Americans may cut back car purchase as shipments of automobiles from Japan fall due to the earthquake and tsunami there. The effect on US car companies would seem to be positive, but…
Chinese car maker BYDÂ Co. (OTC: BYDDF) posted strong sales in 2008 and 2009 and predicted that sales in 2010 would nearly double, to about 800,000 units. In August, the company, in which…
General Motors Company (NYSE: GM) did not do its new shareholders much of a favor today by allowing Chris Liddell to resign this soon after the initial public offering. The former Microsoft…
Toyota Motor Corp. (NYSE: TM) has just recovered from a year that could have sunk lesser companies. Mere survival, though, is not Toyota’s goal. The company’s president and grandson of Toyota’s founder,…
The Federal Reserve may change it bond buying plans because of higher oil prices. (Reuters) Toyota Motor (NYSE: TM) plans to double profits by 2015 through the launch of new hybrids and…
History could be about to repeat itself. In 2008, gasoline prices moved above $3/gallon and sales of gas-guzzling SUVs, pickups, and some cars plummeted. With gasoline prices moving inexorably toward $4/gallon today,…
The sales of  Toyota (NYSE: TM) cars and light trucks rose 42% in February to a total of 141,826. Toyota sold nearly as many cars last month as Ford Motor (NYSE: F)…
There is a car price war about to take place in the US. It will be driven by the large number of new models which have begun to be released, the high…
The National Association for Business Economics said the deficit was its No.1 concern. (Reuters) Congress appears less likely to shut down the government because of budget problems. (Reuters) The high price of…
A new forecast shows that car sales will drop in February from January when measured by the Seasonally Adjusted Annualized Rate. The February number will translate into an SAAR of 12.5 million cars…
Twitter  has, by most estimates, 175 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have more than…
Nothing like the Chapter 11 filing of a major public company brings in poor press notices. Borders Group filed for bankruptcy and closed 200 stores which is also bound to hurt it…
24/7 Wall St. chose the ten most important pieces of news for major US corporations so far this year. Our evaluation was based on the history of the company and industry involved…
Negative press about Chevron (NYSE: CVX) has reached a boiling point after news that the oil company had been hit with a $9.5 billion ruling by an Ecuador count. The penalty comes…
Reuters: A Deutsche Borse deal with the the NYSE (NYSE: NYX) faces regulatory resistance (Reuters) Reuters: Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Nokia (NYSE: NOK) will try to create competition for Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG)…
