Toyota (NYSE: TM), its U.S. sales damaged by recalls and an earthquake which hampered its production roared by in sales last month. Sales of the company, which was once No.2 in American market…
Jon OggThe Value Investing Congress often generates some stock-moving buzz around shares as some of the key money managers and hedge fund managers get to present their case for why they see…
The real trouble for U.S. companies that operate abroad is supposedly sales in the European Union. Legions of public corporations with significant portions of their revenue from the region will report that a slow…
The three major U.S. stock indexes opened higher this morning as markets shook off weak news from Europe in favor of better news from Asia. In Europe, German unemployment stayed at 8.6%…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall St. research calls this Thursday. Altera Corp. (NASDAQ: ALTR) cut to Hold at Jefferies. ArcelorMittal (NYSE: MT) cut…
In 2011, new car and light truck sales in the United States came in at about 13 million units sold. According to TrueCar.com, forecast sales for September put new light vehicle sales…
In rather a statement of the obvious, Volkswagen said today that market conditions in Europe had become noticeably tougher and that they likely would not get better in the near future. However,…
Admitting that it had overestimated both the market for all-electric vehicles (EVs) and the ability of battery makers to meet consumer requirements, Toyota Motor Corp. (NYSE: TM) announced this morning that it…
U.S. automaker General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) said today that it is recalling 426,240 U.S. vehicles to fix a problem with the cars’ transmissions. The affected models are Chevrolet Malibu, Pontiac G6…
Paul Ausick The three large American auto firms have to hope that their negotiations with the United Auto Workers will be as easy as the ones they have had with the Canadian Auto Workers. The…
iPhone 5 Sales Forecasts The launch of the Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone 5 began in Asia and has moved toward the United States, where it will be available for sale today. The…
The new Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone 5 brings in long customer lines in Asia. (Reuters) Apple’s map application receives poor reviews. (Reuters) Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) says it will no…
The management of one more car company says it expects huge sales improvements over the next few years. There is hardly a large manufacturer that has not forecast double-digit growth or better in roughly that…
Nike Inc. (NYSE: NKE) will buy back $8 billion in shares. (Reuters) More than 5 million Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) members are children who have been banned from the social network. (Reuters)…
Car and light truck sales represent a large enough part of the consumer economy to be a reasonable proxy for optimism, pessimism, the desire of people to hold what money they have,…
Douglas A. McIntyre 
