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Production at U.S. factories, mines and utilities rose 0.4% in May, the Federal Reserve said Wednesday.

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OPEC ministers Wednesday agreed to boost crude oil output levels by 500,000 barrels a day to 28 million, Bloomberg reported.

Manufacturing in New York state rose in June, rebounding from the first contraction in two years, according to a monthly survey by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York released Wednesday.

Business inventories rose 0.3% in April, the Commerce Department said Wednesday.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. img src="http://www.ttnews.com/images/printeditiontag_new.gif" width=120 align=right>HYATTSTOWN, Md. — David Marshall, a driver for J.J. Hunt Trucking, Roanoke Rapids, N.C., shook his head as he was flagged out of the line at a weigh station here on Interstate 270 last week during the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s annual three-day International Roadcheck.

Prices paid by consumers fell 0.1% in May, and the so-called “core” consumer price index, which excludes food and energy, also fell 0.1%, the Labor Department said Wednesday.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. he average retail price of diesel fuel rose 4.2 cents to $2.276 a gallon, the Department of Energy reported Monday.

International Truck and Engine Corp. said Tuesday it will enter into a joint venture with an Indian firm to produce and sell light-, medium- and heavy-duty trucks in that country.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. ail freight volumes have been decelerating in the second quarter with a modestly slowing economy, though rail pricing continues to grow, according to an analyst’s report released Tuesday.