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Signal Intelligence for Automotive Retail

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Monday Signal Brief: Week of June 30, 2026
Monday Brief

Monday Signal Brief: Week of June 30, 2026

Payment wall at $813. Tariff floor defined. Hybrid prices at all-time highs. SAAR year-end call: 15.85M. Plus 3 open recalls your service lane should run this week.

Nobody Trusts Yelp. Nobody Can Quite Ignore It Either.
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Nobody Trusts Yelp. Nobody Can Quite Ignore It Either.

Franchise dealers have been right to distrust Yelp for two decades. What they have not reckoned with is what the platform has become in its decline, and where that leaves their rating on a Sunday morning when a customer is trying to find their lot.

Monday Signal Brief — June 23, 2026
Signal Brief

Monday Signal Brief — June 23, 2026

The Fed isn't cutting. Credit stress is moving earlier. CarMax's finance arm just became the largest Tier 2 lender. Recalls, inventory, and one jobs number worth a callback. All of it in plain language.

Monday Morning Signal Brief — June 16, 2026
Signal Brief

Monday Morning Signal Brief — June 16, 2026

Used EV prices are moving. Everyone is blaming gas. The data says something else. Plus May SAAR, our Q3 model projection, and 1M Jeeps with a park-outside warning.

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Monday Morning Signal Brief — June 9, 2026
Signal Intel

Monday Morning Signal Brief — June 9, 2026

EV wholesale up 11.9% YoY. May payments at $748 with $3,297 in incentives doing the carrying. Recall radar. Dealer hours and Google scoreboard coming. DARPI launches.

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30.9%
Trade-ins underwater
Edmunds Q1 2026
$7,183
Avg. negative equity
All-time high
22.9%
84-month loan share
Exceeds lease penetration
6.80%
Subprime delinquency
32-year high