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Speaker 1: You're listening to Taking Stock with Kathleen Hayes and Pox

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Speaker 1: on Bloomberg Radio. Can in the U s consumer keep

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Speaker 1: driving US economy forward? It's just one of the questions

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Speaker 1: we asked today. As we say that most of the

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Speaker 1: big US automakers reported light vehicle sales last month the

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Speaker 1: trailed analysts estimates in July. It reinforced concerns the market

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Speaker 1: for cars may have peaked with last year's record deliveries.

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Speaker 1: So do the auto makers the auto sellers have to

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Speaker 1: offer bigger and deeper incentives. Joining us now is Jessica Caldwell,

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Speaker 1: executive director of industry Analysis for Edmunds dot com, and

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Speaker 1: she's joining us from Santa Monica, California. Jessica, welcome back

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Speaker 1: to the show. Yes, hi, thank you for having me.

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Speaker 1: Great to have you. First of all, characterize the trend

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Speaker 1: we saw last month in terms of the sales a

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Speaker 1: little bit weaker, but you know, compared to work with

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Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, the level still look pretty decent. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, okay, so straight off the press, it looks

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Speaker 1: like the latest calculation is going to show an increase

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Speaker 1: from last July, not only in total volume but also

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Speaker 1: instar So considering how strong last July was, I think

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Speaker 1: this is good news. I mean, we heard some kind

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Speaker 1: of negative news this morning from GM and four those

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Speaker 1: you know, big automakers, that a lot of smaller automakers

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Speaker 1: did well. Those that's kind of being lost in the story.

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Speaker 1: Some of the luxury brands suber Volto I can actually

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Speaker 1: do better than we thought they would. Um, So kind

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Speaker 1: of a mixed bag, I would say for auto cells,

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Speaker 1: but perhaps a little better than some of the headlines

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Speaker 1: out there suggesting. Jessica and why if you could comment

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Speaker 1: about automobile loans, because for the largest auto lenders, Ally Financial, Wells,

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Speaker 1: far Ago, JP, Morgan Chase, and Capital One Financial on

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Speaker 1: their quarter of the on their second quarter conference calls,

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Speaker 1: they said that they used that the price have used

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Speaker 1: automobiles are at risk of falling and uh if used

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Speaker 1: car prices fall, the amount of the unpaid balance that

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Speaker 1: the lenders can recoup is also at risk of declining. Well,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think for used autos, I mean I

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Speaker 1: think they're probably talking a little bit about some of

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Speaker 1: a glut of leash returns. I mean, we see a

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Speaker 1: big concentration in newer used vehicles. That means they're more expensive,

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Speaker 1: they're kind of harder to find homes usually cheaper uh

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Speaker 1: used cars which are older. It's so quicker. So I

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Speaker 1: think there is some trepidation about how high, how how

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Speaker 1: high the leasing has got because all those cars eventually

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Speaker 1: sales actually if you look at across the board are

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Speaker 1: coming in um as you say, if they're stronger than

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Speaker 1: last line, that's that's pretty dang good. So is this

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Speaker 1: So what is their problem? Well, I mean I think

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Speaker 1: that if you look at g M cells retail, they

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Speaker 1: for Ford, cars have been kind of an issue for them.

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Speaker 1: They you know, they came out with a lot of cars,

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Speaker 1: everything from the Fiesta to the Tours. They put a

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Speaker 1: I want to follow up on something you just said

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Speaker 1: about leases, because I understand that the number of automobiles

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Speaker 1: eight hundred thousand more than they were last year, Right,

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Speaker 1: that's the biggest jump in fifteen years. Are automobile companies

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Speaker 1: making enough money on the automobiles they said, uh, um,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's gonna be tough I think for these

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Speaker 1: consumers like leasing, and especially millennials, millennials at least more

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Speaker 1: than any other age group. UM, and that's the upcoming market.

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Speaker 1: So I think by trying to do things like lower

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Speaker 1: lease allotment miles UM do US leasing, that's going to

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Speaker 1: become a thing pretty soon. Try to really equip these

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Speaker 1: cars with the best features so in three cars when

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Speaker 1: they come back off of lease, they're not going to

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Speaker 1: be you know, out of date and people don't want them.

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Speaker 1: So autom because we're trying to move these lovers to

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Speaker 1: help residual values, which in turn are going to help

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Speaker 1: keep the low monthly lease payments low and make these

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Speaker 1: cars attractive when they come off of lease. And and

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Speaker 1: you know, don't just ruin the entire US car market.

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Speaker 1: You know, our our auto team out in Southfield, Michigan, Detroit,

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Speaker 1: Motor City, UH note in their story today that affordability

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Speaker 1: has become the biggest impediment to buying a new car,

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Speaker 1: according to survey by Auto Trader, with the average new

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Speaker 1: to thirty or four thousand dollars and change. Does this

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Speaker 1: put all the more pressure then on the automakers to

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Speaker 1: make again to to to step up the incentives again

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Speaker 1: to get people a price and discount that way, It

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Speaker 1: certainly does that people are choosing to buy vehicles that

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Speaker 1: have more technology in them, more equipment, more content. People

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Speaker 1: are choosing to buy larger vehicles. Um And that's kind

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Speaker 1: of reason why I don't think auto cells necessarily a peak,

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Speaker 1: just because transaction prices are higher. People are wanting larger cars,

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Speaker 1: people kind of go more downstream. So I think there

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Speaker 1: is pressure on incentives. But if you're making more money

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Speaker 1: selling larger trucks and SUVs, there's more profit margin, so

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Speaker 1: then you can offer more incentives. And also leasing is

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Speaker 1: another way you can get the prices to be a

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Speaker 1: bit lower for people to make them affordable. But people

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Speaker 1: right now there they want to expect with cars, and

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Speaker 1: that's the interesting thing that's happening, Jessica. Just quickly, by

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Speaker 1: the end of the year, we're gonna be at that

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Speaker 1: seventeen seventeen and a half million run rate for vehicles sales.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it looks like the second half is usually

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Speaker 1: big for automakers. Right now, I mean, you have the

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Speaker 1: end of summer sales you have Labor Day, and then

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Speaker 1: the past few years. So the second half is generally

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Speaker 1: stronger than the first. So we could, you know what,

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Speaker 1: with July fells beyond record case. Thanks very much for

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Speaker 1: spending time with us. Jessica Caldwell is executive director of

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Speaker 1: industry Analysis for Edmonds dot Com, joining us from Santa Monica, California,

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Speaker 1: taking a look at the US auto industry on a

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Speaker 1: day when Ford GM post declines in sales for the

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Speaker 1: month of July and Fiat christ their posts a small increase.

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