courtesy of General MotorsThe Treasury Department’s SIGTARP report to Congress shows that taxpayers lost $9.695 billion on the General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) bailout, once loan repayments and stock sales were taken into…
courtesy of Toyota Motor Corp.With U.S. drivers keeping their cars for a longer time, high reliability is a prime asset. And reliability has long been a major selling point for Japanese companies…
Courtesy Toyota Motor Corp.Toyota Motor Corp. (NYSE: TM) said Monday that it sold 2.5 million vehicles in the most recent quarter. That was 2.8% more that in the same period of last…
courtesy of Daimler Global MediaDaimler, the parent company of Mercedes, posted good third-quarter earnings. Unfortunately for the car maker, the improvement was made largely on the back of sales of its cheapest…
ThinkstockThe steel industry tends to go with the pulse of U.S. and international economic growth. Mired in slow growth for years, the top steel stocks became relegated to the Wall Street doghouse.…
ThinkstockThe Chinese government agency that handles environmental issues told the residents of the huge city of Harbin to keep their cars and trucks garaged, as air pollution overwhelmed the city. It is…
ThinkstockThe saying is that if there is a trading strategy, then there is an ETF strategy for that as well. Now the markets are getting a new exchange-traded fund strategy aimed at…
White House Photo by Pete SouzaWarren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-A) has acquired the beverage dispensing and merchandising businesses of IMI for $1.1 billion. The U.K.-based engineering firm says it will use…
courtesy of General Motors Co.General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) has priced the new Cadillac ELR electric luxury car far too high for it to sell well. The primary reason is not that…
ThinkstockIn an interview in Tokyo on Wednesday, Toyota Motor Corp. (NYSE: TM) said it expects to unveil a hydrogen fuel cell car at next month’s Tokyo Auto Show and have the car…
courtesy of StarbucksFor a number of years, Starbucks Corp. (NASDAQ: SBUX) CEO Howard Schultz has displayed a sort of arrogance about what he, and sometimes his coffee company, can do to save the…
Courtesy Ford Motor Co.While September sales were off slightly from last year, the U.S. auto industry is up more than 8% for the year. However, success relies heavily on the popularity of…
courtesy of General Motors Co.The Cadillac division of General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) launched a new version of its Escalade super-SUV. And the release was done with great fanfare, a peculiar effort since…
courtesy of Tesla MotorsTesla Motors Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) has defied logic when it comes to valuation for a car company. We have by and large stopped tallying up valuation metrics because there are…
Courtesy Volkswagen AGWith only one exception, Volkswagen of America is the least successful big car company with a presence in the United States. And that presence is dwindling as consumers find better alternatives…
