This Week’s Market Buzz

•    West Texas Intermediate crude for November delivery 98 cents, or 1.8%, to settle at $52.64 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. December Brent, the global benchmark, declined by $1.20, or 2%, to $57.69 a barrel on ICE Futures Europe. Both crude benchmarks marked the lowest front-month contract settlements since Aug. 8, according to FactSet data.

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Report Cites Need to Improve Infrastructure for Freight Transport

The ability of the nation’s freight transportation system to efficiently and safely accommodate the growing demand for freight movement could be hampered by inadequate transportation capacity, institutional barriers to enhancing the nation’s freight facilities, a lack of adequate funding for needed improvements to the freight network and a shortage of drivers, according to a new report released by TRIP, a…

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Force Control Celebrates 50 Years

Force Control Industries is celebrating 50 years of manufacturing long-lasting oil shear clutches, brakes and clutch brakes. Although industries and applications have come and gone in the five decades that the company has been in business, they continue to develop new uses for their unique oil shear technology. All Force Control products are manufactured in their Fairfield, Ohio (suburban Cincinnati)…

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