The phrase "auto financial" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in contexts related to automotive financing or financial services for vehicles, but it is better to use more established terms.
Example: "The dealership offers various auto financial options to help customers purchase their new cars."
Alternatives: "automotive finance" or "vehicle financing".
CBS, of course, gave the normal synergy talk: The network's relations with auto, financial services and drug companies will bring new advertisers to CNet, and CNet's tech advertisers will add customers to CBS properties.
STATE AUTO FINANCIAL CORP., Columbus, Ohio, an auto insurer, has received an offer of $316 million, up from $299.6 million, from Gregory Shepard, an investor with a 5percentt stake in the company.
Ally does not lend directly to consumers and does not receive information about borrowers' race or ethnicity and, consequently, does not discriminate, Republicans and the auto financial industry said.
Their auto financial business isn't knocking the cover off the ball by any means so I think that it's an indication that there is more trouble to come.
Today, managers in many prominent sectors, including autos, financial services, energy, and health care, face the challenge of pursuing emerging technologies that carry a high degree of uncertainty with regard to their economic viability and their companies' competitive position.
The intertwining troubles of the auto and financial industries were partly behind the sharp sell-off in financial stocks last week, when banking shares fell to their lowest levels since the economic crisis broke out and questions swirled about the future of Citigroup.
A broad improvement in auto and financial operations allowed the Ford Motor Company to post slightly better earnings for the fourth quarter than financial analysts had expected, but the automaker's shares fell on fears that further profit gains might prove elusive.
Among the categories generating the gains, Mr. Freitas listed automotive accessories, auto dealers, financial services, insurance and real estate, local advertisers and restaurants.
Comcast's advertising revenue fell by 25percentt in the quarter to $262 million, with particular weakness in auto and financial ads, which is affecting many media companies.
In part, that is because the significant accomplishments of the last two years — health care reform, the stimulus package, the resuscitation of the auto industry, financial reform — were savagely attacked by the right and aggressively misrepresented as the hoof beats of totalitarianism.
In addition to the auto industry, financial services and travel companies tended to run longer campaigns, which Mr. Buchwalter attributed to the fact that these industries usually had more experience with offline and online advertising and generally had longer media planning cycles.
