6:00am ET
Investing
BMW Reach No.1 Luxury Car Spot In 2011
Several media have reported that BMW has pushed ahead of competitors Mercedes and the Toyota (NYSE: TM) luxury brands to take the No. 1 spot in American sales for 2011. The Germany…
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12:46pm ET
Investing
GM Ready with Fix for Volt Battery (GM)
After three different cars burst into flames days after a collision, General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) has figured out a way to fix the problem with its hybrid gasoline-electric Chevy Volt. In…
Paul Ausick 6:24am ET
Investing
Toyota Posts Weak China Sales
Sales of Toyota (NYSE: TM) cars and light trucks rose only 4% in China last year to 833,000 The largest Japanese car company faced two hurdles in the People’s Republic. The first is…
4:04pm ET
Investing
24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (F, GM, TM, EMC, GD, GMCR, POT, TIVO, UNF, PRGS, STZ, MON, FDO, LCAV, REE, NFLX, APKT, LPHI)
Markets opened lower today and stayed in negative territory until mid-afternoon. Car makers reported December sales throughout the day, with Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) and General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) both…
11:03am ET
Investing
GM US Sales Up Disappointing 5% For December
GM (NYSE: GM) posted very modest sales in December, up only 5% from the same year in 2010. The No.1 US car company reported that total U.S. sales were 234,351 For the year,…
Douglas A. McIntyre 6:41am ET
Special Report
The Most Popular American Companies in China
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…
6:28am ET
Cars and Drivers
Chrysler Wins the Car Sales War
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…
6:27am ET
Media
Media Digest (1/3/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg
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)…
6:23am ET
Investing
What’s Important in the Financial World (1/2/2101) Exxon Venezula Deal, EU PMI Low
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…
3:35am ET
Investing
Hyundai And Kia Expect Slower Growth
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…
1:11pm ET
Investing
Ford Sells 2 Million Cars in 2011 to U.S. Buyers (F, GM, TM, HMC)
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…
6:28am ET
Retail
Could Sears Be Broken Up?
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…
12:09pm ET
Investing
Analyst Sees Sharp Rise In December Car Sales (GM, F, TM, HMC)
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…
1:06pm ET
Cars and Drivers
The Good & Bad of 8.1% December New Car Sales Growth (GM, F, HMC, TM)
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…
6:35am ET
Investing
The Worst Product Flops of 2011
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…