Grand larcenies are down 48%, auto thefts are down 24% and felony assaults dropped 31%, department figures show.
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Plus, the Commerce Department reported that retail sales fell 0.5% in June, the second straight monthly decline, with auto sales down 2.3%.
So far, core has been held down by auto pricing and corporate willingness to hold prices and margins down in the U.S. The coming slowdown in profit growth may cause multi-nationals to push through U.S. price increases.
State and local government spending and auto manufacturing dragged down the overall number.
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Meanwhile the European auto sector was down following a spate of analyst downgrades, with Morgan Stanley downgrading Daimler and HSBC looking unfavorably on Volkswagen.
U.S. auto sales were down across the board for January compared to the same time last year, although some say the decline was less steep than expected and offered hope for the Michigan-based auto giants.
Cash for Clunkers is saving jobs up and down the auto supply chain: from dealers to assembly workers and parts markers.
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It allowed Toyoda to reshape Toyota for the new reality of the global auto market, pushing down responsibility to leaders in its various regions.
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That's what will determine whether she goes down as auto racing's version of Chris Evert, a multiple champion whose popularity and endorsement opportunities lasted long past her playing days, or of Tracy Austin, who had just a brief run as the world's top-ranked female player before faltering.
Tightening credit is clamping down on the auto industry as Ford Motor announced its U.S. sales in September sunk 34.6% to 120, 788 vehicles, its weakest levels of the year, from 184, 612 reported in September 2007.
Toyoda said in the interview that the company won't start building any new auto plants through 2015 to keep fixed costs down despite burgeoning sales and what he feels are good prospects for global auto growth.
Others think the slump in housing and auto sales will gradually bring inflation down of its own volition in the coming months.
The foreigners like their plants nonunion--in fact, so do their auto workers--and they turn down the union in elections.
Meanwhile, data for May has shown copper and wire cable shipments rising 18% year on year to the construction sector, although down 21% to the auto sector.
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Just as innovation matters in the tech category, it matters in the auto category and Toyota, while buckling down on the basics and every other rule of brand ascendency, is nothing, if not inventive in its thinking.
With us now is Jeb Conrad, head of the Greater Kokomo Economic Development Alliance, Chris Rohaly, founding partner of Green Alternatives, but he's also holding down a job in the auto industry, and Kirk Daniels, owner of Freedom Financial Group, a local investment firm.
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We used the equity from our old house to pay off three small auto loans and to make a 35% down payment on our new house.
His view is that auto premiums will, of course, go down but that claims and other operating costs will, as well, so insurance will be a more profitable business for the survivors.
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Stock prices of the two biggest private auto lenders, Itau and Bradesco (BBD) are down by 23% and 13% respectively year-to-date.
Domestic auto sales were also in focus as the week wound down, with February figures from Ford Motor and Chrysler coming in at five-year highs and General Motors topping estimates with a 7% sales increase.
It would be nice, of course, if Microsoft had a road to Damascus moment and suddenly made Xbox Live free as many have requested, but I have a feeling they have too many people locked into the auto-pay option to just shut the whole system down.
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That makes sense since they are the two largest purchases consumers make, usually with most of the purchase price financed, significantly multiplying the economic effect of the cash down payment, while increased home construction and auto production results in significant new business for the long stream of suppliers to those industries.
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Now that so many market norms have broken down, it may be time to rethink this auto-pilot approach.
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Well, a big part of it was the decision to downsize so they could pay off those three auto loans and put up a big, fat 35% down payment.
Later Friday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi backed down from her opposition to a rescue of the auto industry with funds intended to make environmentally sound vehicles, two congressional officials told CNN.
Computer modeling allows today's auto engineers to precisely design vehicles, engines and transmissions, down to the smallest detail, for maximum strength without having to repeatedly build and test actual components over and over along the way, said Quinnell.
Plus, nonviolent incidents like auto theft that don't involve guns at all are also down.
May auto sales fell 47.3 percent, and the market is down 40 percent for the year.
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