31. The seasonally adjusted selling rate for cars during the month was 7.1 million, the same as in September. 32. Merrill Lynch analyst John Casesa predicts a slightly lower selling rate of 17 . 9 million for December. 33. Gary Lapidus of Goldman Sachs predicts a seasonally adjusted annual selling rate of 18 million vehicles in December. 34. Inventories of new homes remain lean, he added, with less than five months'supply at the latest selling rate . 35. Pitcoff predicted that the new incentives would raise the selling rate for each of the next three quarters. 36. The industry's seasonally adjusted annual selling rate of 15.4 million units last month was the lowest since August 1998. 37. Selling rate of banks yesterday was P43.75 : $ 1 and clients were limited to $ 3, 000 apiece.38. Healy predicts an annual selling rate of 16 . 9 million units for September, the same as last year. 39. Of the leading automakers reporting sales Thursday, only Toyota and Nissan posted increases based on a daily selling rate . 40. Analysts had pegged the June selling rate at 14 . 4 million before Ford and Chrysler released their sales figures.
