WASHINGTON—The Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation’s monthly confidence index was up 3 points in September, reflecting increased optimism despite concerns over companies’ willingness to expand their businesses in the face of economic and political uncertainty.
WASHINGTON—The policies implemented by the federal government to promote electric vehicles will cost $7.5 billion through 2019, according to a new report.
TORONTO—The Canadian Auto Workers union hammered out a tentative agreement with GM Thursday that will keep some 1,750 jobs in Ontario, making Chrysler the final of the Detroit Big Three still at the bargaining table.
DETROIT—A 43-year-old auto worker was stabbed to death by a co-worker Thursday at Chrysler’s Jefferson North Assembly Plant here. The co-worker committed suicide later that day.
WASHINGTON—Rising productivity and falling natural gas prices could help the United States boost exports of products such as locomotives and factory machinery and add as many as 5 million manufacturing jobs by the decade’s end, a new analysis found.
ST. AUGUSTINE, FL—2G Cenergyis, a manufacturer of biogas furnaces and electrical generators, is opening a new assembly plant here. The facility plans to hire 125 people over the next four years.
SAN ANTONIO—The San Antonio Lighthouse for the Blind has received $12.7 million tax credit to build a manufacturing and rehabilitation facility that will provide assembly jobs for the blind and visually impaired.
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