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German truck maker MAN AG sees some synergies from the purchase it wants to make of Sweden’s Scania AB, but a counter-offer for Scania to buy MAN is “unthinkable,” Bloomberg reported Thursday, citing European press reports.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. f American Trucking Associations is so big on safety, why doesn’t it go after everyone — cars, trucks, pickup trucks and foreign cars. Make everyone do no more than 68 mph and this country would cut back on all accidents.

The price of goods imported to the United States rose 0.2% in November after falling more than 2% in the previous two months, the Labor Department said Thursday.

First-time U.S. jobless claims fell by 20,000 last week to 304,000, the Labor Department said Thursday.

A group representing independent truck drivers and motorists in seven states filed a complaint Wednesday against 17 oil companies and gasoline and diesel retailers for overcharging at the pump for fuel heated above the industry standard.

Manufacturing growth slowed in New York state in December, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said Thursday.

OPEC oil ministers said Thursday they will cut production by a half-million barrels a day starting Feb. 1, a 1.9% reduction, Bloomberg reported.

Business inventories rose 0.4% in October, and business sales declined 0.2%, the Commerce Department said Wednesday.

Patriot Transportation Holding late Tuesday reported net income of $2.6 million or 85 cents a share for its fiscal fourth quarter ended Sept. 30, up from $2.2 million or 72 cents in the same quarter a year ago.

U.S. retail sales jumped 1% in November, the Commerce Department said Wednesday.