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Business inventories rose 0.8% in July, the biggest increase in six months, the Commerce Department said Friday.

Consumer confidence rose in September, according to the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan consumer sentiment index released Friday.

Industrial production declined by 1.2% in August, the biggest drop since March 2009, the Federal Reserve said Friday.

Werner Enterprises said its third-quarter earnings will be between $24.2 million and $26.4 million, lagging behind estimates.

Retail sales increased 0.9% in August, the Commerce Department said Friday.

The consumer price index rose in August 0.6%, the most since June 2009, the Labor Department said Friday.

Alabama needs more name-brand truck stops. I’m an Alabama native who is an over-the-road truck driver living in Northern Virginia. I get a chance on a regular basis to compare trucking facilities and the economic effect they have on communities from state to state.

Where warehouse dockworkers once had to go to a supervisor’s window for their assignments, advanced software has eliminated this and other long-standing procedures — turning the process of managing distribution centers into a faster, better-coordinated system, users and vendors said.

In a brazen display of recklessness, and with utter disregard for the safety implications of its decision, Texas has decided to let its private “partner” on a section of State Highway 130, also called Pickle Parkway, post an 85-mile-per-hour speed limit, the highest in the country, when it opens.