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Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. ffects from the recent hurricanes on oil and gas production are also hurting manufacturers who use those commodities, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.

The number of U.S. workers filing initial unemployment benefits rose 21,000 last week to 390,000, the Labor Department said Thursday.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. rude oil prices fell to their lowest level in two months as demand from U.S. refiners fell, Bloomberg reported Thursday.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. rude oil, gasoline and distillate inventories all dropped last week, the Energy Department reported Wednesday, but market oil and gasoline prices remained stable in intraday trading.

FedEx Corp. Wednesday said that its FedEx Express unit will raise its rates 3.5% starting Jan. 2, 2006.

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Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. n index that measures U.S. services fell in September, the Institute for Supply Management reported Wednesday.

UPS Inc. said Wednesday that its Mail Boxes Etc. subsidiary is expanding its UPS Store brand internationally, starting in Canada and India.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. he number of announced U.S. job cuts in July fell 33% in September from a year earlier, according to an industry report issued Wednesday by job-placement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. wo routes for a new bridge from Detroit into Canada have been eliminated from a list of possibilities, the Detroit Free Press reported Wednesday.