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December 8, 2025

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CRST Posting Gains in Tough Market, CEO Says

While the protracted freight market slump has yet to turn around, CRST’s dedicated truckload business is having its best year in three years, CEO Mike Gannon says. Read more…

TODAY’S NEWS

BUSINESS

China Trade Surplus Booms to $1T Despite US Export Drop-Off

While China’s shipments to the U.S. plummeted 29% in November, strong growth in sales to regions like the European Union and Africa more than offset the slump. Read more…

BUSINESS

First Brands Flails as Customers Don’t Know Who to Pay

First Brands is asking the judge overseeing its bankruptcy to set up a framework that will give comfort to clients that they can send money to the company without risk of double payment. Read more…

GOVERNMENT

US Says China Is Meeting Trade Commitments

Bloomberg previously reported that after a series of orders placed in late October — the first of this season — China’s purchases of American soybeans appeared to have stalled. Read more…

THIS WEEK’S CARTOON: "Those Cyber Monday Deals Are Hard to Resist"

GOVERNMENT

Trump Unveils $12 Billion Aid for Farmers

The aid comes amid rising frustration among farmers on the slow pace of Chinese purchases, which Beijing clamped down on earlier this year in retaliation for Trump’s tariff barrage. Read more…

FUEL

NEVI Funds Available Again for EV Charging Networks

Dollars from the $5 billion infrastructure program that Joe Biden’s White House crafted to speed EV adoption are flowing again after the Trump administration froze the funds earlier this year. Read more…

GOVERNMENT

US, India Work to Mend Ties After Tariff Rift

India-U.S. relations have also soured because of Trump’s assertions he brokered a ceasefire between India and Pakistan during the conflict in May and used trade as a bargaining chip. Read more…

FUEL

New Platts Policy Excludes Russian-Origin Fuel

The step by Platts, a unit of S&P Global Energy, effectively eliminates one source of supply that might be cheaper than others. The move will align with European Union rules. Read more…

TECHNOLOGY

6 Nations Challenge EU’s Combustion Car Deadline

“We can and we must pursue our climatic goal in an effective way, while not killing our competitiveness in the meanwhile since there is nothing green in an industrial desert,” EU leaders said. Read more…

EDITOR’S PICK

Top 50 Global Freight Companies Persevere Amid Trade Shift

The world’s largest transportation and logistics providers have been operating in a highly volatile business environment this year as tariffs and shifting trade policies have altered international freight flows. Read more…

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