Norfolk Southern Corp. said its first-quarter earnings will be 3% lower than a year earlier, as its freight shipments declined.
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March Payrolls Rise 180,000; Unemployment Dips to 4.4%
U.S. payrolls rose by 180,000 jobs in March and the unemployment rate dipped to 4.4% from 4.5%, the Labor Department said Friday.
April 6, 2007Crude Prices Fall Following Sailors’ Release by Iran
Crude oil futures fell lower Thursday after Iran released 15 British sailors it had held for two weeks, Bloomberg reported.
April 5, 2007Jobless Claims Rise for Week
Initial jobless claims rose by 11,000 last week, the Labor Department said Thursday.
April 5, 2007Ship Line Trans Ocean Sold
Britain-based shipping line Ocean Distribution said it closed its sale to JF Hillebrand Group, for an undisclosed sum.
April 6, 2007Intermodal Volume Declines
Rail and intermodal traffic continued a downward trend of the past few weeks, with intermodal falling 2.5% last week and rail carload traffic declining 8.7% compared with a year ago, the Association of American Railroads said Thursday.
April 5, 2007Bush Threatens to Veto Bill Delaying Border Opening
Congress and the Bush administration clashed last week over a proposal to allow Mexican trucks into the United States in a year-long pilot project, with the Senate passing a series of restrictions to the plan and a pair of bills being introduced in the House aimed at stopping it.
April 3, 2007Crude Prices Ease After Iran Says It Will Release British Sailors
Crude oil futures prices declined Wednesday after Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that he will release 15 captured British sailors, news services reported.
April 4, 2007Daimler in Talks to Sell Chrysler Unit
DaimlerChrysler AG chief Dieter Zetsche said for the first time that the company is negotiating the sale of its Chrysler unit, Bloomberg reported Wednesday.
April 4, 2007ISM Services Index Declines in March
The Institute for Supply Management's services index slipped to 52.4 in March from February’s reading of 54.3, ISM said Wednesday.
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