courtesy Ford Motor Co.February U.S. sales numbers are due out from most U.S. and foreign automakers today, and it looks like February was another good month for car sales. Chrysler Group, which…
ThinkstockThe public remains awed every time a U.S. car company adds even a few employees. Perhaps that is because so many tens of thousands lost jobs during the recession and bankruptcies of…
Douglas A. McIntyre ThinkstockEuropean Unemployment Rises Euro area unemployment rose again, a sign that austerity has not helped alleviate economic markets and likely has caused an erosion of jobs. According to Eurostat figures: The euro area (EA17) seasonally-adjusted unemployment…
courtesy of General MotorsIn December 2012, new car and light truck sales in the U.S. came in at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of about 15.4 million units sold. According to TrueCar.com,…
ThinkstockApple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) aggressively moves into India, with discounts on the iPhone, to get a part of the huge market. (Reuters) Japan will spend $100 billion on infrastructure to boost its economy. (Reuters)…
courtesy of AOL, IncGermany’s low exports cause its gross domestic product to drop in the fourth quarter. (Reuters) United Continental Holdings Inc. (NYSE: UAL) will not fly the Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA)…
ThinkstockCanada — long considered a better nation than they United States because of its low violence rates, tolerance, spirit of equality and free health care — is home to just as many…
courtesy Ford Motor Co.The number of cars sold in Europe reached a historic low in January, and there is not a bit of evidence that the situation will improve soon. The storm…
White House Photo by Pete SouzaBerkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) and Warren Buffett may have surprised the markets with the $28 billion purchase of H.J. Heinz Company (NYSE: HNZ), but there…
U.S. equity markets opened lower this morning, dragged down by weak economic data from Europe. Germany, France, Italy, and Greece all reported worse-than-expected GDP contraction for the fourth quarter of 2012, and…
Wikimedia CommonsGeneral Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) reported fourth-quarter and full-year 2012 results before markets opened this morning. For the quarter, the automaker posted diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.54 on revenues…
Paul Ausick ThinkstockThe top-selling cars in the U.S. in January came from General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) with total sales of about 195,000 vehicles, Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) with sales of about 166,000,…
courtesy of Volkswagen of AmericaVolkswagen, which many industry experts expect to pass General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) and Toyota Motor Corp. (NYSE: TM) as the world’s largest car company within the next…
TheDapperDan via Wikimedia CommonsPreventing Currency Wars The Group of Seven nations have agreed to provisions to prevent currency wars. The prospect that countries might protect their trade via currency valuation manipulation has…
ThinkstockFor every story about the impoverished, the unemployed and the starving around the world, there is one about the lives of the rich and famous. Billionaire lists offset those of African farms…
