by Calculated Threat on 1/24/2025 02:11:00 PM
From WardsAuto: Some Letdown however January U.S. Gentle-Car Gross sales Proceed This autumn-2024’s Development (pay content material). Temporary excerpt:
Whereas demand in the course of the month was negatively impacted by excessive climate circumstances throughout a lot of the nation, with every week remaining in January there’s upside to the outlook. On the flipside, there may very well be pause amongst some shoppers, as they wait to see how the obvious revamping of federal insurance policies and establishments by the brand new administration performs out. Regardless, gross sales are monitoring to their fourth straight enhance in January.
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This graph exhibits precise gross sales from the BEA (Blue), and Wards forecast for January (Purple).
On a seasonally adjusted annual fee foundation, the Wards forecast of 15.6 million SAAR, could be down 7.1% from final month, and up 3.8% from a yr in the past.