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Boeing plans to make an additional $3.5 billion payment for its pension liabilities ahead of the time due. This is a result of its increasing confidence as sales of Boeing jets have increased with a backlog of orders of $500 billion. Shares are up 36% in 2017.

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Whats behind the surge in delayed flights in the past year. With the New York, Newark, Philadelphia area hardest hit, especially La Guardia airport. Passengers and the airlines have become so used to the advantages of smaller planes and with Congress mandating a phase out of slot requirements which were eliminated at Kennedy airport, there has been a tremendous increase in smaller planes providing direct service to smaller towns and cities, such as La Guardia to Madison, Wisconsin. The addition of a 37 seater plane for a new American service from La Guardia to Flint, Michigan shows that this has gotten out of hand, because la Guardia is one of the worst affected airports, with chronic delays even before this. For the year 2007 ending May smaller planes flights increased 85% over the previous year into Kennedy and they are more likely to be filled. 75% of the flights between Toronto and La Guardia are on planes with less than 100 seats, with 20 such flights alone competing for runway space. When all these flights from all parts of the country enter the east coast cities its like entering a 2 lane tunnel to get to places like New York, with the additioal problem that delays in New York cascading into delays alll over the country, as these delays affect other flights....

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Positions different industries are taking on the energy consumption question.

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Expectations are for 0.1% GDP growth in the eurozone for the 2nd quarter 2014 compared with the 1st quarter, annual rate of 0.4% growth. Germany's growth is expected to be flat for the second quarter.

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Southwest bolsters its cash position.