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Oil prices climb as traders eye another U.S. crude drawdown

Oil prices climb as traders eye another U.S. crude drawdown

Oil inched up on Tuesday, lifted by expectations of another crude stockpile drawdown in the United States but price gains were limited amid the reopening of Libya's largest oil field. U.S. crude inventories were expected to have fallen for an eighth straight week and dropped 3.4 million barrels last week, a Reuters poll showed, ahead of weekly data. Libya's Sharara oil field was gradually reopening after its latest shutdown, field workers said.


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Test Drive: Paccar unveils 12-speed automated

Paccar is the latest North American truck manufacturer to bring a proprietary automated transmission to market. Called the Paccar Automated Transmission, it's a 12-speed, twin countershaft design that was conceived as an automated transmission, which is to say, it was designed that way. It's not a manual box fitted with add-on shift-actuators. Paccar says it's the lightest automated transmission currently in production. At just 657 pounds, it is nearly 200 pounds lighter than Eaton's Advantage AMT. ...Read the rest of this story

U.S., North Korea clash at U.N. arms forum on nuclear threat

North Korea and the United States accused each other on Tuesday of posing a nuclear threat, with Pyongyang's envoy declaring it would never put its atomic arsenal up for negotiation. The debate at the United Nations began when the U.S. envoy said President Donald Trump's top priority was to protect the United States and its allies against the "growing threat" from North Korea.


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