U.K. Government Has Proposed A £600 Million Package To Help Its Steel Companies Go Green

Getty Images Key takeaways Runaway energy prices in the U.K. have made the cost of industry prohibitive over the past couple of years. This is of particular note for steel mills which sometimes use ca...

3M To Ax 2,500 Manufacturing Jobs Citing Turbulent Macroeconomic Forces

Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Key takeaways 3M announced poor Q4 results and a weak outlook for 2023 As part of the announcement, 3M announced a layoff of 2,500 workers, mos...

3M Stock Plunges In Response To Lower-Than-Expected Revenue

Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Key takeaways 3M posted lower-than-expected revenue for the fourth quarter of 2022 The company is cutting approximately 2,500 jobs 3M stock pri...

Why Layoffs at 3M, Dow Are More Concerning Than Amazon, Google and Microsoft

Layoffs are spreading beyond tech. That’s a troubling trend investors should be paying attention to. On Thursday, chemicals giant Dow Inc. (ticker: DOW) reported weaker-than-expected fourth-quarter nu...

3M, Lyft, Verizon, Lululemon, and More Stock Market Movers

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Tesla, AT&T, Visa, Chevron, Microsoft, and More Stocks to Watch This Week

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Tesla, AT&T, Visa, Chevron, Microsoft, and More Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week

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Facing Litigation And Years-Long Push For Increased Regulation, Conglomerate Ends Production Of PFAS Chemicals

3M factory (Photo by DAVID PINTENS/BELGA/AFP via Getty Images) BELGA/AFP via Getty Images The Environmental Protection Agency describes PFAS, the acronym referring to Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl chemical...

Tesla Could Be a ‘Zombie Stock’ as Interest Rates Rise

A longtime pessimist about Tesla says the shares could be headed for what he calls “zombie stock” territory. David Trainer, CEO of stock research firm New Constructs, who wrote in August 2013 that Tes...

3M Earns Quick Appellate Review of Earplug Unit’s Bankruptcy Shield

A federal appeals court granted 3M Co. ’s request to review a bankruptcy judge’s refusal to stop mass injury lawsuits from proceeding against the conglomerate following the chapter 11 filing of its ea...

Kings & Aristocrats: 5 Retirement Favorites

Cash is king, economic treasure and financial successful retirement conceptual idea with gold metal … [+] crown on pile of 100 dollar bills isolated on white background Getty With the average di...

3M’s Next Problem For Investors Could Be The Dividend.

Text size 3M’s CEO says the dividend is a high priority for the company. Chona Kasinger/Bloomberg 3M investors have had to endure a lot lately, with a slowing economy, rising inflation, and toug...

3M Plans Job Cuts to Rein in Expenses as Legal Troubles Grow

Text size 3M suffered a legal setback last week when a judge denied a motion that would have limited payouts. Alamy 3M , the maker of Post-it notes and Scotch tape, plans to eliminate jobs in a cost-c...

3M’s Bankruptcy Setback Deepens Earplug Litigation Troubles

3M Co. had good reason to bet that it could use U.S. bankruptcy laws to shield itself from a mountain of personal-injury lawsuits filed over its allegedly defective military earplugs. But after a bank...

3M Stock Reels From Legal Setback, EPA News

Text size 3M Scotch brand shipping tape. Chona Kasinger/Bloomberg The conglomerate 3M is facing a couple of legal risks that are weighing on its shares. Investors’ approach has been to sell first and ...

Bankruptcy Courts Are Good At Adjudicating Tort Claims

Economists tend to view tort law differently than lawyers—or state attorney generals—and this difference explains both the advent of bankruptcy trusts in adjudicating class action liability claims and...

3M Stock Drops. Judge Says No to Bankruptcy Plan to Deal With Legal Liability.

Text size 3M stock was dealt a blow by a U.S. bankruptcy judge on Friday. Alamy 3M stock posted its biggest one-day decline since April 2019 after a legal ruling went against the company. On Friday af...

3M Is Denied Bankruptcy Shield Against Mass Earplug Claims

A bankruptcy judge declined on Friday to shield 3M Co. from continued litigation involving its military earplugs, a setback for the conglomerate’s attempt to shift the mass injury claims to a friendli...

3M Unit Defends Request to Shield Parent From Mass Earplug Lawsuits

Lawyers representing 3M Co. ’s bankrupt Aearo Technologies LLC subsidiary defended its request to a bankruptcy judge to extend a litigation stay to the parent company to resolve mass earplug lawsuits,...

Judge Knocks 3M Bankruptcy Strategy for Military Earplug Lawsuits

A federal judge criticized 3M Co. ’s attempt to use the protections of chapter 11 to resolve mass injury claims by U.S. military veterans, but will allow a bankruptcy court to decide whether to shield...

3M Commits $1 Billion For Military Members Who Claim Earplugs Were Faulty

Topline Facing mounting legal trouble, manufacturing giant 3M unveiled plans Tuesday to commit $1 billion to a trust to resolve roughly 235,000 lawsuits from United States service members who allege t...

Manufacturing Titan 3M Is Spinning Off Its Healthcare Business Into A Separate Company

The 3M company, historically known as The Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company, is famous for some of the world’s most well known products. These products include daily household staples such as...

Apple, Visa, Microsoft, Exxon Mobil, Chipotle, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week

It will be a busy week on both the micro and macro fronts. Second-quarter earnings season ramps up, as more than 150 S&P 500 firms report, including Big Tech. The Federal Reserve’s policy committe...

3M Earplugs Fight Stems From Self-Made Legal Battle

A long-running legal battle over allegedly defective earplugs made by 3M arose after the company initiated a separate dispute against a smaller competitor, court documents showed. 3M’s effort to prote...

A GE Bear Looks Into 2023. He Doesn’t Like What He Sees.

Text size The General Electric logo is displayed on the outside of jet-engine test tunnels. Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg We are in the second half of the year, and 2022 earnings estimates will start to giv...

The Best Income Investments Now

Income-oriented investors, it’s time to celebrate. There are suddenly many more opportunities—in areas ranging from junk bonds to real estate investment trusts—after the bear markets in stocks and bon...

Uplifting Individuality Is Musician Taylor Bennett’s Pride And Joy

Taylor Bennett Courtesy of Shore Fire/Taylor Bennett Taylor Bennett not only talks about uplifting individuality, he lives by it. The 26-year-old music artist, who happens to be the younger brother of...

Robots Pick Up More Work at Busy Factories

Robots are turning up on more factory floors and assembly lines as companies struggle to hire enough workers to fill rising orders. Orders for workplace robots in the U.S. increased by a record 40% du...

The Chip Sector Has a New Worry in Plant Shutdown for Key PFAS Chemicals

Text size PFAS chemicals are used in the etching process for chip manufacturing. Dreamstime The fragile semiconductor supply chain has one more thing to worry about. Chips have been relatively scarce ...

Here’s What a 3M Breakup Could Look Like

Text size PFAS problems, product liability litigation tied to earplugs, and slowing growth have caused 3M stock to languish. Dreamstime What would 3M look like if it went down a General Electric -like...

Warren Buffett Puts Some of His $144 Billion to Work With Alleghany Deal

Warren Buffett Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Fortune/Time Inc Text size It was only three weeks ago that Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett wrote of the unpleasantness associated with h...

3M Stock Is Soaring. Thank Johnson & Johnson.

3M stock is jumping Friday. The primary reason isn’t the broad market rally, although that helps. The best explanation for 3M’s rise comes from an odd source for an industrial conglomerate. Johnson &a...