9:33am ET
Cars and Drivers
Used Cars Pile Up Undermining Ford (F) And GM (GM)
The tendency among buyers of auto stocks is to look at falling expenses at the big firms like GM (GM) and Ford (F) and to hope that unit sales in the US…
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6:25am ET
Investing
Top 10 Pre-Market Analyst Calls (AET, BIDU, F, JNS, IPG, LOW, HD, NEM, NOC, RSH, VM)
These are ten of the top calls we see affecting shares this Friday morning in the early pre-market trading hours: Aetna (NYSE: AET) raised to neutral at Credit Suisse. Baidu.com (NASDAQ: BIDU)…
2:56am ET
Media
Media Digest 4/25/2008 Reuters,WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg
According to Reuters, two Chinese citizens have filed a $1.3 billion suit against CNN(TWX) for insulting the people in their country. Reuters reports that Honda’s net fell and that the company said…
6:09am ET
Cars and Drivers
A Comeback For Ford (F)
Ford’s (F) share are trading up 5%. The company had an outstanding quarter. The car company reported net income of $100 million, or 5 cents per share, for the first quarter of…
Douglas A. McIntyre 5:26am ET
Cars and Drivers
No Turnaround At Ford (F)
The Wall Street Journal thinks that things are getting better at Ford (F) and that management efforts can now be called a "turnaround". The paper points to improving earnings and cars which…
Douglas A. McIntyre 4:21pm ET
Investing
Some Of The World’s Most Powerful Brands, And Some That Are Not (AAPL)(GOOG)(IBM)(C)(SBUX)
Once a year, the firm Millard Brown puts out its BrandZ 100 Most Valuable Brands. The data used for the list comes from consumer research and financial data on the companies. The…
6:53am ET
Investing
Top 10 Pre-Market Analyst Calls (ADS, COF, CTL, CSCO, CYMI, F, GM, BEN, GPS, GOOG, MKSI, TXT)
These are not all of the analyst calls affecting shares, but these are the initial calls we are focusing on early this Friday morning: Alliance Data Systems (NYSE: ADS) Raised to Buy…
5:53am ET
Cars and Drivers
As Nissan Links Up With Chrysler, A Lesson For Ford (F)
Nissan and Chrysler will begin joint production of some cars and trucks. It makes sense. Nissan produces small, fuel-efficient cars and the US company is the past master of building pick-ups. So,…
Douglas A. McIntyre 5:25am ET
Cars and Drivers
Detroit’s Newest Lifeboat: Exporting Cars From The US
The Big Three reason that if they cannot sell enough cars in the US, they can make them here and send them overseas. There new agreement with the UAW and a weak…
9:41am ET
Media
Who Will Buy Sirius (SIRI): If It Has To Be Sold?
Once The Justice Department cleared the merger of Sirius (NASDAQ: SIRI) with XM Satellite (NASDAQ: XMSR) and there was some anticipation that the deal would get done the shares of both companies…
5:20am ET
Economy
How Does A Market Move Up 400 Points On Bad News?
Rally caps were out in force yesterday with the Dow moving up almost 400 points. How and why it did that in a day of predominantly bad news is hard to fathom.…
2:48am ET
Media
News Digest 4/2/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTImes, FT, Bloomberg
According to Reuters, Lehman (LEH) raised $4 billion. Reuters writes that US factory orders probably fell in February. Reuters reports that the Fed approved the JPMorgan (JPM) purchase of Bear Stearns (BSC)…
12:31pm ET
Cars and Drivers
US Car Sales: Even Toyota (TM) Has A Bad Month
It says a lot when sales of Toyota’s (TM) are actually falling. In March, vehicle sales for the big Japanese company fell 10.3% in the US market to 217,730, Total passenger car…
11:13am ET
Cars and Drivers
Ford (F) Falters
In March, Ford, Lincoln and Mercury sales totaled 213,074, down 14 percent compared with a year ago. Sales to individual retail customers were 17 percent lower than a year ago, with essentially…
Douglas A. McIntyre 5:15pm ET
Cars and Drivers
GM (GM) King Of Online Marketing, Chrysler Plays Joker
New research out reveals that GM (NYSE:GM) has made a sharp and powerful turn to the internet for marketing. A new comScore survey shows that in January, GM delivered nearly 1.7 billion…