In September, Ford (nyse: F - news - people ) Explorer sales were up 22%, Nissan (nasdaq: NSANY - news - people ) Pathfinder sales were up 20%, Toyota (nyse: TM - news - people ) 4Runner sales were up 13% and GMC Envoy sales were up 6%.
On Tuesday, the two companies announced 7% sales declines for the month of April, while Toyota Motor (nyse: TM - news - people ) sales rose 8.5% and Honda Motor (nyse: HMC - news - people ) sales rose 6.5%.
The numbers are bare bones no news of sales broken down by iPhone versus iPad or, for that matter, Android tablets.
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News that sales of new homes in 2012 were the highest since 2009, sparked hopes that the US housing market turned a corner last year.
The news on Prozac sales now is even worse than Lilly (nyse: LLY - news - people ) expected: "With nearly two months of Prozac sales data available, the erosion in prescriptions is the most severe ever for a blockbuster product in our industry, " Taurel said in a conference call this morning.
So the June sales were a 23.6% increase over that record low, which was the headline news, but sales were only 6.1% above the consensus forecast of a bounce to 311, 000 units after the big plunge in May.
The companies' sales news confirms figures from the British Retail Consortium, showing high street stores enjoyed a booming Christmas.
Both metals are benefitting from supportive news on auto sales, but in the end, palladium may prove to see more gains.
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Apple stock is behaving well on the news of declining sales.
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Women's weekly magazines tend to rely utterly on news-stand sales.
Last weekend, another report from Shanghai Securities News indicated that sales of washing machines, air conditioners and refrigerators increased by 6.5 percent, 0.5 percent and 22 percent, respectively, year on year in September.
The company began to notice a pattern of heavy selling volume in its shares coinciding with positive news of new software sales, including two alliances with IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ) announced in late 2000 and early 2001.
And, of course, tighter inventory and lower sales are bad news for many in the real estate industry who depend on sales.
This follows encouraging economic news from increased auto sales to continued expansion of our manufacturing sector.
However, JC Penney has been making news lately, with sales declining 23% for the same period.
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In U.S. economic news, pending home sales for February fell 0.4%, a touch more than expectations for a 0.3% decline.
All things being equal, a low price-to-sales ratio is good news for investors, while a very high price-to-sales ratio can be a warning sign.
The news on video game sales in March was decidedly mixed.
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In somewhat related auto news, December auto sales indicated the strongest year for vehicle sales since 2007, with estimates now at 14.5 million units.
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The good news is that although sales of Surface and Windows 8 have underperformed so far, Microsoft has at least answered some critics who questioned the functionality of tablets in general.
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The company began to notice a pattern of heavy selling volume in its shares coinciding with positive news of new software sales, including two alliances with IBM announced in late 2000 and early 2001.
The NRF back-to-school outlook goes against the grain of recent lackluster news on the retail front, from a small industry sales decline in June to a reduced July sales forecast from discount giant Target (nyse: TGT - news - people ), which announced on Monday that it expects to grow same-store sales 3% to 4% this month compared with last July's sales, down from an earlier 4% to 6% forecast.
The auto industry is bouncing back, partly due to a rebound in truck sales, which is especially good news for U.S.-based carmakers, since truck sales still account for a disproportionate amount of profit for General Motors, Ford Motor and Chrysler.
Dell 's (nasdaq: DELL - news - people ) sales multiple: 1.0.
News reports initially suggested such sales could occur, and this was followed by a denial from Cyprus.
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Its shares fell 1.7% on the news of the disappointing iPhone sales.
The good news is that while motorcycle sales rose slightly last year, thefts actually dropped by about six percent, totaling 46, 667 reported stolen.
What about executives who learn a piece of bad news, say when the sales manager tells them a major customer just canceled his order?
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Nissan's (nasdaq: NSANY - news - people ) sales have been falling in Japan, in the United States and in Europe.
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