This week, our national debt hit $15 trillion. The urgency of our debt crisis demands that Congress pass true spending...

Robert W. Baird & Co. Inc. analysts have downgraded Milwaukee-based Brady Corp. to neutral and lowered its price target to $31.

Cree’s Ruud Lighting subsidiary in Sturtevant announced it will expand and add up to 469 new full-time jobs.

Menomonee Falls-based Magnetek Inc. announced that its board of directors has approved a 1-for-10 reverse split of its common stock.

Menomonee Falls-based Magnetek Inc. reported fiscal first quarter net income of $1.7 million, or 5 cents per share, up from $271,000, or 1 cent per share, in the same period a year ago.

The Wisconsin economy is expanding at a moderate pace, as manufacturing continues to grind out a modest recovery, while agriculture output is on pace for another solid year, according to the State Monitor report released by BMO Capital Markets Economics.

Rockwell Automation, Inc. announced it has started the construction of a new manufacturing plant in the city of Jundiai near Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Nyrstar Hobart, a global multi-metals company, has awarded a contract worth more than $2.5 million order to Milwaukee-based Rockwell Automation Inc. and its Global Solutions team.

Executives representing a diverse range of industries will share insights about the year ahead in business at the 11th annual Northern Trust Economic Trends Breakfast to be presented by BizTimes Media on Friday, Jan. 20.

MillerCoors LLC will host its annual Holiday Lites tour beginning on December 2 at 4:40 p.m.

Manufacturing resources

The Oct. 31 bluff collapse at the We Energies power plant in Oak Creek sent coal ash and construction...