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WASHINGTON — The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration remains “absolutely” committed to the current timeline for rolling out CSA 2010, Administrator Anne Ferro said.

Detroit Diesel Corp. said it will spend $194 million to renovate its 72-year-old Redford, Mich., plant, the latest example of truck makers pouring investments into diesel engine facilities to manufacture the complicated new power plants and vertically integrate production.

Retail diesel prices reversed course last week, as the national average rose 3.3 cents a gallon to $2.961 after falling 19.9 cents in the five previous weeks, the Department of Energy reported.

YRC Worldwide said Friday it has entered into an agreement to sell a portion of its YRC Logistics business to a private equity firm for $37 million.

FedEx Ground, the small-package ground unit of FedEx Corp., is building a package sorting and delivery station that would be the company’s fifth in the Chicago area.

Consumer confidence rose this month to the highest level in more than two years, according to the latest Reuters/University of Michigan monthly consumer sentiment index released Friday.

Durable goods orders fell for the first time in six months but rose 0.9% excluding transportation orders, marking the third such gain in four months, the Commerce Department said Thursday.

Initial jobless claims fell from a two-month high, declining 19,000 last week, the Labor Department said Thursday.