(Adds earnings detail). April 23 (Reuters) - Rising jet production helped Boeing Co post a 14 percent rise in adjusted net profit in the first quarter, beating estimates, and the company notched up its full-year forecast.

Delta Air Lines Inc. (DAL:US) topped analysts' first-quarter profit estimates as increased passenger traffic, higher fares and lower fuel prices trumped winter storms that forced the carrier to ground more than 17,000 flights.

BEIJING: China's factory activity shrank for the fourth straight month in April, signalling economic weakness into the second quarter, a preliminary survey showed on Wednesday, although the pace of decline eased helped by policy steps to arrest the ...

April 23 (Reuters) - Boeing Co reported an 8 percent increase in quarterly revenue, helped by a rise in commercial aircraft deliveries.

U.S. stock futures waffled slightly below record levels, as investors digested mixed earnings reports and some weakness in overseas markets.

McDonald's said Tuesday that its profit slipped in the first quarter as global sales remained weak for the world's biggest hamburger chain.

It may seem counterintuitive, but fast-rising home values are the biggest negative in today's housing recovery. After an epic plunge in prices following the financial crisis, the thought was that rising home prices were a sign that all would be well again soon.

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., April 23, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Reynolds American Inc. (NYSE:RAI) has released its first-quarter 2014 earnings.

Greek Deputy Finance Minister Christos Staikouras leaves a press conference in Athens, on Wednesday, April 23, 2014. Greece has reached a major financial milestone that its creditors demanded as a precondition for being granted more debt relief, the ...

BENNINGTON, Vt. (AP) - Vermont State Police say one person has been injured during a shooting in the lobby of the Bennington Police Department but that no officers have been wounded.

A JetBlue plane sits at the gate at Philadelphia International Airport May 23, 2013 after arriving from Boston's Logan Airport to start the company's service in Philadelphia.

Installment plans for cellphones are starting to squeeze out the time-honored practice of paying a subsidized price up front, AT&T says.

BRUSSELS - (AP) -- Official figures show that governments across the 28-country European Union recorded lower budget deficits in 2013 amid lower spending and an economic recovery that shored up revenues.

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - American progressives continue to celebrate Thomas Piketty's new book on capitalism, which says that under present trends the inequality in society will grow inexorably with negative implications for growth and prosperity.