U.S. auto sales in the first quarter of 2019 indicate the worst downturn in the market in five years, industry monitor J.D. Power and Associates said Monday.

After a not-so-merry holiday shopping season, retail sales bounced back in January, beating Wall Street expectations.

Germany has narrowly avoided slipping into an economic recession, statistics from the fourth quarter of 2018 showed Thursday.

Crude oil prices rose Wednesday after the markets were closed in the previous day, but any rally is likely to be short-lived, as sustainable significant increases are only seen later down the road.

U.S. retail sales rebounded in October as purchases of motor vehicles and building materials increased, the U.S. Census Bureau announced Thursday.

While Ford takes a hit in China due to the trade war between Washington and Beijing, the automaker hopes a new campaign will lift sales in the United States.

Volkswagen is ending production of its iconic Beetle, the German automaker said.

Industry leaders, labor union officials and foreign diplomats had a unified message at a Commerce Department hearing on tariffs on auto imports: Don't do it.

U.S. retail sales increased more than a half-percent last month, U.S. officials said Monday -- more than expected, and a sign of greater consumer confidence.

American automakers performed better than expected in December, putting the industry on track to achieve a new record sales mark for 2016.

A better-than-expected jobs report for July from the U.S. Department of Labor on Friday sent two U.S. stock indices into record territory on Wall Street.

The substantial growth that lasted for six years in the resurgent U.S. automobile industry might finally be leveling off, according to sales figures for July.

Authorities in Florida said they arrested a man accused of stealing a BMW and 60 sets of car keys one day after he tried to purchase the car with food stamps.

At the Detroit Auto Show Wednesday, Obama got a close look at the industry's latest designs and technology -- and hailed its rebound from the 2009 crisis.

Chinese and European companies are advancing green vehicle technology amid signs of modest momentum in retail sales in a low oil price era.