SEOUL, May 17- Overtaking Apple Inc as the world's leading maker of smartphones has stretched Samsung Electronics Co's in-house supply lines, and the South Korean firm is now courting some of its rival's main parts suppliers.
May 6- World Kitchen, which makes and distributes popular kitchen and housewares products under brands including Pyrex, Corelle and CorningWare, is exploring a sale of the company, according to three sources familiar with the matter. After being spun off from Corning, World Kitchen was acquired by Borden for about $600 million, according to reports at the time.
May 6- World Kitchen, which makes and distributes popular kitchen and housewares products under brands including Pyrex, Corelle and CorningWare, is exploring a sale of the company, according to three sources familiar with the matter. After being spun off from Corning, World Kitchen was acquired by Borden for about $600 million, according to reports at the time.
*Piper Jaffray raises target price to $16 from $15; rating overweight. Reuters Station users, click. 1568. Reuters Station users, click. 4899.
*Corning announces expansion of clean-air products facilities. *Approved capital expenditure plan of about $250 million to increase. *Board approved a capital expenditure plan of about $250 million to increase.
*Oppenheimer raises price target to $16 from $15; rating outperform. For a summary of rating and price target changes on U.S. companies: Reuters Eikon users, click on RCH/US Reuters 3000 Xtra users, double-click RCH/US Reuters Station users, click. 1568.
*Stifel raises target price to $16 from $15; rating buy. Reuters Station users, click. 1568. Reuters Station users, click. 4899.
*RBC raises price target to $15 from $13; rating sector perform. Reuters Station users, click. 1568. Reuters Station users, click. 4899.
The Dow dipped while the S&P 500 edged up on Wednesday as a sharp drop in durable goods orders last month added to worries about slower U.S. economic activity and Apple's results disappointed investors. **BOEING CO, $91.15, up 3.3 pct. **APPLE INC, $401.20, down 1 pct.
*Boeing rallies after results, offsets Dow and S&P losses. NEW YORK, April 24- U.S. stocks edged lower on Wednesday as weaker-than-expected economic data and disappointing earnings, including some from the biggest corporate names, overshadowed a rally in Boeing shares.
*P&G slips, Boeing gains after earnings. But support for the Dow and S&P was provided Boeing Co, which jumped 4.2 percent to $91.92 as the top boost for each index after the aerospace giant reported first-quarter earnings.
*P&G slips, Boeing gains after earnings. "It's basically just confirming what we've seen in the economic numbers so far this month, that basically, things weren't quite as good as we thought at the end of the first quarter," said Peter Jankovskis, co-chief investment officer at OakBrook Investments LLC in Lisle, Illinois.
*First-quarter adj EPS $0.30 vs est $0.24. *First-quarter revenue flat at $1.81 bln vs est $1.96 bln. April 24- Specialty glass maker Corning Inc's first-quarter profit beat analysts' estimates, helped by strong demand for Gorilla Glass used in smartphones and tablets, as the company looks to touch-screen PC notebooks for further growth.
SINGAPORE/ NEW YORK, April 14- The touted arrival this year of wearable gadgets such as computer displays strapped to wrists and in wrap-around glasses is just a step towards a bigger revolution in screens- those that can be bent, folded and rolled up.
*Nippon Electric Glass Co Ltd. *Heraeus, family-owned firm based in Germany. On ITO replacements, Samsung is working on graphene and with California- based Unidym, part of South Korean electronics firm Wisepower Co Ltd, on carbon-nanotubes, according to Lawrence Gasman, principal analyst at Nanomarkets.