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US President Joe Biden speaks in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on March 31, 2021.

Biden’s Rust Belt revival plan risks luring more foreign steel

April 2, 2021 at 3:59 p.m.

Arguably the biggest beneficiaries of President Joe Biden's plan to spend $620 billion on highways, roads and bridges are the steelmakers. The Brazilian ones, that is. And the Korean ones....

Butler on wheels, robot cutting salad: How COVID-19 sped automation

December 17, 2020 at 4:24 p.m.

For decades, the attitude of unions and their advocates to increased automation could be summed up in one word: no. They feared that every time a machine was slipped into...

<p>A conveyor deposits raw aluminum ore onto a stockpile as a Caterpillar Inc. excavator passes at the Northam Platinum Ltd. Booysendal platinum mine outside Lydenburg, South Africa, on Jan. 23, 2018. </p>

Trade war threatens to take legs from Caterpillar’s resurgence

July 27, 2018 at 8:14 p.m.

For Caterpillar, a bellwether of American industrial might, President Donald Trump's trade war is threatening to halt what was shaping up as a record year for profits. Analysts have been...

Caterpillar may move machine production from its Aurora area plant.

Caterpillar forecasts fall short as demand slump persists

June 6, 2018 at 9:36 a.m.

Caterpillar forecast 2017 revenue and earnings that trailed analysts' estimates as signs of a recovery in mining and energy have yet to translate into a rebound in demand for the...

Caterpillar plans layoffs, tempers sales expectations as Brexit clouds outlook

June 10, 2018 at 2:55 p.m.

Caterpillar, the biggest producer of construction and mining equipment, said it sees 2016 sales at the lower end of a previous forecast as equipment demand fails to rebound after a...

While the billions of new U.S. pennies put into circulation every year still cost more to make than they are worth, the government is catching a break from the collapse in metals prices.

Making pennies just got a little cheaper

June 11, 2018 at 10:35 a.m.

A penny just got a little cheaper. Making it, that is. While the billions of new U.S. pennies put into circulation every year still cost more to make than they...

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