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Shares of VSE Rank the Highest in Terms of Earnings Yield in the Research and Consulting Services Industry May 27, 2012 News Watch via COMTEX) -- Below are the three companies in the Research and Consulting Services industry with the highest earnings yields.

LIMA, Peru - Trade between China and Peru , a key U.S. ally in the regional drug war, is at an all-time high.

Clinton F. Ivins Jr., owner, president and chairman of Mead Supply Inc. in Buffalo for 32 years, died Monday at his home at the Weinberg Campus in Buffalo after a short illness.

Weather data, satellite imagery and computer modeling could provide tools to forecast a norovirus outbreak in oysters in the Gulf of Mexico, an LSU researcher says.

Lockheed Martin reports that the four-week-long Machinists' strike hasn't put much of a dent in productivity at the Fort Worth aeronautics plant.

Among the CEOs identified by Associated Press as earning the top paychecks at publicly traded companies are some with connections to Kansas and Wichita.

Alan Mulally, Ford Motor, $29.5 million, up 11 percent Source: Equilar The head of a typical public company made $9.6 million in 2011, according to an analysis by The Associated Press using data from Equilar, an executive pay research firm.

When Precision Castparts Corp. stock jumped again Monday after record quarterly sales, an Oklahoma City hedge-fund manager sold out of the Portland-based metals manufacturing giant.

In something straight out of scifi we get the news that the Lockheed Martin and Ekso Bionics are getting close to deploying their Human Universal Load Carrier hydraulic exoskeleton for testing on the front line.

SpaceX's Dragon successfully docked with the ISS as of 12:02pm EST, "according to Kyle Herring, a spokesman for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

The three directors who oversee risk at JPMorgan Chase & Co. include a museum head who sat on American International Group Inc.'s governance committee in 2008, the grandson of a billionaire and the chief executive officer of a company that makes flight controls and work boots.

Embraer SA , the world's fourth- biggest planemaker, is boosting efforts to sell more jets in Asia , the Middle East and Africa as the European debt crisis saps demand in the manufacturer's biggest market.

MINNEAPOLIS - President Barack Obama is coming to Minnesota next week for a speech to tout his initiatives before Congress.

Industry Minister Christian Paradis announced Friday that the federal government is raising to $1 billion the amount of foreign money that can go into a Canadian company before the investment is reviewed.

In this May 7, 2009 file photograph, Honeywell Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Dave Cote speaks after inaugurating the company's new facility in Bangalore, India.

France-based Airbus SAS has finalised an agreement with ST Aerospace and EADS EFW to establish collaboration for the launch of the A330 Passenger-to-Freighter conversion programme.

Brazilian mogul Eike Batista's Grupo EBX has announced a "strategic accord" with General Electric Co.

Wedged between an interstate highway and the Washington, D.C., Beltway, the understated corporate neighborhood Lockheed Martin Corp.

Lockheed Martin turned up the pressure on striking Machinists union members Thursday, announcing it would begin hiring temporary replacement workers to fill aircraft production jobs.

Lockheed Martin remains mum about whether an oxygen system flaw on its F-22 fighter might also plague its sibling, the F-35, but defense analysts say there are reasons to worry.