Praxair Incorporated

If you've tried to buy a bouquet of balloons lately for a birthday party or to cheer up a sick friend, you may have been told you're out of luck. That's because a nationwide helium shortage is bursting Michiana's balloon sales.Glenn Collier spends most of...

Attorney Alaine C. Doolan of the Hartford law firm of Robinson and Cole LLP was one of two honorees inducted into the Connecticut Corporate Mentoring Hall of Fame at a breakfast hosted by the Governor's Prevention Partnership at the Rocky Hill Sheraton on...

The Fortune 500 list for 2013 is out, and the ranking of publicly traded U.S. companies by total sales contains two new triumphs for Connecticut and one outrage. In all, Connecticut has 16 companies on the list, our largest total in recent years, led, as...

* Euro STOXX 50 down 0.5 pct, falls from near 2-yr high * E.ON the top faller after going -ex-dividend * Market looks beyond poor macro data to central banks * Linde rises on good results, bullish outlook * Thin trading volumes as UK market closed By...

By Shankar Ramakrishnan NEW YORK, April 29 (IFR) - Some of the US's biggest brand names raced to the market on Monday to lock in tight pricing on their deals before Apple comes to the market with its jumbo offering. A total of USD6.725bn was raised...

By John Balassi NEW YORK, April 29 (IFR) - Apple mandated Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs to lead bond investor calls beginning Monday for a potential first-ever debt sale by the company, adding momentum to a US high-grade market that was peppered with...

April 26 (Reuters) - Wall Street securities analysts revised their ratings and price targets on several U.S. companies, including Amazon, Wynn Resorts and Celgene, on Friday. HIGHLIGHTS * Amazon.com Inc : JP Morgan, others cut price target on the...

The AFL-CIO launched its annual database of CEO pay Monday, showing the average 2012 pay of CEOs at companies on the Standard & Poor's 500 index was $12.3-million, or 354 times more than the average American worker earned. The average of those S&P 500...

Indiana University received the go ahead to study what some call "clean" coal Wednesday. The U.S. Department of Energy awarded the university with about $300,000 to study the future of coal. IU will partner with Purdue and Praxair Surface Technologies....

Cleaning snow from Brown County roads cost the highway department plenty this winter.  A total of $736,291 has been spent plowing snow from roads, Jan Weismantel, county highway superintendent, told county commissioners during Tuesday's meeting. That...

The following is a list put together by BrightScope of the best 401(k) plans among CT companies with more than $100 Million in assets. Company -- Plan Name -- BrightScope Rating (Rounded to the nearest whole number) 1. The Phoenix Companies, Inc.: The...

Monday: -- Earnings: Altera Corp.; American Express Co.; Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc.; Avaya Inc.; BellSouth Corp.; Centex Corp.; Kraft Foods Inc.; Pactiv Corp.; Quest Diagnostics Inc.; SanDisk Corp.; Texas Instruments Inc. Tuesday: -- July consumer...