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The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has begun enforcing its New Entrant Safety Assurance Process rule, requiring stricter safety standards for newly registered truck and bus companies.

Manufacturing levels in the Philadelphia expanded at the fastest pace in more than four and a half years, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia said Thursday.

An index of leading economic indicators improved for an eighth straight month in November, the New York-based Conference Board said Thursday.

Initial jobless claims rose last week, the Labor Department reported Thursday.

The Federal Reserve voted for the ninth straight time Wednesday to keep a key U.S. interest rate at a record low “target range” of zero to 0.25%.

The consumer price index rose 0.4% in November, the Labor Department said Wednesday.

Cummins Inc. said late Tuesday that Jim Kelly, president of its engine business, will leave the position in March and that it will name a successor “in the very near future.”

WASHINGTON — Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said the department was working to complete its work on a regulation to ban texting by commercial drivers, and that it would be finished “sooner rather than later.”