The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen on Thursday morning include Alcoa, Deere, Ford, GM, McDonald's, Wells Fargo, BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto.
Automakers are set to release their U.S. sales data for November, and it's impossible to find an analyst who doesn't think that reported sales will set an all-time record for the month.
New car sales in the United States are forecast to reach a November record of 1.37 million units this year. The current record is 1.32 million units set in November 2001. If…
November U.S. car and light truck sales should dampen anxiety that the industry has peaked. New 2017 models have reached dealers after all. And interest rates are low enough to continue the…
Douglas A. McIntyre Monday brought on a trifecta for investors as the Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq all three hit all-time highs. Post-election fever just keeps on going. Still, stocks were only moderately higher on…
Analysts at WardsAuto expect November sales of cars and light trucks to reach 1.367 million units, up from 1.323 million units in November of 2015 thanks to 2 extra selling days this…
New car registrations in the European Union for the month of October totaled a little over a million units, essentially flat with October of last year.
These vehicles are considered the cream of the crop by top Kelley Blue Book analysts across a few categories. The 2017 Honda Civic took first place as the Best Buy of 2017.
Sales of light trucks rose more than 7% in October and accounted for almost two-thirds of all vehicle sales in the United States.
Ford has maintained its customary lead in pickup truck sales. For the first 10 months of 2016, F-Series pickup sales are up 5% year over year.
Fiat sales dropped 24% last month to around 2,600. Is that too little to keep the brand alive in the United States?
Douglas A. McIntyre One month after a surprise shift in the second- and third-place ranking of pickup truck sales, the Chevy Silverado has recaptured the unit sales lead in October from Fiat Chrysler's Ram pickups.
Year over year, sales plunged 10% at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles in October, including a 7% drop in Jeep brand sales.
Paul Ausick Automakers are scheduled to report U.S. October sales Tuesday morning, except for Ford, which postponed its report as a result of a fire in the company's headquarters building in Detroit.
Fiat Chrysler will discontinue the down-market Chrysler 200 series cars. And to help push inventory out the door it will end the car's run with 0% APR financing for 84 months.
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