By Ben Berkowitz | BOSTON (Reuters) - The death of Micron Chief Executive Steve Appleton in the crash of an experimental plane is raising fresh questions about what a company should disclose to investors when a senior executive has a high-risk hobby.

NEW YORK, NY, Feb 06, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Airline stocks have been on fire this year. The Guggenheim Airline ETF, which seeks to represent a modified equal-dollar weighted index designed to measure the performance of highly capitalized and ...

Enlarge image American Airlines American Airlines Scott Eells/Bloomberg American Airlines Inc. planes at LaGuardia airport in New York.

US stocks traded higher Friday as the Dow Jones Industrial Average recently climbed 1.3% to 12864, the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index rose 1.3% to 1343, and the Nasdaq Composite index added 1.5% to 2901.

US Airways Group Inc. reports a 6.1 percent increase in passenger traffic last month to nearly 4.9 million boardings from 4.6 million in January 2011.

(RTTNews.com) - US Airways Group, Inc. (LCC) Friday reported increases in traffic, capacity and load factor for the month of January, helped by improve dperformance at the mainline segment.

Equities research analysts at Barclays Capital (NYSE: BCS) boosted their price target on shares of US Airways Group (NYSE: LCC) from $10.00 to $12.00 in a research note issued to investors on Thursday.

There's continued talk in investment and airline circles regarding mergers and consolidations involving Tempe, Ariz.-based US Airways Group Inc. (NYSE: LCC), according to a Barron's report.

Despite a strong turnaround in 2010, fortunes of air carriers in the US seem to be dwindling once again this year, owing to the prevailing market turmoil and surging fuel prices.

Jan. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Shares of the following companies may have unusual moves in US trading. Stock symbols are in parentheses, and prices are as of 8:45 am in New York.