Reuters: Akio Toyoda met with Transportation Secretary LaHood. Reuters: Lloyds posted huge loss driven by bad debts. Reuters: A job creation effort is hung up in Congress again. Reuters: Blackstone (BSX) got commitments for…
Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei was up .2% to 10,128. Toyota (TM) rose slightly. The Hang Seng was up 1% to 20,609. China Unicom (CHU) rose The Shanghai Composite was…
Douglas A. McIntyre Reuters: Coca-Cola (KO) is close to buying its largest bottler. Reuters: Microsoft (NASAQ:MSFT) won court approve to shut down computers that spread spam and viruses. Reuters: Akio Toyoda (TM) apologized to Congress from problems with…
Hyundai has recalled 47,000 of its Sonata sedans to fix door lock problems. It does so in an environment in which American consumers are becoming more and more suspicious of the auto industry.…
Markets in Asia were mixed The Nikkei fell 1.5% to 10,199. Toyota (NYSE: TM) fell. The Hang Seng was off .9% to 20,448. The Bank of China (NYSE: CEO) fell The Shanghai…
Douglas A. McIntyre Consumer Reports released its study of the best vehicles sold in the US. Honda (HMC) finished in first place, Subaru in second, and Toyota (TM) in third. The firm said that it suspended…
The press has pointed out that Akio Toyoda, CEO of Toyota, does not spend a lot of his time out of the office shaking hands and kissing babies the way that his US…
Douglas A. McIntyre The problem with customer satisfaction surveys is that, by their nature, they look back in time and not forward. Bloomberg BusinessWeek announced the results of its customer service poll recently. The project…
Reuters: The $15 billion jobs bill advanced in the Senate. Reuters: Toyota (NYSE:TM) faces a US criminal probe. Reuters: KKR and TPC are close to a deal to buy Morgan Stanley’s (NYSE:MS) share…
Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei fell .5% to 10,352. Toyota (NYSE:TM) and Honda (NYSE:HMC). The Hang Seng rose 1.1% to 20,600. The Shanghai Composite dropped .7% to 2,983. At the…
Toyota (TM) should never have had a chance to be the No.1 car company in the world. It began as one of the small corporations built during the industrialization of post-WWII Japan. It…
“Toyota Lied” is a good headline and catchy enough to get a reader to look further into a story. In this case catchy is not where it ends. According to The Wall…
Douglas A. McIntyre By Douglas A. McIntyre Yet another damaging revelation has undercut Toyota’s (TM) reputation for disclosing safety issues and the fixing potentially dangerous problems with its cars. The latest twist has a new…
Douglas A. McIntyre Reuters: Obama plans to pressure health insurance prices as part of new reforms. Reuters: A Toyota (TM) memo shows the company worked to keep the costs of one of its…
Markets in Asia were mostly higher The Nikkei rose 2.7% to 10,400. Sony (NYSE:SNE) and Toyota (NYSE:TM) rose The Hang Seng was higher by 2.5%. The Shanghai Composite dropped .5% to 3,003.…