JP Morgan (NYSE: JPM) sells $25 billion in profitable securities to offset its trade debacle. (Reuters) The SEC examines JP Morgan financial reports. (Reuters) Marubeni buys U.S. grain company Gavilon Holdings for $3.6 billion.…
Hyundai, and its sister brand Kia, have had the hottest selling cars in the American market since the recession began. The rational for this is that the South Korean company delivered high-quality…
The World Bank’s new “East Asia and Pacific Economic Update” forecasts that China’s GDP growth will only be 8.2% in 2012, which is a substantial come down for a nation that has grown…
Fiat and Mazda will build a small convertible together. Fiat is the controlling shareholder of Chrysler. The deal is an example of how large car companies which face slow sales in Europe…
24/7 Wall St. asked CoreBrand to identify America’s hottest brands. We wanted to know the biggest brands that were the best known and most well regarded. Read: America’s Hottest Brands Generally, most…
Over the past 12 months, the best performing car maker stock is — drum roll — Tesla Motors Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA). Shares in the maker of electric vehicles (EVs) are up more…
The luxury car market around the world continues to explode as the relatively small portion of the globe’s population which is rich consumer at extraordinary levels. VW reports that its goal to…
Sony (NYSE: SNE) said it would finally turn around is prospects and make money in the next year. Bumbling CEO Sir Howard Stringer is gone. Sony’s core problems are not. It is still…
After a three-year period in which Toyota (NYSE: TM) recalled more than eight million cars worldwide for problems that included faulty accelerators, as well as natural disasters in Japan and Thailand that…
April car sales data are out, and they are not cause for celebration. Though sales are up 2% overall from last April, they have cooled somewhat since the February and March run. There…
Higher revenues and profits in its North American region boosted first-quarter results at Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F). The company posted EPS of $0.18, well above the consensus estimate of $0.08, on…
Auto industry research firm truecar.com released its sales and incentives forecast for April today, and the company expects the sales forecast to translate to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of new car…
The largest car dealership in the US, AutoNation Inc. (NYSE: AN) reported earnings this morning for the first quarter. The company posted EPS of $0.56, an all-time high, on revenue of $3.7…
Car sales by gender in 2011 pretty much reflect what you’d expect. Men prefer fast cars and big SUVs and pickup trucks. Women favor smaller, more fuel efficient vehicles. Men buy 92.5%…
Among the more developed countries of Asia — China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan — the top global brand is Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) in three and trails only a local brand…
