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Companies including FedEx Corp. have begun reinstating some employee benefits as the economy has shown signs of improvement, USA Today reported Friday.

U.S. consumer confidence improved in December for the first time in three months, according to the Reuters/University of Michigan monthly consumer sentiment index released Friday.

Business inventories rose in October for the first time in a year, the Commerce Department said Friday.

The price of goods imported to the United States rose 1.7% in November, the most in five month, the Labor Department said Friday.

Retail sales rose 1.3% in November, the Commerce Department said Friday.

Caterpillar Logistics Services said it will open a new parts distribution center in Clayton, Ohio.

In a local newspaper, I recently read an editorial titled: “Truckers Should Not Be Texting While Driving.” The writer improperly quoted statistics and singled out the trucking industry as the problem.

This has been a year when so-called “good news” actually has come in the form of less-bad news, as in “freight levels fell less last month than they did the month before” or “fewer jobs were lost last week than the week before.”