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Chinese sales help restore General Motors to profit

General Motors car sales in China leapt by 48.5% in the first half of the year as the Detroit firm continued its recovery America’s largest carmaker, General Motors, is selling more vehicles in China than in its home market for the first time in its 102-year history. GM’s auto sales in China leapt by 48.5% to [...]

General Motors plans return to stock market

• Revitalised carmaker anticipates raising up to $15bn• GM’s move should bolster Obama in congressional elections General Motors is gearing up for one of the biggest stock market flotations in US corporate history barely a year after emerging from bankruptcy. It hopes to raise $10bn to $15bn (£6bn to £10bn) and start to pay back government [...]

General Motors abandons search for new chief executive

In a bid to restore stability, car manufacturer gives job to chairman Ed Whitacre General Motors has abandoned a search for a new chief executive, opting instead to give the job on a long-term basis to its chairman, Ed Whitacre, in an effort to restore “stability” to the cash-strapped Detroit car manufacturer. Whitacre, a 68-year-old former telecoms [...]

Swedes suspicious of General Motors in fight for Saab

Fear that GM is sacrificing Saab, a part of Sweden’s manufacturing heritage In the carmaking city of Trollhättan near Sweden’s rugged south-west coast, a fight for the future of Saab is going down to the wire. And in the eyes of many Swedes, it should never have come to this. There is suspicion that an American [...]

Outbreak of optimism in Detroit as motor industry hopes the worst is over

• Chrysler and Fiat join forces to launch smaller, greener cars• Monthly car sales in the US have stabilised It is too early to hang out any bunting but quietly, tentatively, a more upbeat mood is spreading in Detroit’s downtrodden, downsized motor industry. Chrysler set out ambitious plans today to use technology gained in its tie-up with [...]

Wall Street faces double pay blow

• ‘Pay tsar’ to cap salaries at $500,000 at bailed-out firms• Fed to tackle rewards for ‘imprudent risks’ Leading US banks will be subject to a dual crackdown on multimillion dollar pay packets, as the Federal Reserve set out broad plans to scrutinise remuneration and the Obama administration’s so-called “pay tsar” confirmed that salaries will be [...]

Obama administration plans big pay cuts at seven bailout firms

Companies that received most assistance will have to cut salaries of 25 highest-paid executives by about 90% The Obama administration plans to order companies that received huge US government bailouts last year to sharply cut the compensation of their highest paid executives, according to a person familiar with the decision. The seven companies that received the most [...]

General Motors ’stable’ and aiming to repay government loan

• Optimism at GM after action to cut factories, dealerships and staff• Bailed-out US carmaker hopes to start repaying $50bn to Washington The bailed-out US carmaker General Motors has seen its market share “stabilise” and is aiming to shed government support by rejoining the stockmarket in the second half of 2010, slimmed down by the sale [...]

$138bn bail out agreed for Bank of America

The struggling Bank of America today was guaranteed funds to help then through the financial crisis. The Government had to step in today to help the Bank of America as they have seen losses that has never been recorded before. US government have put plans in to place today to allow up to $20 billion [...]