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Logistics and delivery firm Dynamex Inc. reported its third-quarter net income rose 18% to $3.2 million or 29 cents a share, from $2.7 million or 23 cents a year earlier.

Crude oil futures prices fell below $70 a barrel Thursday following news that the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq was killed in a U.S. air raid, Bloomberg reported.

U.S. wholesale inventories rose 0.9% in April, the Commerce Department said Thursday.

The number of Americans filing first-time unemployment claims fell by 35,000 last week to 302,000, the Labor Department said Thursday.

Trucking industry officials said they were encouraged by the discussions at the first meeting of the federal panel charged with examining how to pay for the country’s future surface transportation needs.

International Truck and Engine Corp. and the leadership of the United Auto Workers union said Wednesday they have reached tentative agreement on a new four-year labor contract.

Crude oil, gasoline and distillate inventories all rose last week, the Department of Energy reported Wednesday.

YRC Worldwide boosted its second-quarter earnings guidance Wednesday to a range of $1.53 to $1.58 per share, up from its previous guidance of $1.45 to $1.50.

Air and ocean freight forwarder UTi Worldwide’s fiscal 2007 first-quarter profit fell to $16.6 million or 17 cents a share, from $17.8 million or 18 cents a year ago.

Retail diesel fuel prices this summer are expected to average $2.79 a gallon, 38 cents higher than last year, the Energy Department said.