U.S.auto sales drop for the sixth-straight month

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DETROIT-Total U.S.light-vehicle sales dropped 2.6 percent from a year earlier,marking the third time in the past decade that sales in each of the first six months of the year failed to top year-earlier totals.However,the down month did not slow the seasonally adjusted annual sales rate,which topped the 17 million mark for the third time in four months at nearly 17.3 million.Most analysts were projecting sales to come in below that level at the beginning of the year.There were 26 selling days last month,one fewer than June 2018,when the industry racked up one of its biggest gains of the year.