Bloomberg It’s clear the era of rapid growth for US auto sales is over. The industry entered 2017 with analysts projecting the first significant decline in eight years — a drop of 200,000 vehicles, about the equivalent of one factory’s production — to 17.3 million cars and light trucks. While top-earning consumers will continue to snap up luxury vehicles …

  Bloomberg Tesla Motors Inc. customers in the UK may find their Christmas cash goes a little further than expected after the carmaker postponed a price increase by two weeks. The US electric-auto manufacturer’s plans to raise prices 5 percent in the UK have been put off until Jan. 15 from the original beginning-of-the-year deadline, Tesla said in an e-mailed …

  Bloomberg Household confidence in the US is closing in on its best year since before the last recession, according to figures in the Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index. Comfort measure cooled to 46 in period ended Dec. 25, the first retreat in five weeks, from 46.7. The gauge in the prior week was the strongest since April 2015. Gauge of …