Canadian police are investigating an overpass strike that occurred on Highway 99 on Wednesday. According to BC Highway Patrol, the overpass strike was reported on March 19, 2025 at 9:45 a.m.Officials say that a commercial tractor-trailer carrying a prefabricated home was southbound on Highway 99 when it struck the the Blundell Road overpass in Richmond, ...more
Oil CEOs Meet With Trump as US Unwinds Environmental Rules
The Phillips 66 Los Angeles refinery in Wilmington, Calif. (Bing Guan/Bloomberg) The chief executives of more than a dozen oil companies will deliver a message of gratitude — as well as caution — when they meet with President Donald Trump on March 19. Industry leaders say they have plenty of reasons to give thanks. Trump ...more
Trump Approves LNG Exports From Venture Global’s CP2 Project
Venture Global's CP2 project in Cameron Parish, Louisiana. (Venture Global LNG Inc.) President Donald Trump’s administration has granted Venture Global LNG Inc. conditional approval to export natural gas from a planned facility in Louisiana that had stalled under former President Joe Biden. Energy Secretary Chris Wright authorized the exports from the company’s CP2 project on ...more
February Medium-Duty Sales Decline 16.8% Year Over Year
A lineup of Freightliner em2 trucks. Freightliner, a brand of Daimler Truck North America, sold the most Class 7 trucks at 1,737 units. (Daimler Truck North America) U.S. retail sales of medium-duty trucks continued to trend below year-ago comparisons in February after a short-lived uptick the prior month, according to data from Wards Intelligence. Classes ...more
Tariff Threats Spur TSMC’s Taiwan Peers to Seek US Expansion
TSMC’s fabrication plant in Phoenix. (Rebecca Noble/Bloomberg) President Donald Trump and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.’s C.C. Wei walked into the Roosevelt Room of the White House this month to unveil one of the largest foreign investments in US history: a $100 billion bet that high-end chips can be made, once again, in the U.S. For ...more
Volkswagen Raises $393M in Sale of Traton Truck Unit Stake
The Volkswagen headquarters and auto plant in Wolfsburg, Germany. (Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg News) Volkswagen AG raised about 360 million euros ($393 million) through the sale of a 2.2% stake in Traton SE. The German carmaker offered around 11 million shares in its truck unit through an overnight placement, in a bid to enhance liquidity in the ...more
Shipping Group Says Trump Port Fee Plan Will Hurt Economy
A ship under construction in Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, China. (Meng Delong/VCG/Getty Images) A plan by the Trump administration to introduce fees on the use of Chinese commercial ships is likely to damage the U.S. economy and may fail to reverse China’s shipbuilding dominance, a top shipping trade group said. The Office of the U.S. Trade ...more
Biden’s Energy Department Suppressed LNG Study, GOP Says
A cargo ship passes the Cheniere Energy liquefied natural gas plant in Port Arthur, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images) When the Biden administration stopped approving licenses to export U.S. liquefied natural gas in January of last year, officials said they first needed to determine how those shipments would affect the environment and economy. But the federal ...more
Stellantis’ Elkann: Auto Industry Doesn’t Need Defense Ties
Elkann is focusing on ways to bolster Italian car production after a dramatic slump in local output last year. (Giuliano Berti/Bloomberg News) Stellantis NV Chairman John Elkann says Europe’s auto manufacturers don’t need the defense industry to survive, after some governments called on carmakers to contribute to a defense push. “China and the U.S. have ...more
Fed Stays the Course on Rates as Inflation Risks Grow
Fed officials have kept rates steady this year after cutting them by a percentage point in the closing months of 2024. (Erin Scott/Bloomberg News) Federal Reserve officials held their benchmark interest rate steady for a second straight meeting, though they telegraphed expectations for slower economic growth and higher inflation. The Federal Open Market Committee voted ...more