Ford (F) may have cut costs to the point where the company cannot even operate properly anymore, the number of people in product development, management and marketing has gone so low. That…
If the segment of tech which markets to large businesses was supposed to be one of the last bastions of earnings safety, it has just fallen. SAP (SAP), the second largest enterprise…
Perhaps the Fed and the Treasury have saved the banking and brokerage industries. The Fed has certainly provided hundreds of billions of dollars at its emergency window and Paulson has his $700…
General Motors (GM) delivered 284,300 vehicles in September. Sales were down 16% from the same month last year. Car sales fell 10% to just over 118,000. Light trucks were off 19%. Cadillac did…
Hope dies hard. A lot of Wall St. analysts still think that earnings from the S&P 500 companies will be up in aggregate in Q4 2008 compared with the same quarter last…
Detroit is getting its $25 billion in loan guarantees from the federal government. Ford (F), GM (GM), and Chrysler did not have access to enough capital to upgrade their plants without outside…
Up until recently there has been a horse race for who is the largest seller of cars in China. GM (GM) and VW traded places from quarter to quarter. Unfortunately for GM…
According to Reuters, talks over a US bailout of banks broke down and will begin again today. Reuters reports that Washington Mutual (WM) became the largest bank failure in US history. Many…
GM (GM) is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. Cake and candles. It has even introduced its new Volt electric car, which it says is the future of the company. In the…
Douglas A. McIntyre According to Reuters, Bush called an emergency meeting of Congressional leaders to push through bank bailout legislation. Reuters reports that Goldman Sachs (GS) and Morgan Stanley (MS) are preparing to take advantage…
Between the credit markets and consumer spending, GM (GM) is caught in a vise. The car company needs more money and Congress seems less inclined with each passing day to want to…
Douglas A. McIntyre The financial system is looking for a form of what theologians call "universal salvation". What began as a simple piece of legislation to get $700 billion into the banking industry by the…
According to Reuters, Wilbur Ross say the bailout package does not address the core of problem which is mortgage payments. Reuters writes that the National Retail Federation says that this will be…
General Motors (GM) said on Friday that it will draw down $3.5 billion on the $4.5 billion line of credit it put in place with JPMorgan Chase (JPM) and Citigroup (C) back…
According to Reuters, Goldman Sachs (GS) and Morgan Stanley (MS) will give up their investment banking status and become bank holding companies to have access to the government’s proposed $700 billion bailout…