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The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission announced that a section of the toll road would be closed for several hours in between Saturday night and early Sunday morning.

Manufacturing growth in the Philadelphia area slowed in March but costs eased, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia said Thursday.

Plains All American Pipeline, an oil distribution firm, said it has agreed to buy Lone Star Trucking and oil firm Andrews Petroleum for about $205 million, the Associated Press reported.

Railroads are struggling to meet utilities’ increasing demands for coal shipments, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Following a gain in January, U.S. consumer prices rose at a slower pace of 0.1% in February, the Labor Department reported Thursday.

U.S. new housing starts fell 7.9% in February from January, the Commerce Department reported Thursday.

The number of workers filing initial unemployment claims rose by 5,000 last week to 309,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday.

Changes in distribution patterns by shippers are combining with well-known industry issues of high fuel prices, a shortage of drivers, modifications to hours-of-service rules and highway congestion to drive down the average number of miles that a truck hauls a shipment, according to several carriers and shippers.

Western freight railroad Union Pacific Corp. late Tuesday raised its first-quarter earnings projection to a range of $1 to $1.10 per share, from its previous 80- to 90-cent projection.

Imported goods prices fell 0.5% in January, the Labor Department said Thursday. The decline was the same when excluding oil prices, Labor said.