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…
Four market markers involved in the Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) IPO lose $100 million combined. (Reuters) EU concerns push the euro to close to a two-year low. (Reuters) Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) will…
Toyota (NYSE: TM) announced it would move more aggressively into emerging markets. The WSJ reports that Toyota, Japan’s biggest car maker by volume, plans to sell more than 1 million subcompacts in…
Douglas A. McIntyre 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…
The Senate Banking Committee soon will examine and cross-examine JP Morgan (NYSE: JPM) CEO Jamie Dimon. It will be a chance for politicians to say how irresponsible large financial firms are, how they trade for…
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…
The major US stock indexes opened sharply lower again this morning as investors consider Greece’s commitment to the austerity measures it had previously agreed to. Renegotiating the deal seems out of the…
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…
Coalition talks in Greece are unlikely to create a new government, raising the chance Greece could leave the eurozone. (Reuters) GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: GSK) will launch a takeover of Human Genome Sciences (NASDAQ:…
The major US stock indexes opened sharply lower this morning as weak performance in the European markets as traders try to figure out what last weekend’s elections mean. Crude oil was also…
The government of Spain got lucky. It planned to raise over 2 billion euros in debt. The amount sold was more than that — 2.5 billion. The international capital markets ignored Spain’s…
