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Edward Brown III, a former banking executive who spent the last decade of his career leading Hendrick Automotive Group as CEO, died April 3 at age 74. Brown had non-Hodgkin lymphoma, according to an obituary published by the Charlotte Observer. Brown joined Hendrick Automotive, one of the country’s largest dealership groups, in 2010 as its
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Capital One has decided to terminate its auto dealer services business offering floorplan lending. “We will be winding down that work this year,” a Capital One spokesperson told Automotive News in a written statement. “This has no impact on the CapitalOne Auto Finance business. Our auto business remains well-positioned to support our dealer partners and
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Every weekday the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer holds a “Morning Meeting” livestream at 10:20 a.m. ET. Here’s a recap of Monday’s key moments. Labor costs still elevated Watch Caterpillar Buy Ford 1. Labor costs still elevated Stocks ticked lower Monday. It was the first regular trading session since Friday’s jobs report from the
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Volkswagen Group’s choice of Ontario for a new battery cell manufacturing plant puts Canada in contention to land an additional auto assembly operation, as the German automaker’s luxury brand Audi weighs establishing a new North American site to build electric vehicles, auto analysts say. A Canadian assembly plant to complement the planned battery site in
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Tesla Inc. will build a new battery factory in Shanghai, increasing investment in China at a time of brewing tensions between Beijing and Washington. Tesla will manufacture Megapack large-scale energy-storage units in the new facility, which adds to its factory for electric vehicles in Shanghai. Tesla made the announcement at a signing ceremony for the
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The latest moves to clarify whose electric vehicles will get a federal tax credit are also revealing something the auto industry probably doesn’t think much about: The larger aim of last year’s Inflation Reduction Act is really to bolster American national security. In that context, the Biden administration’s fast passage of a U.S.-Japan trade agreement
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Credit unions beat out rivals for auto financing market share during the fourth quarter of 2022, and dealership finance and insurance offices should expect them to remain strong competitors this year. Dawit Kebede, senior economist at the Credit Union National Association, said credit unions achieved 21 percent growth in auto loans last year. “Best. Year.
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