America's Truckin' Network -- 12/3/24

Capitol Christmas Tree arrives in Washinton D.C. from Alaska. Leave it to truckers to bring you Christmas cheer. Preliminary Retail sales numbers are coming in from Black Friday and the post-Thanksgiving "Cyber Week," we have the numbers; what does this tell us? Are the numbers up or down? Are there any hints of an increasing economy and/or an end to the trucking recession? Oil reacts to optimism around strong factory activity in China, offset by concerns that the Federal Reserve will not cut interest rates when they meet later this month, OPEC+'s decision to postpone their meeting until Dec. 5th to determine whether to delay a planned oil output increase, a shaky Lebanon-Israel ceasefire and a possible coup in Syria.