AMD (AMD) Gets Smacked Down, Again
AMD (AMD) should sign up to be in the World Wrestling Federation.At least when an opponent hits it with a chair, it can get paid. Dreamworks, an account of modest size but huge PR…
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Sales of vehicles sold in China by Ford (F) and its partners rose 21% in the first half to 172,411, according to Reuters. That sounds good, and, to some extent, it is. Ford sold…
Toyota’s (TM) Poor Call: No Prius In The Garage
The Toyota (TM) Prius, the most successful hybrid car in the world, is about to become even more fuel-efficient. According to Reuters, the company "plans to install solar panels on some Prius hybrids in…
GM (GM) Tries To Save Itself
GM (GM) will try to save itself again. It may be too late. The company may already be in hospice The nation’s largest car company is considering dumping thousand of white collar workers and…
A GM (GM) Chapter 11?
Merrill Lynch has said what many people already believe. One of the large US car companies could go into bankruptcy. Merrill’s comments target GM (GM). The brokerage’s analysis is that the biggest US car…
Honda (HMC) Sells Two Of Top Five Cars In US
It speaks volumes that Honda (HMC), an also-ran Japanese car company behind Toyota (TM) for years, had two of the top five selling cars in the US during June. It is a testament to…
GM (GM): Rick Wagoner Would Not Make It At Honda?
The theory goes that if 1,000 monkeys typed for 1,000 years, one of them could recreate the work of William Shakespeare. It is a bit like that in the GM (GM) executive suite. As…
With June Worse Than Expected, Question Arises Whether GM (GM) And Ford (F) Can Stay Independent
The June numbers for domestic vehicles sales were worse than expected. Most of the car companies posted 30% or greater declines in light truck and SUV units. For Ford (F), total units dropped 28.1%…
Merging Ford (F) And Chrysler
It has been over a year since hedge fund Cerberus bought Chrysler and installed Home Depot (HD) pariah Robert Nardelli as the car company’s unlikely CEO. Cerberus coughed up $7.4 billion for the privilege…
US Auto Sales Coming With Free Rope (GM, F, TM, HMC)
On Tuesday, it won’t just be the first day of the month nor just the first day of the quarter. It is yet another reporting day for new car and truck sales in the…
Detroit Drowns The UAW
The UAW’s members have become prisoners of the economic war, used now as galley slaves rowing a fleet of doomed ships of into the hellish center of an oil-crazed war between OPEC and the…
The Word “Default” Enters Detroit’s Lexicon
Three years ago, rating firms like Moody’s were talking about the chances that one of the "Big Three" automakers might have to file Chapter 11. That seems like a long time ago. The cause…
Nissan Sees Trouble In US Car Market
Ever since he lost out on a bid to take control of GM (GM), Carlos Ghosn has seemed a bit punchy. His golden touch at Nissan and Renault have failed him. The companies are…
GM (GM): An “Interest Free” Myth
There is no more such a thing as "interest free" car loans than there is Big Foot in the northern forests. There may be tracks in the snow, but, out beyond the tree-line, there…
Ford (F) Says It Will Never Make Money Again
What about the idea that The Ford Motor Company (F) will never make money in North America again? Ford told Wall St for the second time in as many months that things at the…