Dupont E I Nemours News

Environmental center adds to Riverfront attractions in Wilmington, Del. GREEN SPACE: The DuPont Environmental Education Center in Wilmington includes a boardwalk surrounding a man-made marsh in a wildlife refuge.

U.S. stocks rose slightly Tuesday as reports showed home prices fell at a slower annual rate in October and U.S. consumers turned more optimistic in December as expectations rose to a two-year high.

DDS Wireless International Inc. announces today that its Transit and Taxi business units, StrataGen Systems and Digital Dispatch, have each signed contracts featuring the sale of the Company's iMax mobile data terminals.

Energy and materials companies helped push U.S. stocks back into the black Wednesday afternoon as commodity prices rose.

U.S. stocks rose Tuesday as existing home sales came in much stronger than expected, but a decline in a key manufacturing index kept the gains in check.

It didn't take long for Akili Dorsey-Bell to get into her part as Clara Stahlbaum, the main character of the Nutcracker ballet, based on the story "The Nutcracker and the King of Mice." "At first it was really nerve-wracking," said Akili, 13, of Wilmington.

U.S. stocks traded higher Wednesday ahead of an interest-rate decision from the Federal Reserve, as a rebound in oil prices lifted several energy companies.

PHOTOS COURTESY OF RIC LARKIN. A Toro walk-behind mower with attached sulky is used to mow this area of the grounds at Nemours.

U.S. stocks traded in a narrow range early Wednesday afternoon as a rally for energy and materials stocks was offset by a pullback in consumer companies ahead of key data later in the week.

Presidential face time doesn't come cheap, so when President Barack Obama meets with chief executives of major banks at the White House on Monday, financial industry officials expect him to strongly push for more lending to help promote economic recovery.

U.S. stocks gained and the dollar rallied Friday, as a series of reports on the consumer pointed to an improving economy.

The dollar erased its gains after Bernanke said at midday the central bank will eventually have to raise interest rates, but he emphasized that that time could be far away as the economy faces "headwinds." This drove us to do research on the following 6 stocks Alpha Natural Resources Inc.

While Congress debates forcing bosses to pay for workers' health insurance, analyst Mark Kalinowski , of Philadelphia-based Janney Montgomery Scott , asked the operators of 192 McDonald's restaurants what that would mean for them.

For an earlier generation, one that grew up watching the movie "The Graduate," the future might have been capsulized in one word: plastics.

A 5-year-old boy died Saturday after a fire gutted his home in the Dunleith community south of Wilmington, officials said.

Filed under: Apple Inc , Bank of America , duPont deNemours Today's big shock came in the figures on unemployment as the rate posted a surprising drop to 10.0% from 10.2% . The second was in non-farm payrolls, which posted a decline of only 11,000 jobs rather than the 100,000 expected.

DuPont shares fell more than 7% on Friday after the chemical giant's Pioneer Hi-bred business said it would postpone the release of its new corn and soybean seed products.

Ticonderoga says DuPont may continue to be forced to compete on price. Ticonderoga Securities DUPONT ANNOUNCED that it would be delaying the launch of its Optimum GAT trait in both corn and soybeans.

Stocks eked out a small gain Friday in a session that saw gold plunge and the dollar leap as much better-than-expected jobs data prompted a breakdown in key risk relationships across financials markets.

Shares of DuPont tumbled in Friday morning trading on news that the company's Pioneer Hi-Bred seed business will delay the release of its corn hybrids and soybean varieties products.