TransUnion data shows fewer customers behind on repaying auto loans during 4th quarter TransUnion said Monday that customers at least 60 days past due on repaying auto loans fell 6 percent during the fourth quarter compared with the same period a year ...
<div id="subtitle">Meltdown 101: Consumers may slow but housing, investment, government may keep boosting GDP</div><div><p>Can growth in the gross domestic product, the broadest measure of the nation's economy, be sustained?</p><p>That depends on what caused the components of GDP — things ...
<div><p>The United States has emerged from a long and crippling recession, posting its strongest growth in two years in the third quarter as government stimulus spurred consumer spending, official data showed.</p><p>After four negative quarters, the world's largest economy grew at a seasonally ...
A SURPRISING THIRD-QUARTER PICKUP With most of the crucial data needed to estimate third-quarter economic growth now in hand, economists are coming up with a result considerably different from what they expected only a month or two ago. Not only is the ...
<div id="subtitle">Lithia Motors posts $5.7 million profit on lower costs, Clunkers boost</div><div><p>Automotive retailer Lithia Motors Inc. posted a $5.7 million third-quarter profit, citing lower costs and a boost from the government's Cash for Clunkers program.</p><p>But investors ...
<div><p>US consumer spending fell for the first time in five months in September after a government program boosting auto sales ran out, official data showed Friday.</p><p>Personal consumption expenditures decreased 47.2 billion dollars or 0.5 percent last month, as expected by most economists, ...
<div id="subtitle">Earnings roundup: Lower prices hurt Chevron profit, but production up; Cummins net sinks</div><div><p>Among the earnings stories for Friday, Oct. 30, from AP Financial News:</p><p>Chevron said it pumped its way through a weak third quarter, producing more oil as ...
<div id="subtitle">Short-term traders continue to dominate</div><div><p>The Great Recession has ended. Halleluiah! It was the worst recession in many ways since the Great D. Just imagine. After four straight negative quarters the economy recovered in the third quarter. Not only did it recover, ...
<div id="subtitle">AP Enterprise: Pickup-for-pickup swaps most common under 'clunker' rebate program, data show</div><div><p>Billed as a way for the government to put more fuel-efficient vehicles on highways, the popular $3 billion Cash for Clunkers program mostly involved swaps of old Ford or Chevrolet ...
<div id="subtitle">Buy a house, get a check _ House passes $6,500 tax break for homebuyers; Obama to sign Friday</div><div><p>Missed out on Cash for Clunkers? Congress has another deal for you: Buy a home before May 1 and collect up to $6,500 from ...
