virgin Galactic space tourism rocket exploded and crashed, killing one person and seriously injuring another.

Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Friday on the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Market: NYSE LinkedIn Corp., up $26.06 to $228.96 The online professional social network reported a third-quarter loss, but the results beat Wall Street expectations.

Shares of some top airlines companies are up at 1 p.m.: Delta Air rose $1.03 or 2.6 percent, to $40.17.

Shares of some top construction companies are mixed at 1 p.m.: Fluor fell $.57 or .9 percent, to $65.85.