May 20, 2013
This past week, there was a continuing climb in gasoline prices, now totaling an increase of $0.08 per gallon over the past two weeks and narrowing the difference to only $0.11 under the price one year ago.
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May 13, 2013
The first thing that really stood out over the past week of auctions was the increase in the number of 2013 models that received their initial market driven wholesale values. Black Book editors added 26 different 2013 models with market-based values.
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April 15, 2013
There is still enough interest and used-vehicle demand that, for the past six weeks, at least 60 percent of the adjustments were increases.
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April 8, 2013
As the week progressed and comments arrived from the Black Book survey personnel, there were primarily three main descriptions of the auction activity and market: steady, good and strong.
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April 1, 2013
During the last week of March, gasoline prices continued to fall, but only $0.015 this past week, and no single used-vehicle segment seems to show highest overall demand.
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March 25, 2013
When demand is present, used-vehicle prices will generally increase or at least stay stable. Overall, the market is very stable with segment average changes week over week.
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March 20, 2013
Black Book recently announced that Ricky Beggs has been promoted to the position of senior vice president, editorial director. Beggs will continue to oversee all of Black Book’s vehicle valuation data and media contacts.
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March 18, 2013
There was a tremendous amount of activity within the wholesale market this past week. When looking at the last few weeks, the numbers are pretty solid. While expecting solid retention, Black Book has also consistently said the level of retention would not be at those of 2012 and 2011.
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March 11, 2013
Better-than-normal sales conversions are continuing into early March, according to Ricky Beggs, vice president and managing editor of "Black Book."
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February 25, 2013
As Black Book staff attended the auctions, talked with many dealers, and looked at the commentary from the Black Book survey personnel, there were three main topics of interest that kept coming up (in no particular order): a strong market, the current tax season, and the rapidly climbing gas prices.
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