(NEW YORK)An analyst on Friday improved his second-quarter forecast for construction products maker Louisiana-Pacific Corp. Lehman Brothers analyst Peter Ruschmeier revised his projection to...READ MORE
(NEW YORK)Wall Street analysts are beginning to suggest that recently falling petroleum prices plus continued dollar weakness could energize shares of some packaging and paper products maker...READ MORE
(NEW YORK)Shares of packaging makers staged a broad-based rally Thursday as the price of natural gas, which both powers their plants and goes into making plastics, continued to fall.READ MORE
(NEW YORK)An unusually low containerboard product inventory last month plus the likely acceptance of a July price increase lifted shares of containerboard product makers Wednesday.READ MORE
(NASHVILLE, Tenn.)Building materials supplier Louisiana-Pacific Corp. said Friday it has agreed to pay $46.8 million to settle antitrust litigation with a class of purchasers of oriented strand boar...READ MORE
(NEW YORK)Ten companies in the materials and processing sector are being to be added to the Russell 1000 in this year's reconstitution of the large-stock index, while three in the sector...READ MORE
(NEW YORK)The Standard & Poor's MidCap 400 index fell in midday trading Wednesday as the broader markets digested FedEx Corp.'s warning that slumping demand and high fuel prices may ...READ MORE