Boeing to Add Up to 5,000 U.S. Jobs

Boeing Co. plans to hire 4,000 to 5,000 workers next year at its commercial hubs in Seattle and South Carolina as exports drive growth.

Business executives encouraged U.S. President Barack Obama in a meeting today to sign more bilateral trade agreements with countries including China and India, McNerney said in an interview with Bloomberg Television.

Obama is committed to agreements with South Korea, Panama and Colombia, and “there was a sense in the room that Korea is the beginning, not the end,” McNerney said of today’s meeting. The group agreed to “move beyond the rhetoric” of whether the Obama administration was anti-business or not, he said.

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