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Click here to share your thoughts. he massive blackout that affected much of the eastern United States and parts of Canada snarled much of the transportation network and caused many factories to stop production.

The producer price index, which tracks payments to factories, farmers and other producers, rose just 0.1% in July as prices for energy rose slower and food prices declined, the Labor Department reported Thursday..

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Retail sales in the United States rose 1.4% to $317.2 in July, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday, led by purchases of automobiles and clothing.

The Transportation Security Administration has granted American Trucking Associations $100,000 from funds aimed at improving highway security to expand its Highway Watch program and continue developing a proposal for a national communications center to process information from truck drivers about unsafe and suspicious activity on the nation’s highways.

Ohio transportation officials said they were expecting the Federal Highway Administration to decide soon whether to fund a study that could help get heavy trucks back onto the state’s turnpike and off secondary highways.

Inventories at U.S. businesses rose in June for the first time in three months as retailers replenished supplies, the Commerce Department reported..