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TOKYO — Osamu Suzuki, the charismatic former boss of Suzuki Motor Corp. who helped turn the Japanese mini-vehicle maker into a globally competitive company, has died at 94.

Sales rose this year during the holiday shopping season even as Americans wrestled with elevated prices for many groceries and other necessities, according to new data.

U.S. diesel prices dipped this week, reflecting a national average decline of 1.8 cents per gallon to $3.476, according to the Energy Information Administration’s Dec. 23 report.

OpenStore, which manages more than 100,000 stock-keeping units and serves more than 2 million customers, plans to launch operations at the 113,000-square-foot facility in March 2025.

The trucking industry is expected to slowly improve next year even as market headwinds and uncertainty leave many unknowns heading into 2025.

South Louisiana Community College is partnering with a state agency and the governor’s office to launch a CDL training program to open truck driving career paths for Black men.

Wall Street analysts offered overall positive initial reactions to the Dec. 19 news that FedEx Corp. plans to by 2026 spin off its LTL division into a separate, publicly traded company.

New York’s controversial congestion pricing project cleared a pair of hurdles as two federal judges declined to put the traffic plan on hold just weeks before it is scheduled to begin.

The Port of Long Beach achieved its busiest November ever by increasing to 884,154 containers from 731,033 last year. This surpasses the previous record for the month set in November 2020.