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Friday, November 21, 2008

Bailout door still open for automakers

Business | By Jim Puzzanghera and Richard Simon | 12:00AM, November 21
Congressional leaders agreed Thursday to give Detroit automakers more time to make their case for a $25-billion emergency bailout, but they demanded that General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co. Read more
 

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Big 3 fail to close deal on bailout

Business | By Jim Puzzanghera and Richard Simon | November 20, 2008
Embattled U.S. automakers added a new entry to their list of troubles Wednesday: executive jet travel. Read more
 

Chinese carmakers also seek support

Business | By Don Lee | November 20, 2008
America’s Big Three aren’t the only carmakers turning to government with hat in hand. Read more
 

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Big 3 plead for aid, get no traction

Business | By Jim Puzzanghera and Richard Simon | November 19, 2008
Chief executives of the nation’s once-mighty Big Three automakers came to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to plead for $25 billion in federal aid, but the idea of bailing out Detroit has run into a wall of skepticism from a broad cross-section of lawmakers concerned about the environment, unions and Japanese auto plants in their home states. Read more
 

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Bumpy road for Detroit aid plan

Business | By Jim Puzzanghera and Richard Simon | November 18, 2008
Leading Democrats in Congress unveiled plans Monday to help financially troubled U.S. automakers with $25 billion in emergency loans as lawmakers prepared for a showdown over expanding the government’s role in shoring up the economy. Read more
 

Monday, November 17, 2008

Pileup foreseen if Big 3 crash

Business | By Ken Bensinger and Richard Simon | November 17, 2008
Ford Motor Co.’s F-150 pickup is the top-selling vehicle in America with more than 436,000 purchased through October. Read more
 

Sunday, November 16, 2008

Bail out Big Three? Sure, with conditions

Business | By David Lazarus | November 16, 2008
As Glendale attorney Bruce Ehrlich filled up his gas tank in Los Angeles last week, he told me he wasn’t happy about the prospect of a multibillion-dollar bailout of the U.S. auto industry. Read more
 

Friday, November 14, 2008

Strict conditions almost certain for automaker bailout

Business | By Jim Puzzanghera, Martin Zimmerman, and Richard Simon | November 14, 2008
With pressure rising for the government to save U.S. automakers from the financial junkyard, the question is fast becoming: Should General Motors, Ford and Chrysler simply get infusions of tax dollars? Read more
 

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Carmakers’ slowdown takes the shine off auto shows

Business | By Ken Bensinger | November 12, 2008
Facing their worst sales in decades, carmakers are cutting spending on auto shows, the industry’s traditional customer-courtship event. Read more
 

House to vote on auto aid plan

Business | November 12, 2008
The House will convene next week to vote on a plan to provide emergency cash to the nation’s battered automobile industry, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) said Tuesday, but a federal bailout for Detroit faces an uphill battle in the Senate and an uncertain fate at the White House. Read more
 

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

GM shares plunge on forecast they could soon be worthless

Business | By Ken Bensinger | November 11, 2008
Shares in General Motors Corp. Read more
 

Sunday, November 9, 2008

More aid sought for automakers

National | By Deb Riechmann | November 9, 2008
Democratic leaders in Congress asked the Bush administration on Saturday to provide more aid to the struggling auto industry, which is bleeding cash and jobs. Read more
 

Saturday, November 8, 2008

GM, low on cash, seeks aid

Business | By Ken Bensinger and Martin Zimmerman | November 8, 2008
Posting another multibillion-dollar quarterly loss Friday, General Motors Corp. Read more
 

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

The end of the road for U.S. carmakers?

Business | By Ken Bensinger | October 28, 2008
Are the Big Three worth saving? Read more
 

Saturday, October 25, 2008

Tesla may lay off 24% of staff

Business | By Ken Bensinger | October 25, 2008
Struggling to raise money amid the financial crisis, electric carmaker Telsa Motors Inc. Read more
 

Saturday, October 18, 2008

A 64-mpg Ford? Only in Europe

Business | By Ken Bensinger | October 18, 2008
Next month in Britain, Ford Motor Co. Read more
 

Friday, October 10, 2008

GM, Ford may be just too big to fail

Business | By Ken Bensinger | October 10, 2008
With sales of General Motors and Ford vehicles down more than 17% this year and the companies’ stock prices at lows not seen in decades, one might expect the bankruptcy vultures to be circling over Detroit. Read more
 

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

For automakers, falling oil prices could prove a blessing – or a curse

Business | By Ken Bensinger | October 7, 2008
The slumping price of oil has given carmakers a real head scratcher: Is this good or bad news? Read more
 

Friday, October 3, 2008

Electrics light up Paris auto show

Business | By Dan Neil | October 3, 2008
Either Renault Executive Vice Chairman Patrick Pelata had too much champagne, or he knows something we don’t. Read more
 

Saturday, September 27, 2008

GM expects the Volt to be 100-mpg certified

Business | By Jeff Green | September 27, 2008
General Motors Corp. Read more
 
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