Energy: SUV Sales a Bright Spot in the U.S. Auto Market
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2017
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Auto sales have declined 2% this year after sales broke records in 2016, leading many commentators to speculate whether the U.S. has reached peak auto. However, one area of the market – SUV’s, light trucks, and crossovers – continues to demonstrate growth.
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| 0:10.4 | Welcome to Industry Focus, the show that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day. |
| 0:17.0 | Today we're talking energy and industrials. |
| 0:20.0 | It's Thursday 21st of September, and we're going to be discussing the U.S. |
| 0:24.1 | Auto Market. |
| 0:25.1 | Joining me on Skype is Motley Fall Contributor and Senior Auto Specialist John Roosevelt. |
| 0:30.0 | Hi, John. |
| 0:31.0 | Good morning. |
| 0:32.0 | Good morning. Thank you. Good afternoon, listeners. |
| 0:34.4 | Thank you very much for joining me today. How's your how's your morning gone so far? |
| 0:37.7 | Oh, so far so good. Yeah, it's just watching all the news emerge on electric cars and so forth. |
| 0:45.0 | That's the big thing right now. |
| 0:46.0 | So that'll be another show. |
| 0:48.0 | AMD, right? |
| 0:49.9 | Is taking Navidia's breakfast? |
| 0:55.0 | Well, I don't know if any... I've just read the headlines. |
| 0:58.0 | That's a much longer story that I think we have time for. |
| 1:01.0 | Yeah, the question, yeah, there's a longer story there as to Tesla's |
| 1:06.4 | relationships with some of its key suppliers and what exactly happened there, |
| 1:09.9 | but we'll talk about that. I'm sure we will. |
| 1:13.0 | It just shows you how misleading headlines are and how informed I am. |
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