KQED Nightly Business Report January 6, 2016
Trucks. Topping the previous high set in 2000. The reasons are the ones weve been telling you about, cheap gas, low rates on loans and a strengthening economy and job market. As phil lebeau explains, records were broken despite lukewarm sales in the final month of the year. Reporter americans bought new cars, trucks absuvs at a strong pace in december, though maybe not as strong as many on wall street expected. The major automakers boosted sales last month between 5 and 1 which was generally shy of what many on wall street were expecting. The one notable exception, General Motors increased sal...