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GM reports Q2 net income of $2.9 billion

By Swati Deshpande,

Added 25 July 2016

The net income is 157 percent up compared to $1.1 billion in the second quarter of 2015

Global Vehicle Sales

GM sold 2.4 million vehicles globally in the second quarter of 2016 to customers, about equal to the second quarter of 2015. Through June 30, the company sold 4.76 million vehicles globally.

In the U.S., GM sold 1.44 million vehicles in the first six months of the year, which included a retail sales increase of more than 1 percent. U.S. retail market share rose 0.4 percentage points through June, the largest retail share gain of any full-line automaker. In China, GM and its joint ventures delivered a record 1.81 million vehicles during the first half of the year, an increase of 5.3 percent. In Europe, Opel / Vauxhall outperformed the industry with a 7-percent sales increase to 621,000 vehicles in the first half of the year.

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