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The town's Open Space Committee and Historical Commission are teaming up to host a historical walking tour Oct.

Many value investors look for stocks trading at Price/Earnings multiples below 15 and Price/Book multiples below 3. Combining these valuation measures with a Zacks Rank of #1 or #2 helps to ensure that a stock ...

Investors might be leery of financial stocks, for good reason, but they seem to be abandoning shares of Cincinnati-area manufacturing companies, especially those whose fortunes are closely tied to a teetering ...

A new gelcoat formulation that delivers a higher level of weathering performance was introduced at the International Boatbuilders Exposition in Miami Beach, Fla., today by Ashland Performance Materials, a ...

James J. O'Brien, chairman and chief executive officer, Ashland Inc. , will make a presentation at the Credit Suisse Chemical and Ag Science Conference in New York City on Tuesday, Sept.

COVINGTON - Rising raw material costs and weak results in its performance materials division led to a 28 percent decline in Ashland Inc.'s third-quarter earnings.

Ashland Inc. 's net income for the quarter ended June 30 declined 28 percent to $72 million, or $1.13 per share, compared with $100 million, or $1.58, in the same period a year earlier, as higher costs of ...

Ashland Inc. reported Thursday a lower third-quarter profit and cautioned about its vulnerability to higher business costs.

You didn't think this batch of financial reports was going to contain much good news, did you? Now that the oil sector's got the jitters, attention is naturally focused on petroleum companies.

Ashland Inc. and Hercules Inc. have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Ashland would acquire all of the outstanding shares of Hercules for $18.60 per share in cash and 0.093 of a share of ...

Two multi-billion-dollar deals took place in the chemical sector last week. Could this be just the beginning of a new consolidation phase for the chemical stocks? If so, now is the time to buy into the sector ...

July 11, 2008, 10:32PM AROUND THE NATION Earnings GE's efforts slow decline in earnings General Electric reported a slight decline in second-quarter earnings Friday but managed to deliver results that were in ...

Comments from Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson about troubled mortgage lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and another record high day for oil prices sent the Dow Jones Industrial Average below the 11,000 mark ...

Investment bankers are keeping busy with chemical companies lately. For example, yesterday The Dow Chemical Company announced a $15.4 billion buyout of Rohm & Haas , which even included an investment from ...

Dow's world headquarters in Midland. Dow Chemical 's immediate stock price suffered for the company's agreement to acquire rival chemical company Rohm and Haas , but the move to diversify product lines could ...

Chemical company Ashland Inc. said Friday it will acquire Hercules Inc. in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $2.6 billion.

The effect of high oil prices is working its way through to chemicals companies, resulting in a negative outlook for most parts of the industry, according to Moody's. "Due to the rising cost of oil and energy ...

COVINGTON - Chemical company Ashland Inc. said it signed an agreement Wednesday with Germany's Sud-Chemie AG to form a joint venture to supply foundries with metal casting products.

A 2005 deal to end a joint venture has left Ashland Inc. and Marathon Oil Corp. with a $14.1 million tax bill.

Chemical company Ashland Inc. said it signed an agreement Wednesday with Germany's Sud-Chemie AG to form a joint venture to supply foundries with metal casting products.