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Federal Reserve Interest Rate Hikes Likely to Hit New Car Sales in USA in 2018

Federal Reserve Interest Rate Hikes Likely to Hit New Car Sales in USA in 2018

Automakers will shortly reveal their sales figures for the final month of 2018, with many analysts predicting the end of an unbroken annual growth streak since 2009.
Federal Reserve Interest Rate Hikes Likely to Hit New Car Sales in USA in 2018
We’ll soon have reporting on the vehicle sales data for December 2017, though the general feeling is that it will have been a difficult month across the board in the US market.

Forecasts for 2018 currently indicate that vehicle sales in the USA this year will not hit 17 million, as they comfortably managed in both 2015 and 2016, with multiple factors coming together to hit manufacturers’ sales.

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