It says a lot when sales of Toyota’s (TM) are actually falling. In March, vehicle sales for the big Japanese company fell 10.3% in the US market to 217,730, Total passenger car…
Markets in Asia were higher. The Nikkei moved up 1.7% to 13,820. KDDI was up 2.6% to 639000. Toyota (TM) was up 2.5% to 5240. The Hang Seng was up 2.1% to…
Douglas A. McIntyre New research out reveals that GM (NYSE:GM) has made a sharp and powerful turn to the internet for marketing. A new comScore survey shows that in January, GM delivered nearly 1.7 billion…
Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei fell .3% to 12,707. NTT (NTT) rose 2.8% to 444000. Toyota (TM) fell 1.5% to 5260. The Hang Seng rose .9% to 22,674. China Netcom…
Douglas A. McIntyre Markets in Asia were mixed and Hong Kong was closed for a holiday. The Nikkei fell a fraction to 12,480. Toyota (TM) was up 1% to 5270. Yahoo Japan was up 2.5%…
Douglas A. McIntyre No matter how much Detroit would like to change the math, the total always adds to 100%. Over the course of the last week, management from GM (NYSE:GM), Ford (NYSE:F), and Chrysler…
When the most powerful company in an industry says it won’t makes it numbers, the ripples are bound to look like storm-driven waves. Toyota (TM), for so long certain that it would…
According to Reuters, the war between Northrop Grumman (NOC) and Boeing (BA) is now going on in Congress and the public. Reuters says Dell (DELL) will buy $23 billion of components in…
Ford (NYSE:F) is launching a mad new ad campaign with the tag-line "Ford. Drive One". The company is working with it local dealers to get them to push the same message. According…
Markets in Asia fell sharply. The Nikkei was off 3.7% to 11.788. Sony (NYSE: SNE) was off 5.7% to 3960. Toyota (NYS: TM) was down 5.1% to 4830. The Hang Seng was…
Those rummaging through the garbage of 52-week low lists are usually bottom-fishing investors or desperate CEOs. But, the list is so broad that it has become a tableau of the market as…
Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei fell 1.5% to 12,242. Sony (SNE) was off 2.3% to 4200. Toyota (TM) was off 3.1% to 5090. The Hang Seng roes .6% to 22,427.…
Toyota (NYSE: TM) says it expects car sales in North America to stay about the same as they were in 2007. That would man around 16 million units sold. "I believe U.S.…
Douglas A. McIntyre According to Reuters, Paulson will try to tighten rules at the state and federal levels to tighten mortgage standards. Reuters writes that Carlyle Capital was unable to reach a deal with it…
Bold words. VW says that by 2010 it can produce 10 million vehicles and pass Toyota (NYSE: TM) and GM (NYSE: GM) as the world’s largest car company. According to the Times…