Paccar Inc.

US truck and construction machinery makers rose after Komatsu Ltd. of Japan, the world’s second-largest seller of large dump trucks and excavators, said it expects sales in China to gain up to 50 percent in the year starting April 1. Bellevue, Wash.-based Paccar makes Kenworth and Peterbilt trucks. Caterpillar Inc. of Peoria, Ill., the world’s largest maker of bulldozers, gained ...

Warsaw, Ind.-based Zimmer Holdings regained some ground after analysts said the market “overreacted’’ to a study presented at a medical conference showing problems with one of the company’s knee implants. A Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. analyst told investors the study would not have a significant impact on sales. Zimmer is the world’s biggest maker of artificial hips and knee ...

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Q&A: Luxury home market looks on its way back up

John Daugherty Jr. says there are plenty of positive signs that the luxury housing market is turning around

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Examiner unveils Lehman accounting tricks

An accounting gimmick called Repo 105 provided financial relief for Lehman Brothers in the months before its spectacular collapse, an autopsy of the once-venerable Wall Street house has found.

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Next loan guarantee could go to Bay City nuke plant

The head of the joint venture planning to add two new reactors to the South Texas Project nuclear plant said he believes it could be next to receive a federal loan guarantee.

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Energy industry has a greener shade at CERAWeek

Although they're unenthusiastic about the Environmental Protection Agency's efforts to regulate greenhouse gases as pollutants, many CERAWeek speakers advocated some kind of federal approach to climate change.