Industrials

Shares of some top aerospace companies are up at 1 p.m.: Boeing rose $1.52 or 1.2 percent, to $125.34.

Shares of some top construction companies are mixed at 10 a.m.: Fluor fell $1.27 or 1.9 percent, to $65.15.

Shares of some top airlines companies are up at 10 a.m.: Delta Air rose $.68 or 1.7 percent, to $39.82.

Shares of some top aerospace companies are up at 10 a.m.: Boeing rose $1.49 or 1.2 percent, to $125.31.

The president of the West Virginia Coal Association reports a decrease in the number of coal mining sites in the state.

ExxonMobil Corp.'s refining and chemical operations rescued the company's third quarter results amid falling global oil prices and lower oil and gas production.

Shares of some top aerospace companies were up at the close of trading: Boeing rose $.74 or .6 percent, to $123.82.

A fledgling metal manufacturing company that promises to make lighter, stronger and less expensive parts has won the million-dollar grand prize in a contest aimed at attracting entrepreneurs to Buffalo.

Shares of some top airlines companies were down at the close of trading: Delta Air fell $.44 or 1.1 percent, to $39.14.

Montenegro's government has signed a loan deal with a Chinese bank to build a stretch of highway to neighboring Serbia, the latest Chinese investment project in the Balkans.

A Chinese pharmaceutical ingredients maker is planning to invest $22.5 million to establish operations in Virginia, creating 376 jobs.

Shares of some top aerospace companies are down at 10 a.m.: Boeing fell $.58 or .5 percent, to $122.50.

Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Wednesday on the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Market: NYSE Orbital Sciences Corp., down $5.10 to $25.27 The space systems company's unmanned rocket bound for the International Space Station exploded moments after liftoff in Virginia.

Shares of some top construction companies are mixed at 1 p.m.: Fluor fell $.85 or 1.3 percent, to $65.76.

Developers said Wednesday they're starting construction on a privately-funded $1.4 billion retractable-roof sports arena and resort backed by a former UNLV and National Basketball Association player at a former waterpark site on the Las Vegas Strip.

Protests at a natural gas storage facility in a depleted Finger Lakes salt mine on Wednesday led to the arrests of 10 people, including a leader of the anti-fracking movement in New York.

A dispute between North Carolina officials and Alcoa Inc. over the right to control the water and electricity coming from the state's second-largest river system is before a federal judge.

A leading U.S. coal company says it has added roughly 100 million tons of coal reserves and resources to its southern Illinois portfolio.

Cape Girardeau is looking for an airport tenant for the second time in the past decade, after a private manufacturing company again went bankrupt.

NASA and officials from a commercial rocket company are searching for debris and answers following the explosion of a rocket and cargo module that were to deliver supplies to astronauts aboard the International Space Station.