New routes for Allegiant

New routes for Allegiant

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Allegiant, the only commercial airliner in operation at the Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport, on Thursday announced new, nonstop service on nine new routes and service to two new cities: Dayton and Flint, Mich.

New routes announced:

Year-round nonstop service to Punta Gorda Airport from Belleville, Ill., and Harrisburg, Pa., seasonal nonstop service to Palm Beach International Airport from Pittsburgh, year-round nonstop service to Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport from Pittsburgh, year-round nonstop service to St. Pete-Clearwater International Airport from Flint, Mich., and Dayton, year-round nonstop service to Orlando Sanford International Airport from Flint, Mich., Dayton and Richmond, Va.

Best Buy profit

MINNEAPOLIS

Best Buy Co. said its fiscal third-quarter adjusted profit rose 21 percent, but its sales growth slowed and executives signaled caution heading into the holiday season in which shoppers are paying less attention to electronic products.

The company’s stock was down 2 percent in trading Thursday.

The company saw higher sales of computers, big appliances, health gadgets and big-screen TVs during the August-to-October period. Those gains helped offset declines in tablets, cellphones and imaging products such as printers.

Stocks slip

NEW YORK

Stocks are slipping as traders were disappointed by several corporate earnings and outlooks.

UnitedHealth Group sank 6 percent Thursday, dragging the health care sector lower, after the nation’s largest health insurer cut its full-year earnings forecast.

Best Buy dropped 2 percent after releasing disappointing sales and a cautious outlook for the holiday shopping season.

The Dow Jones industrial average edged down four points to 17,733.

The Standard & Poor’s 500 lost two points, or 0.1 percent, to 2,081. The Nasdaq composite slipped a point to 5,073.

VW has only a few costly options to fix polluting diesels

DETROIT

When Volkswagen submits a plan to fix emissions-cheating diesel engines today, it will have only two options for most of the cars.

It can install a bigger exhaust system to trap harmful nitrogen oxide, or it can retrofit a chemical treatment process that cuts pollution.

The bigger exhaust likely will hurt performance and gas mileage, angering car owners. But the chemical treatment, while saving acceleration and mileage, needs a clumsy storage tank and multiple hardware changes to work.

In either case, almost a half-million cars would have to be recalled for the repairs.

Experts say both options will be expensive, perhaps so costly that it will be cheaper to buy back some of the older models.

Staff/wire reports

Selected local stocks

STOCK, DIVIDENDCLOSECHANGE

Alcoa Inc., .128.76.35

Aqua America, .71 29.03 .17

Avalon Holdings,2.3199.0399

Cortland Bancorp, .2415.65.05

Farmers Nat., .128.36 .00

First Energy, 1.44 31.21.80

Fifth/Third, .5220.42.06

FirstMerit Corp., .6820.46 .06

First Niles Financial, .208.50.00

FNB Corp., .4814.26—.11

General Motors, 1.4436.14—.32

General Electric, .9230.27—.25

Huntington Bank, .28 11.73.02

iHeartMedia Inc.,1.30 —.05

JP Morgan Chase, 1.7667.66.21

Key Corp, .3013.08—.07

LaFarge, .3417.57 .00

Macy’s, 1.44 38.54—.38

Parker Hannifin, 2.52 103.711.16

PNC, 2.0495.10—.01

Simon Prop. Grp., 6.40191.04.80

Stoneridge 13.49 .07

Talmer Bank, .04 17.81—.19

United Comm. Fin., .10 5.83—.02

Selected prices from Thursday’s 4 p.m. close.