By Unknown Sabtu, 19 Oktober 2013 Auto Dealer consumer efficient market friction OEM Painter Ruggles TrueCar Wards Can “Friction” Be Eliminated in the Buying/Selling Equation? Ruggles in WARDS October 2013 At the recent J. D. Power event held in Las Vegas in October Scott Painter, TrueCar CEO, introduced a new theo...
By Unknown 14.45 cartel embargo energy korin Luft middle east oil OPEC petroleum U.S. The Fundamentals of Global Oil Economics By Gal Luft and Anne Korin The first U.S. energy secretary, James Schlesinger, observed in 1977 that when it comes to energy, the United ...
By Unknown 08.01 BLS Bureau of Labor Statistics business planning business strategy data investment shutdown unemployment Data Check: Should you add inventory or build capacity? One side effect of the government shutdown is a delay in data collection and release. If you're in business, you either track directly d...
By Unknown Kamis, 17 Oktober 2013 alternative fuel vehicles Automotive News Brazil CNG flexfuel vehicles Impala natural gas PACE award SAE society of automotive engineers supplier innovation the greenbrier The PACE of supplier innovation GM just announced that it will begin selling a dual gasoline/CNG (compressed natural gas) version of its Impala – the first Chevy in years (...
By Unknown Jumat, 11 Oktober 2013 China declining profits Ford GM Great Wall Hyundai joint ventures market shares Nissan VW China: all's well ... for now Today VW claimed sales of 2.35 million units in Jan-Sep. Meanwhile GM's PR machine releases brand sales monthly. I track these, out of c...
By Unknown Minggu, 06 Oktober 2013 BEA billion prices project BLS car sales debt ceiling economic data employment government shutdown inflation The Economy and Car Sales Every month I peruse select details of the monthly labor market surveys – the Current Population Survey and the Current Employment Survey – ...
By Unknown Selasa, 01 Oktober 2013 automotive parts Denso fuel cells high tech hybrids Prius seats Toyota Chairman Uchiyamada wire harnesses Automotive Futures: High Tech or High Dreams? In the online NBR Japan Forum (and in a chat with a retired vice miniser of METI – the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry [経済...