The primary reason, it is often argued, that China is an important market for many large U.S. companies is that its population has doubled since the early 1960s. But the whole picture…
Chrysler was supposed to stumble out of Chapter 11. The recovery of General Motors (NYSE: GM) was remarkable. Ford’s (NYSE: F) success was based on its ability to introduce new products quickly because…
Wall St. expects same-store sales for December to rise 4.3%. (Reuters) Returns of holiday online gifts are expect to reach a record. (Reuters) Venezuela says it will pay Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM)…
The PMI of the eurozone contracted in December. Official numbers from research firm Markit showed a figure of 46.9 for the final month of the year. A number of 50 marks the line between…
http://platform.twitter.com/widgets/hub.1324331373.html Hyundai and Kia have been the fast growing auto brands for two years now. They offer affordable quality much as Toyota (NYSE: TM) and Honda (NYSE: HMC) have for the last…
US automaker Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) will sell more than 2 million vehicles in the US in 2011, the first time since 2007 that any car maker has sold that many…
What Eddie Lampert put together in 2005 could be broken into pieces again, and that might be the only realistic way to “fix” Sears Holdings (NASDAQ: SHLD). Lampert engineered a merger of…
Truecar, a research firm, expects December auto sales to be the best of any month this year. If so, it would be another confirmation that the American consumer has returned to the…
New car sales in the US for December are forecast to rise 8.1%, including fleet sales, to an annual seasonally adjusted sales rate of 13.5 million new vehicles. The annualized sales rate…
A number of incredible new products were launched this year. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) introduced the iPhone 4S — a phone with voice command — and Boeing’s (NYSE: BA) 787 Dreamliner — a…
It is amazing how large multinational car companies can see into the future and predict their sales with certainty. Toyota (NYSE: TM) says it will sell 8.48 million cars and light trucks…
Toyota (NYSE: TM) expects record sales of 8.48 cars and light vehicles next year, 20% higher than this. The company believes its drive higher will be helped by the ability to get its…
Honda (NYSE: HMC), which has been dogged by the value of the yen and loss of production due to the March earthquake will move more production to North America, one of its…
Spending on advertising barely showed a pulse in the third quarter of 2011, growing by just 0.4%, according a report from Kantar Media cited in The New York Times. Spending growth has…
It took the better part of a year. The owners of Saab sought capital all over the world, and the search ended in China. But a deal with local manufacturers and a government…
Douglas A. McIntyre 
