Databases store the bits of a company's information, everything from auto part inventory levels to personnel records.
Shares in auto part retailer Autozone were up 2% Tuesday after the company reported a 20% increase in net profit for its second quarter and same-store sales that increased by 7% from the year-ago period.
But now, rising Chinese wages are creating opportunity for people from Bangladesh to Indonesia, and even Mexico and Honduras as they start to fill in the ranks of garment workers left vacant by Chinese people becoming service workers, such as auto mechanics, auto part sellers and car salesmen.
Ms. MAYNARD: Well, what we're looking at in the auto industry is finally the realization that what they call alternate fuel vehicles, hybrids, electric cars are finally going to be part of the auto industry, a good part of the auto industry.
There is some leadership too in some of the defensive groups, the auto replacement-part stocks, AutoZone ( AZO) and Monro Muffler ( MNRO) to name two.
While high fuel prices would logically make smaller and more efficient models in greater demand, and thus demand higher prices, NADA says that used full-size pickups are commanding premium prices these days, with depreciation at about half the rate of the average auto, due in part to the healthier housing and construction sectors.
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And part of every auto policy that has been written to date has focused on a need for consolidation.
Retailers added the most jobs last month, propelled in part by higher auto sales as Americans replace aging cars.
Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve said that industrial output in the U.S. rose 0.6 percent in July, helped in part by the auto industry.
"While these results indicate Take-Two's efforts to diversify its portfolio beyond Grand Theft Auto are showing some success, continued product delays and the lack of profitability in non-Grand Theft Auto years, driven in part by the MLB license, will continue to weigh on shares, " says Heath Terry of FBR Capital Markets.
While the market for electric vehicles is heating up, with waiting lists for both the Nissan Leaf and the Chevy Volt and startup companies like Tesla, Arcimoto, and Coda Automotive upping their games, some industry watchers still wonder whether electric vehicles will ever become a significant part of the auto market.
And secondly, the government has decided to save the auto industry, and this is part of that plan.
We've talked about in the past week or so, help for auto supplies who have also been part of the downturn that has seen jobs go away.
The good news is that traffic fatalities are at historic lows, thanks in large part to increasingly sophisticated auto designs, advanced safety features and stricter seatbelt and DUI laws.
But, these were offset by the recovery in residential investment and consumer spending on durable goods which was boosted in part by an aging auto fleet feeding new car sales.
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Auto production trends are weakening due in part to the troubles in Europe.
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Well, late-model used cars have been among the most wanted vehicles in the overall auto market in recent years, in part because there have been so few of them since the beginning of the Great Recession.
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This part will likely remain unchanged as auto sales continue to flourish.
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On a conference call Tuesday afternoon, QuinStreet CEO Douglas Valenti blamed near-term weakness in part on increased volatility in the auto insurance segment.
The coast to coast traverse of the United States is steeped in lore and an iconic part of the nation's auto-centric heritage, going back to the days of Route 66, but how many people actually experience this great trip?
Ford, part of the founding family at the auto company, will remain as chairman, however, according to Tuesday's surprise announcement.
In the third part of our weeklong series on the auto industry, NPR's Celeste Headlee reports on how the UAW hopes to build its ranks by reaching beyond autoworkers.
Interesting to hear you say that auto plants are among the firms changing the upper part of South Carolina because we've also been visiting people just a couple hours away who wish they had a plant in their town.
The plant in Belvidere, Illinois, which produces the slow-selling Neon, seemed a sure bet to be shuttered, but Chrysler inadvertently outsmarted itself two years ago, when it agreed to restrictions on plant shutdowns as part of its contract with the United Auto Workers union.
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He cared so deeply about being part of the solution to create a viable American auto industry and a strong American manufacturing base.
It relies in part on the story of Mary Brown, an auto-repair-shop owner who argued in court filings she would have had to divert funds from her business to comply with the law's requirement that, beginning in 2014, most Americans obtain coverage or pay a penalty.
Or rather a dream reborn, because Valdiserri has revived part of a project that had been the dream of auto pioneer Henry Ford.
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