by Calculated Threat on 9/04/2024 05:55:00 PM
Wards Auto launched their estimate of sunshine car gross sales for August: August U.S. Gentle-Car Gross sales Rise 4%, Ending Two Straight Declines (pay web site).
Development was strong in August regardless of the interval’s outcomes equaling a 7-month-low SAAR. Nonetheless, after rising 3.4% year-over-year within the first 5 months of 2024, demand over the three months since then has been practically flat. Calendar-year 2024 gross sales by way of August totaled 10.5 million items, 2.2% above like-2023’s 10.3 million.
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This graph exhibits mild car gross sales since 2006 from the BEA (blue) and Wards’ estimate for Augus (crimson).
Gross sales in August had been beneath the consensus forecast of 15.4 million.
The second graph exhibits mild car gross sales for the reason that BEA began retaining information in 1967. 
