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The consumer price index fell for the first time in more than a year, declining 0.1% in April, the Labor Department said Wednesday.

Oil prices continued to fall Wednesday, dropping under $68 a barrel a day after closing below $70 for the first time in eight months, Bloomberg reported.

Prices paid to U.S. producers increased 0.1% in April, the Labor Department said Tuesday.

Housing starts rose in April to the highest level in a year and a half, the Commerce Department said Tuesday.

Trailer Bridge Inc. lost $308,000, or 3 cents a share, in the first quarter, compared with a loss of $768,000, or 6 cents, a year ago.

The ongoing dispute between the U.S. and Mexico over cross-border trucking is expected to be on the agenda when leaders of the two countries meet Wednesday in Washington.

The Canadian Trucking Alliance is asking that its federal government abandon a plan to adopt a 2% biodiesel mandate for all diesel fuel sold in the country.

For the first time since its founding nearly a century ago, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is seeking private investors to help it replace one of its facilities  — the aged Goethals Bridge that connects the New Jersey Turnpike to Staten Island and other points in New York.

Manufacturing activity in the New York region rose for the 10th consecutive month in May but expanded at a slower rate than April, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said Monday.