Industrials

The Environmental Protection Agency is banning consumer sales of a paint stripper after personal appeals by families of men who died while using the product.

For more than six decades, the Federal Aviation Administration has relied on employees of airplane manufacturers to do government-required safety inspections as planes are being designed or assembled.

The pilot of the Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed requested permission "in a panicky voice" to return to the airport shortly after takeoff, The New York Times reports.

A judge has tossed out a lawsuit Ohio filed against the developers of a $4.2 billion natural gas pipeline that stretches from West Virginia to Michigan.

U.S. industrial production rose a slight 0.1 percent in February, as an increase in utilities and mining offset the second straight monthly drop in manufacturing.

The company made false and misleading comments to shareholders about “vehicle quality, environmental compliance” and its financial standing, according to the agency.   

The Latest on a Connecticut court reinstating part of a wrongful death lawsuit filed by victims of the Newtown school shooting against gun maker Remington (all times local): 1:25 p.m.

Boeing's newest version of its best-selling airliner has crashed twice in less than six months, delivering a massive blow to the company's reputation.

Boeing's newest version of its best-selling airliner ever was supposed to boost its fortunes for years to come.

___ Ethiopia crash black boxes arrive in France for analysis HEJERE, Ethiopia (AP) — Flight recorders from a doomed Ethiopian Airlines flight have arrived in France for analysis.

The Connecticut Supreme Court is scheduled to rule on whether gun maker Remington can be sued for making the Bushmaster rifle used to kill 20 children and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012.

Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily on Thursday: Facebook Inc., down $3.20 to $170.17

Boeing soared early in 2019 and lifted the Dow Jones Industrial Average with it.

Plaintiffs argued Remington "negligently entrusted" consumers with a dangerous rifle.

High court rules gun maker Remington can be sued over marketing of rifle used in Newtown school shooting.

The company expects profits to drop in 2019, but cash flow to return to positive in 2020 and beyond.

Global port operator DP World says its profit rose 10 percent in 2018 despite worldwide tensions over trade amid a trade war between China and the U.S. and fears about Britain leaving the European Union.

The company said it expects adjusted industrial free cash flow to be positive in 2020.

The Abu Dhabi-based long-haul carrier Etihad Airways says it lost $1.28 billion in 2018, the third consecutive year of losses of over a billion dollars.

French activists have spray-painted the Paris headquarters of Bayer AG and plastered it with signs to protest its production of environment-damaging pesticides.