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Marathon executives touted earnings of more than a billion dollars in the second quarter this year and said the oil company is making progress in a proposed merger with a Texas-based refiner.

WASHINGTON — U.S. businesses added 219,000 jobs in July, a private survey found, a robust total that suggests employers still are able to find the workers they need despite the low unemployment rate.

Security experts had long warned the transportation industry was a major target for cyberattacks — then, a bombshell malware incident levied against international ocean shipper A.P. Moller Maersk publicly laid bare what was at stake.

Truckers aren’t the only ones benefiting from strong freight-hauling demand.

The United States and Mexico are in the final stages of negotiating a deal on rules for cars sold under NAFTA, one of the biggest sticking points in discussions to overhaul the North American Free Trade Agreement, according to five people familiar with the talks.

Power management company Eaton Corp. notched a double-digit gain in net income during the second quarter amid its highest quarterly rate of sales growth in nearly seven years.

FRANKFURT, Germany — Europe’s economic upswing slowed further in the second quarter amid concerns over global trade disputes that have seen the world’s major powers impose new tariffs on each other.

In the most far-reaching effort of its kind, engine maker Cummins Inc. announced it will voluntarily recall 500,000 model-year 2010-15 medium- and heavy-duty trucks to replace a defective catalyst in the emissions control system.

Engine maker Cummins Inc. posted record revenue and earnings per share in the second quarter as demand for trucks and construction, mining and power generation equipment all improved.