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Caterpillar Inc., the biggest maker of construction and mining equipment, said the drop in its global retail machine sales accelerated because of bigger declines in Asia and North America.
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U.S. stocks fell, after the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index climbed to a five-year high, as investors awaited the start of the corporate earnings season tomorrow.
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Machinery stocks may outperform the market through the end of the year as new orders rebound, helping to defy concerns about another U.S. recession.
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Deere & Co., the largest maker of agricultural equipment, fell after JPMorgan Chase & Co. downgraded the shares on concern the U.S. drought may slow sales of tractors and combines to farmers.
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The unemployment rate in North Dakota is 3.7 percent, and “if it wasn’t for cable news, we probably wouldn’t have any idea that the rest of the country was any different,” said Doug Johnson, co-owner of crop insurer TCI Insurance in West Fargo, who added six new employees this year.
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Caterpillar Inc. ’s new Chief Executive Officer Doug Oberhelman inherited an earnings target that analysts project he won’t meet.
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Private nonresidential construction may pick up this year, as demand grows for new U.S. projects.
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Cloudless skies seldom look so ominous.
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Deere & Co., the world’s largest maker of agricultural equipment, raised its full-year earnings forecast and posted fiscal second-quarter profit that topped analysts’ estimates after higher crop prices supported farming incomes in the U.S.
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Record U.S. agricultural exports are providing an unexpected boost to President Barack Obama ’s target of doubling overseas sales by 2015 and driving earnings for Agco Corp., CF Industries Holdings Inc. and Cargill Inc.
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