One last hopeful sign: The Bloomberg U.S. Truckload Trucking Index, consisting of companies like Heartland Express, Knight Transportation and Swift Transportation is up 12% since hitting 52-week lows on reports of rising rates.

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More than 50, 000 individual prices are collected in each survey round, and a cost-of-living index is calculated from the price data to express the difference in the cost of living between any two cities.

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Boeing led Dow components with a 3.4% gain, while American Express was the only member of the 30-stock index to finish in the red after the company said Monday it will fight an antitrust suit from the Department of Justice.

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