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Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. anufacturing growth in New York state declined this month as costs rose, according to a monthly survey by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York released Thursday.

Hurricane Ophelia weakened slightly as it moved along the North Carolina coast Thursday, and early indications were that the storm was not causing the severe flooding many feared, the Associated Press reported.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. rices paid by consumers rose 0.5% in August, while the so-called "core" consumer price index, which excludes food and energy, rose 0.1%, the Labor Department reported Thursday.

The number of U.S. workers filing initial unemployment benefits jumped by 71,000 last week in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the biggest jump in more than nine years.

Business inventories fell 0.5% in July, the Commerce Department said Thursday.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. img src="http://www.ttnews.com/images/printeditiontag_new.gif" width=120 align=right>An economy that was showing signs of flattening even before Hurricane Katrina bludgeoned the Gulf Coast will now have to battle even harder to regain its footing as high energy costs threaten the businesses of shippers and their trucking providers.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. PEC, whose members pump more than a third of the world's oil, lowered its forecast for growth in world oil demand for a fifth consecutive month, citing lower predicted demand in the United States and China, Bloomberg reported.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. rude oil and distillate fuel inventories fell last week but gasoline supplies rose, the Department of Energy said in its weekly inventory report issued Wednesday.

Yellow Roadway Corp. said Wednesday that its board approved a stock repurchase program that authorizes the company to repurchase up to $50 million of its common stock.

American Trucking Associations President Bill Graves on Tuesday named Timothy Lynch to the new position of senior vice president, federation relations and strategic planning.