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Service industries in the U.S. expanded in November at the second-fastest pace in more than nine years, a sign the world’s largest economy is powering past a global slowdown.

Companies in the U.S. added 208,000 workers in November, indicating steady progress in the labor market, a private payrolls report showed.

UTi Worldwide Inc., the U.S. logistics firm whose biggest shareholder is hedge fund P2 Capital Partners, has denied a report by Bloomberg News that it is in advanced talks to sell itself to DSV A/S, the Nordic region’s biggest trucking company.

A former United Parcel Service Inc. driver is pressing what may become the most significant case in decades on the rights of pregnant workers as she asks the U.S. Supreme Court to expand protection for millions of women.

Canada extended an order that requires the country’s two largest railways to ship a minimum amount of grain each week until March 28.

Manufacturing in the U.S. expanded in November at a faster pace than projected, signaling the world’s largest economy is rising above a global slowdown.

Even after doling out discounts on electronics and clothes, retailers struggled to entice shoppers to Black Friday sales events, putting pressure on the industry as it heads into the final weeks of the holiday season.

West Texas Intermediate crude rebounded after sliding to the lowest level since July 2009 on speculation that prices have further to drop before OPEC’s decision to maintain output slows U.S. shale supply.

Consumer confidence climbed to a more than seven-year high in November as Americans’ views of their financial well-being improved heading into the holiday-shopping season.