Patrick Temple-West

The South Carolina Transportation Infrastructure Bank expects to competitively sell today $93.6 million of revenue bonds to refund debt issued between 1998 and 2000.

Inventories at the wholesale level fell 1.4% in July as sales increased 0.5%, the largest rise since June 2008, the Commerce Department reported Friday.

Import prices rose 2.0% in August, increasing for the fifth time in six months, led primarily by an increase in fuel prices, the Labor Department reported Friday.

WASHINGTON – Industrial production rose 0.8% in August, in line with economists’ estimates, though production was down 10.7% from a year ago, the Federal Reserve reported today.

WASHINGTON - The consumer price index rose 0.4% in August, driven by higher gasoline prices, the Labor Department reported today.

Business inventories fell 1.0% in July, the 12th straight monthly decline, as sales rose 0.1%, the Commerce Department reported yesterday. The June decline in was revised to a 1.4% drop from a 1.1% decline.

The producer price index for finished goods rose 1.7% in August on a seasonally adjusted monthly basis, more than double the median estimate, as energy prices jumped, the Labor Department reported yesterday.