Companies locked in a struggle to remain viable and maintain their profits and sales sometimes begin to run out of customers. This happened to GM (NYSE: GM), which had a 50% share…
Americans are used to being No.1 in nearly all the world’s businesses, and athletic endeavors. The foundation of that certainly began to erode in the 1970’s, when much of America’s manufacturing industry…
Honda Motor (NYSE: HMC) announced it third quarter earnings and raised it full-year net income forecast to 530 billion yen from 500 billion. Honda said its optimism was based on US sales…
Douglas A. McIntyre Barai Capital may be part of the insider trading investigation. (WSJ) Honda (NYSE: HMC) expects higher profits as its Q3 topped forecasts. (Reuters) A Florida judge could say that part of the…
GM (NYSE: GM) is supposed to be a badly crippled giant. Toyota (NYSE: TM) is the global car company with the most efficient manufacturing plants, the highest quality cars and the strongest…
RockTenn (NYSE: RKT) will buy Smirft-Stone (NYSE: SSCN) for $3.5 billion. (Reuters) Assets in the Treasury’s toxic asset fund rose 27% in value last year to $6.3 billion. (Reuters) China will pass…
China displaced the US in 2009 as the world’s largest car market, and the number of Chinese auto buyers went up in 2010. Chinese buyers purchased 13.6 million vehicles in 2009 and…
At the annual United Nations sessions on climate issues in Cancun, US energy secretary Steven Chu predicted that electric vehicles powered by batteries will be able to compete more effectively with petroleum-burning…
German automaker Volkswagen AG (OTC: VLKAY) doesn’t exactly say that it wants to be the world’s largest carmaker. Instead it says that it plans “to make Volkswagen the world’s most future-proof automotive…
Government Motors is now back to being General Motors (NYSE: GM). The taxpayer will start to recollect some of the bailout money, although shares would have to be far far higher for…
The new performance scorecard from Truecar.com which it describes as how it “measures the overall performance of a brand or manufacturer based on pricing, sales, incentives, customer loyalty, market share, and inventory…
GM has increased the price per share of its IPO from about $26 to nearly $33 and ratcheted up the number of shares it will offer by 30% to 478 million shares,…
BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP) abandoned its bid for Potah (NYSE: POT) and said it would begin a $4.2 billion buyback. (Reuters) SAIC has agreed to take a stake in the GM IPO.…
A lawsuit alleges that Toyota Motor (NYSE: TM) secretly bought problem cars. (Reuters) Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) earnings were better than expected. (Reuters) The AIA IPO moved up 17% on the Hong Kong…
Nissan’s flagship brand is Infiniti which competes with BMW, Mercedes, the Lexus brand of Toyota (NYSE: TM), and the Acura brand of Honda (NYSE: HMC). The Cadillac brand of GM needs to…
