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U.S. factory orders rose in April for the second time in three months, the Commerce Department said Wednesday.

The U.S. economy’s service sector improved last month with its highest reading in seven months but still showed contraction, the Institute for Supply Management said Wednesday.

DHL said it will provide international express shipments to and from the United States under an agreement with biotech company Beckman Coulter.

Oil held steady near a seven-month high Tuesday, closing the trading day at $68.55 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, 3 cents below Monday’s closing price, Bloomberg reported.

California has set up a loan program for truckers to meet looming stricter emissions requirements next year, but some carriers say the industry is in such a difficult state that they may not last long enough to get the loans, the Santa Cruz (Calif.) Sentinel reported Tuesday.

A bill that would have added 7 cents to Nevada’s 27.75-cent diesel tax for all vehicles except school buses has died in the state’s Senate.

Onboard scale manufacturer Air-Weigh said that Kalyn Siebert, a subsidiary of Heil Trailer International, has made the Air-Weigh’s trailer scales standard on its heavy-haul trailers.

A rule requiring U.S. residents to show a passport or other high-tech document to re-enter the country from Canada or Mexico took effect Monday, the Associated Press reported.