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U.S. retail fuel prices snapped a steady string of declines last week, as the average cost of a gallon of diesel rose 1.8 cents to $2.60 a gallon, and gasoline climbed 2.1 cents to $2.489.

FedEx Express said that it has completed expansion projects at its European hub at Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport and a warehouse at Guadalajara International Airport in Jalisco, Mexico.

U.S. consumer confidence declined this month, according to the preliminary Reuters/University of Michigan monthly consumer sentiment index released Friday.

A story on TTNews.com Wednesday incorrectly stated that Canadian trucking firm Bruce R. Smith Ltd. was in “bankruptcy.”

I applaud Bill Graves, president of American Trucking Associations, for trying to get the Obama administration to make highway infrastructure rebuilding the No. 1 priority.

There was further evidence last week of the growing link between fuel prices and Wall Street, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose above 10,000 for the first time in a year, and the price of crude oil exceeded $75 a barrel for the first time since September 2008.

Towne Air Freight said it has extended into 2012 its agreement with Lufthansa Cargo in which Towne Air Freight will manage all road feeder services for Lufthansa within the United States and Canada.

Manufacturing levels in the Philadelphia expanded at a slower pace in October than in September, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia said Thursday.

Manufacturing activity in the New York region rose for a third straight month in October, reaching the highest level in more than five years, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said Thursday.