Alcoa Incorporated

The misery worsened on Wall Street Tuesday, with stocks piling on losses late in the session and bringing the two-day decline in the Dow Jones industrials to more than 875 points amid escalating worries about credit markets and the financial sector....

PITTSBURGH (AP) _ Alcoa Inc., one of the world's largest aluminum producers, on Tuesday reported a 52-percent drop in third quarter profit and said it would conserve cash by suspending its stock buyback program and all non-critical capital projects....

Wall Street headed to a shaky start Tuesday after a huge sell-off the previous session, with investors waiting to see if central banks would try to alleviate the ongoing turmoil in the credit markets by cutting interest rates. Australia's central bank...

Tuesday •Federal Reserve meeting minutes •August consumer credit •Earnings: Acuity Brands Inc.; Alcoa Inc.; Sealy Corp.; Yum Brands Inc. Wednesday •August pending home sales •Earnings: Costco Wholesale Corp.; Monsanto...

The week ahead Third-quarter earnings season opens with reports from Dow components Alcoa and General Electric. Monday Earnings: IDT Tuesday Federal Reserve minutes (September meeting); consumer credit (August). Earnings: Alcoa, Safeway, Sealy,...

UNION PACIFIC -$7.34 (11%) to $62.10 Railroad stocks fell amid downbeat economic news, raising concerns that freight volumes may sink. The Standard & Poor's 500 railroad index had its biggest percentage decline in nearly 20 years. CSX Corp. shares...

WASHINGTON (AP) _ Jobs are vanishing at the fastest pace in more than five years with pink slips likely to keep stacking higher in the months ahead, an urgent signal the country may be careening toward a deep and painful recession just as Americans...

Jobs are vanishing at the fastest pace in more than five years, an urgent signal the country might be careening toward a deep and painful recession. Increasingly skittish employers chopped payrolls in September by 159,000 jobs — more than...

Employers slashed payrolls by 159,000 in September, the most in more than five years, a worrisome sign that the economy is hurtling toward a deep recession. The Labor Department's fresh snapshot, released Friday, also showed that the nation's...

Tight credit is taking a toll on U.S. manufacturing and jobs. More Americans than expected lined up at the unemployment lines last week and orders to factories plunged by the largest amount in two years, according to government data released Thursday....

Reynolds Consumer Products is closing its two Richmond-area aluminum foil plants. The company announced Wednesday that about 490 workers will lose their jobs. The first layoffs are expected to start in the fourth quarter and will continue into the...

Orchid Tunaya was the guest speaker Sept. 5 at Trinity Lutheran School. She talked about her firsthand experience of becoming a U.S. citizen. Students in the seventh-grade civics classes are learning about the naturalization process. The George...