Shares of industrial and transportation companies were more or less flat as production rates remained a worry for some major manufacturers.
Boeing shares continued a decline due to comments about production levels of the aerospace company's key 737 MAX jet model.
The union representing more than 9,000 Stellantis employees in Canada said it could be in a strike position in the coming weeks unless the carmaker changes course on its plan to sell a Toronto-area factory to a defense firm.
Volvo Car, the Swedish car maker majority owned by Chinese firm Zhejiang Geely Holding, said it would launch 13 new car models by the end of the decade in an effort to rekindle consumer demand. Volvo also acknowledged that its electric-vehicle strategy in the U.S. had to be revised.
Lockheed Martin Chief Executive Jim Taiclet said the weapons maker was running ahead of schedule on its plan to more than triple production of sorely needed Patriot missiles.
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