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The Labor Department said Friday that U.S. companies added a total of 288,000 workers to payrolls in April, including 21,000 manufacturing positions, the most in that sector since July 2000.

Crude oil futures briefly rose above $40 a barrel on Friday in New York for the first time since the Persian Gulf War in 1990, while a senior OPEC official said the oil cartel would hold an informal meeting to discuss what can be done to lower oil prices, Bloomberg reported.

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As protesting truck drivers again disrupted the flow of cargo at the Port of Oakland, Calif., on Thursday, independent truckers in Virginia began a two-day boycott at the Hampton Roads port, one of the busiest cargo ports on the East Coast, news services reported.

Package carriers based in the United States said they were ready for the European Union’s expansion this month to 25 nations and predicted it would add to profits over the next several years.

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The number of Americans filing initial claims for jobless benefits dropped by 25,000 to 315,000 last week, the fewest since October 2000, the Labor Department said Thursday.

An Arkansas trucking company could be liable for back taxes after Federal Tax Court ruled April 28 that the company could not deduct per diem payments to drivers based on mileage rather than days on the road without substantiation of actual expenses.