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Crude oil prices fell for a third straight day following a Department of Energy report Wednesday showing that distillate fuel inventories, which include diesel, rose last week.

Engine and heavy-equipment maker Caterpillar Inc. said Wednesday it would split its stock 2-for-1 and boost its quarterly dividend by 9 cents, following record sales last year.

91ÊÓƵland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced that Kenneth Kasprisin will serve as acting administrator of the Transportation Security Administration and Tom Blank will serve as TSA’s acting deputy administrator effective immediately.

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Wholesale inventories increased 0.8% to $350 billion in April, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday.

Ryder System Inc. said it won a contract from the New York Post to support distribution of the newspaper to the New York metropolitan area.

Less-than-truckload shippers had mixed reactions to the news that parcel giant UPS Inc. would enter the LTL market with its proposed purchase of Overnite Transportation.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is the safest U.S. city to drive in, according to a new insurance study, the Associated Press reported. Sioux Falls, S.D., ranks second.

Average retail diesel prices are expected to remain above regular gasoline prices through 2006, the Department of Energy said in its monthly Short-Term Energy Outlook released Tuesday.

General Motors Corp. plans to cut 25,000 manufacturing jobs between now and 2008, GM's chief executive officer Rick Wagoner said Tuesday.