Boeing has announced a massive equity offering of $19 billion, its largest since 2020, to ease financial strains exacerbated by a seven-week strike by its 33,000 workers, which has cost the company $1 billion a month. The company is using the ploy to stave off the risk of a downgrade of its credit rating to speculative. The industry plan calls for issuing 90 million common shares and $5 billion in...