German industrial bellwether Siemens AG lowered its profit outlook for this year due to weak demand from industry and delays in delivering high speed trains and connecting offshore wind farms. Siemens ...

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The productivity of U.S. workers rose in the first quarter as companies focused on containing labor expenses.

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Bankrupt Lehman Brothers (LEHMQ) sued Intel (INTC), accusing it of seizing $1B in collateral in breach of a swap agreement, a court filing showed, reports Reuters.

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IG Metall, Germany’s largest manufacturing labor union, widened protests including temporary walkouts into the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg in a push for higher pay raise for workers at industrial companies....

Boeing has started offering its long-awaited 777X long-range jet, paving the way for a 'mini-jumbo' war with European rival Airbus, industry sources said on Wednesday. The move backed by Boeing's board ...

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Britain's Rolls-Royce on Thursday announced the shock departure of Mark King, the highly regarded boss of its key aerospace business. Rolls, the world's second-largest maker of aircraft engines behind ...

LONDON, May 2 (Reuters) - Britain's Rolls-Royce on Thursday announced the shock departure of Mark King, the highly regarded boss of its key aerospace business. Rolls, the world's second-largest maker of ...

Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc, Europe’s largest maker of aircraft engines, said the head of its main aerospace unit, Mark King, will depart in June, triggering a reorganization of management ranks.

LONDON, May 2 (Reuters) - Britain's Rolls-Royce said it was on track to report good growth in underlying profit in 2013, after a strong first quarter from its civil aerospace unit. Rolls, the world's second-largest ...

* Siemens now sees FY profit at lower end of outlook range * Says now sees moderate decline in revenues * Q2 revenues fall 7 pct, new orders jump 20 pct * Q2 profit flat vs yr earlier, misses consensus ...

Siemens AG, Europe’s largest engineering company, cut its full-year forecast amid a slowdown in orders for some offerings and charges for the delayed delivery of trains.

GD Midea Holding, the big Chinese appliance maker controlled by billionaire He Xiangjian, said on Saturday its first-quarter net profit climbed by 24% to 1.1 billion yuan, or $177 million, compared with 871 million yuan a year earlier. Sales at the maker of refrigerators, ovens and TVs totaled 22 billion yuan, [...]

An updated version of the jet, with lightweight carbon-composite wings and the potential to cut fuel usage by 20 percent, is being pitched to airlines and leasing companies.

May 1 (Bloomberg) -- Mike Harsh, chief technology officer at General Electric Co.'s health-care unit, GE Healthcare Inc., talks about innovation in the health-care industry. He speaks with Willow Bay at ...

Methil port north of Edinburgh, once the focus of Scotland’s coal exports, is set to tap a greener kind of energy as Samsung Heavy Industry Co. constructs the world’s biggest wind turbine in the town’s ...

A look at New York Stock Exchange 10 most-active stocks at the close of trading: AT&T Inc. rose .3 percent to $37.56 with 21,475,200 shares traded. Advanced Micro Devices Inc. rose 14.2 percent to $3.22 ...

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Comcast Corp., the nation's largest cable company and owner of NBCUniversal, on Wednesday said its net income rose 17 percent in the latest quarter, powered by continued strong results from its cable operations. ...

Paul Maritz (Photo credit: Dell's Official Flickr Page) On March 15, EMC’s Chairman and CEO Joe Tucci announced the division of EMC into three groups: EMC Information Infrastructure (EMC II), EMC VMware, and EMC Pivotal. In the grand scheme of all things EMC, I believe there’s a message in naming the newest [...]

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General Electric Co. is in talks with New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and Attorney General Eric Schneiderman on expanding its cleanup of contaminants in the Hudson River, according to the head of the state’s ...

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Greenlee, a Textron company, announced it has acquired ownership of Sherman & Reilly, a manufacturer of underground and aerial transmission and distribution products. Sherman & Reilly is the leading U.S. ...

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Shares of some top tools and appliances companies are mixed at 1 p.m.: General Electric Co. fell $.04 or .2 percent, to $22.25. Snap-On fell $1.16 or 1.3 percent, to $85.04. Stanley Works rose $.05 or ...

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Comcast reported earnings that topped Wall Street analysts' estimates by a penny a share on Wednesday, driven by gains in its cable and theme park businesses.

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Board member William Beattie purchased 10,000 shares of General Electric on April 24 at an average price of $21.80 per share.

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May 1 (Reuters) - Privately held U.S. power company LS Power said Wednesday it completed the first 19-megawatt (MW) block of the 127-MW Arlington Valley II solar photovoltaic power plant in Arizona. LS ...

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General Electric Co., the biggest U.S. supplier of wind turbines, will supply three systems that include battery storage to Invenergy LLC for a Texas wind farm.

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ANA Holdings Inc., and Japan Airlines Co., the world’s biggest operators of Boeing Co. 787s, forecast a bigger impact this year from the plane’s grounding as they prepare to restart commercial flights ...

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