Career fair

Career fair

new castle, PA.

The fourth annual Business and Industry Career Fair will take place at Scottish Rite Cathedral, 110 E. Lincoln Ave., from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Oct. 21.

More than 1,000 10th-grade students from Lawrence and Mercer counties are invited to attend the fair.

Jeremy Bout, producer of “The Edge Factor Show,” will deliver the keynote speech about what students should find interesting about the world of manufacturing.

Students also will have the opportunity to speak one-on-one with employers. The fair is free.

Grant to help with center in Sharon

SHARON, Pa.

Gov. Tom Corbett announced a $2.6 million Economic Growth Initiative Grant to assist in establishment of the Sharon Center for Arts and Technology in the city.

The $5.6 million project, sponsored by the Community Foundation of Western PA and Eastern Ohio, will consist of the construction and establishment of a learning center focused on industry-specific job training to unemployed and underemployed adults in the health care industry, as well as cultural and learning opportunities to teenage youths in public schools in the Sharon area, according to a press release issued by the governor’s office.

VAM USA marks 30th anniversary

HOUSTON

The Vallourec, Nippon Steel and Sumitomo Metal Corp. and Sumitomo Corp. joint-venture company, VAM USA, celebrated its 30th anniversary this week. VAM USA is a supplier for premium-threaded connections for the oil and gas company.

US stocks close out worst week since May 2012

Investors avoided another roller-coaster day on Wall Street on Friday.

What they got instead was a steady, moderate decline that left the market with its worst weekly performance since May 2012.

Technology shares were especially hard-hit. Semiconductor makers slumped after Microchip Technology cut its sales forecast for the quarter and warned investors to expect bad news from others in the sector.

That sent shares lower for Avago Technologies, Intel and Texas Instruments, among others. Microchip Technology declined the most, shedding $5.59, or 12.3 percent, to $39.96.

Data breach at Kmart stores

NEW YORK

Sears Holdings Corp. said Friday that a data breach at its Kmart stores that started last month may have compromised some customers’ credit and debit cards.

The data theft at Kmart is the latest in a string of hacks at big retailers including Target, Supervalu and Home Depot.

Sears Holdings, which also operates Sears stores, said that Kmart’s information-technology department on Thursday detected a breach of its payment-data systems.

Vindicator staff/wire reports

Selected local stocks

STOCK, DIVIDENDCLOSECHANGE

Aqua America, .61, 23.82 .05

Avalon Holdings,3.65.11

Clear Channel, .46 20.91 —.44

Cortland Bancorp, 14.24—.26

Farmers Nat., .127.87 —.12

First Energy, 1.44, 34.85.30

Fifth/Third, .5219.43—.19

FirstMerit Corp., .64,16.70 .00

First Niles Financial, .32,9.20.00

FNB Corp., .48,11.72.02

General Motors, 1.2030.29—.74

General Electric, .88,24.27—.51

Huntington Bank, .20, 9.45—.10

JP Morgan Chase, 1.60,58.52—.56

Key Corp, .26,12.88—.21

LaFarge, 16.16 —.50

Macy’s, 1.25, 56.68.28

Parker Hannifin, 1.92, 108.98—.55

PNC, 1.92,81.73—.81

RTI Intl. Metals,21.88—.63

Simon Prop. Grp.,5.20,168.43—.23

Stoneridge 10.89 —.02

Talmer Bank, 13.61—.18

United Comm. Fin., .04 4.67—.02

Selected prices at 4 p.m. Friday. Provided by Stifel. Not to be construed as an offer or recommendation to buy or sell any security.