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Applications for U.S. unemployment benefits rose more than forecast last week, representing a pause from a recent run of readings close to a 14-year low.

BNSF Railway Co., the carrier owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc., is blocking some shippers from adding tank cars to its system in a bid to prevent a worsening of the gridlock that sparked regulators’ ire.

The average price of regular gasoline at U.S. pumps dropped 13.38 cents to $2.942 a gallon in the two weeks ended Nov. 7, falling below $3 for the first time in almost four years, Lundberg Survey said.

Surging railroad tank-car orders at companies owned by billionaires Warren Buffett and Carl Icahn are defying an oil price drop that threatens to slow the U.S. drilling boom.

The productivity of U.S. workers rose more than projected in the third quarter, helping to contain labor costs even as employment picks up.

Fewer Americans than forecast filed applications for unemployment benefits last week, a sign persistent demand is fueling gains in the labor market.

Service industries in the U.S. sustained a faster pace of expansion in October than in the first half of the year, indicating the world’s largest economy is overcoming a global slowdown.

The trade deficit in the U.S. widened in September as exports cooled from a record, highlighting how weakening global growth will affect the world’s largest economy.

U.S. manufacturing activity rose in October, matching August as the highest level since March 2011, the Institute for Supply Management reported Nov. 3.

Governor Andrew Cuomo’s plan to make New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport more passenger-friendly by cutting out most cargo facilities risks backfiring, a shipping-industry group and analysts say.