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Trailer manufacturers and trailer-component suppliers were expected to display their latest products at The Truck Show Las Vegas Thursday through Saturday, along with about 300 other industry suppliers including manufacturers of tires, fuel-saving technology, electrical equipment and brakes.

Commercial Vehicle Group Inc. late Wednesday said it plans to raise $150 million through a private offering of senior notes due 2013.

Crude oil prices closed at a two-month high Thursday on signs global fuel demand could exceed production capacity by OPEC and other exporters, Bloomberg reported.

Manufacturing growth in the Philadelphia area fell this month, moving into negative territory for the first time in two years, the Federal Reserve reported Thursday.

Production at U.S. factories, mines and utilities rose 0.4% in May, the Federal Reserve said Wednesday.

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OPEC ministers Wednesday agreed to boost crude oil output levels by 500,000 barrels a day to 28 million, Bloomberg reported.

Manufacturing in New York state rose in June, rebounding from the first contraction in two years, according to a monthly survey by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York released Wednesday.

Business inventories rose 0.3% in April, the Commerce Department said Wednesday.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. img src="http://www.ttnews.com/images/printeditiontag_new.gif" width=120 align=right>HYATTSTOWN, Md. — David Marshall, a driver for J.J. Hunt Trucking, Roanoke Rapids, N.C., shook his head as he was flagged out of the line at a weigh station here on Interstate 270 last week during the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s annual three-day International Roadcheck.