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The University of Michigan index of consumer sentiment dropped to 95.5 for January from 97.1 in December, Bloomberg reported.

Employers added 146,000 workers to payrolls in January and the nation’s unemployment rate dropped to 5.2%, the lowest since Sept. 2001, the Labor Department reported Friday.

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Ryder Reports Increased Fourth-Quarter Earnings • Rail Traffic Rises, Stemming Two-Week Decline • Air Cargo Shipments Rise 11.4% in December • Senate Panel Approves Class-Action Lawsuit Bill • And more...

American Trucking Associations’ decision to reestablish its Intermodal Motor Carriers Conference prompted RoadLink USA — which ATA considers the nation’s largest intermodal trucking network — to join the association Jan. 24, a company official said.

Orders placed with factories rose 0.3% in December, the Commerce Department reported Thursday.

The Institute for Supply Management said Thursday that its service economy index fell to 59.2 in January, from a seasonally adjusted 63.9 in December.

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The Federal Reserve on Wednesday unanimously raised the benchmark U.S. interest rate a quarter-point to 2.5%, the highest since October 2001, and again said it would carry out additional increases at a "measured" pace.

Volvo Trucks North America Inc. announced the company and the United Auto Workers reached a tentative agreement on terms of new three-year agreements that would cover approximately 2,800 UAW members at the New River Valley, Va., plant.