Sale of Toyota (TM) vehicles in the US fell 4.4% to 213,043. The figure reflects one fewer selling day in September 2007 compared with the same month a year ago. The new…
Douglas A. McIntyre Yahoo! (YHOO) is launching a new version of its search engine. The new product will bring the user results "incorporate a broader array of potential sources, such as videos or pages of…
Auto research firm Edmunds and other analysts say Ford’s (F) sales will drop as much as 18% in September. As one analyst quoted at MarketWatch said "New cars and trucks from other…
Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei fell .3% to 16,786. Canon (CAJ) rose 2.6% to 6270. NTT (NTT) rose 1.7% to 537000. Toyota (TM) rose 1.3% to 6780. The Hang Seng…
Douglas A. McIntyre GM (GM) can cut all of the costs it wants to, and get a world class contract with the UAW. And, Ford (F) can follow suit. But, if they can’t sell cars,…
The rally in GM’s (GM) stock was short-lived. Actually, it is dead. The company’s shares did not even reach a 52-week high after news of it big settlement with the UAW. Wall…
Markets in Asia rose. The Nikkei was up 2.4% to 16,832. Hitachi (HIT) was up 7% to 750. Toyota (TM() was up 1.6% to 6690. The Hang Seng rose 2.4% to 27,066.…
Douglas A. McIntyre The FT writes that Nintendo is now the No.2 market cap company in Japan, trailing only Toyota (TM). While this may say something about the company’s video game platform sales lead over…
According to Reuters, Toyota (TM) says that its sales in the US may not rise this month. Reuters writes that Microsoft (MSFT) will replace a number of damaged disks from its new…
Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei rose .6% to 16,402. NEC (NIPNY) rose 1.4% to 555. Toyota (TM) rose 1.2% to 6640. The Hang Seng fell .9% to 26,316. China Construction…
Douglas A. McIntyre Alan Mulally of Ford (F) is sticking to his forecast that the company will be profitable in 2009. But, according to Reuters, he admits that the mortgage crisis and economic slowdown could…
It is easy to point to Chinese cars as being low-quality and cheap. But, in place like Africa and Latin America, that may not be such a bad thing. And, the US,…
Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei fell .6% to 16,313. Sony (SNE) fell 1.8% to 5340. Toyota (TM) fell 1.9% to 6650. The Hang Seng rose .5% to 25,819. China Petroluem…
Markets in Asia were up sharply. The Nikkei rose 3.7% to 16,382. NEC (NIPNY) was up 4.5% to 559. Sony (SNE) was up 3.6% to 5490. Toyota (TM) was up 4.9% to…
GM (GM) suffered an analyst downgrade today. Goldman Sachs moved the shares from "buy" to "neutral". In a way, it is a surprise that it did not happen sooner. On September 10,…