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The University of Michigan said Friday its preliminary July sentiment index rose to 90.3 from 89.7 last month, the third increase in the past four months.

The Transportation Security Administration said it was considering requests to delay criminal background checks for 3.5 million hazardous material drivers, while still working on guidelines for states and industry to meet.

Manufacturing in the Philadelphia region expanded in July for a second month as increasing spending and consumer confidence boosted production, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia reported Thursday.

The Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research said Thursday that the recession the United States entered into in March 2001 ended in November of that same year.

U.S. housing starts rose 3.7% in June to the highest level since January, as low mortgage rates stoked demand, the Commerce Department reported Thursday.

The number of fatalities from truck-involved crashes declined 4.2% to 4,897 in 2002, from 5,111 the previous year, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

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The Teamsters union said late Tuesday that the truckers who haul most new cars and other vehicles in the United States had ratified a new five-year contract.

Industrial production in the United States rose 0.1% in June as factories produced more consumer goods and vehicles, the Federal Reserve reported Wednesday.

Businesses in the United States trimmed their stocks of unsold goods in May for the first time in more than a year, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday..