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Six international freight forwarders have agreed to plead guilty and pay $50.3 million in fines in relation to a price-fixing investigation, federal officials said.

Surface transportation trade among the United States, Canada and Mexico rose 18.8% in July from a year earlier, the Department of Transportation said.

Manufacturing activity in the Chicago region jumped in September, the Institute for Supply Chain Management-Chicago said Thursday.

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CSX Corp. said it would raise its quarterly dividend 8% to 26 cents per share, from the previous 24 cents.

The U.S. gross domestic product rose at a revised 1.7% annual rate in the second quarter, up slightly from the previously estimated 1.6%, the Commerce Department said Thursday.

YRC Worldwide’s board and the Teamsters union’s leadership have each approved an agreement extending current pay cuts through 2015 and delaying YRC’s resumption of pension contributions until June.

Initial jobless claims fell by 16,000 last week to 453,000, the Labor Department said Thursday.