The producer price index rose 6.5% from October 2025, and the report showed another jump in transportation and warehousing costs.

The U.S. Coast Guard said the cargo vessel is currently moored at a Kinder Morgan facility in Bristol, Pa., where an inspection team is on site.

Brent crude, the international standard, was up 0.2% at $96.04 a barrel on Nov. 13. It was trading near $72 per barrel in late February before the Iran war began.

The U.S. budget gap widened to $404 billion in October, up 42% from the same period a year earlier, Treasury Department data showed Nov. 12.

The U.S. Postal Service is moving to raise and make permanent its fuel surcharge, which the agency introduced for the first time earlier this year. 

It's getting late into 2026, and truck manufacturers still don't know what the price and total cost of ownership for model-year 2027 trucks will be on Jan. 1.

Combined imports at the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach came in at 1,000,500 TEUs in October, just off September’s all-time high.

Despite efforts to find a buyer, none has so far emerged publicly, and oil traders and analysts are growing increasingly skeptical that any of the four vessels Russia says are carrying diesel will unload in the U.S. 

Freight rates strengthened in the third quarter as capacity constraints and rising costs gave the trucking industry greater pricing power despite soft demand.

Brent crude, the international standard, rose 0.6% to $93.34 a barrel. Prices had eased earlier on signs of resurgent oil supplies from Saudi Arabia.