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Does The Bank of Japan Have Enough Juice To Overcome Nagging Deflation?

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:12:11 GMT

The Bank of Japan (BOJ) yesterday (Tuesday) took steps to preserve a fragile economic recovery by pumping more short-term funds into the nation’s banking system. However, many analysts are worried that the central bank didn’t do enough to put a ceiling on the yen, and prop up its ailing corporate sector.[More...]

Diversify Away With EFA!

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:55:58 GMT

Diversify Your Portfolio Outside the US Asset allocation is the most influential factor on investment outcome. There have been growing signs that the worst of the global crisis might have passed. While the US dollar may continue to weaken and the US loses significance in the global landscape, an allocation to other developed markets is deemed necessary. After all, 76% of global GDP is outside the US.[More...]

Toyota Joins Ford And Swings To A Surprise Profit

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:23:49 GMT

“This seems to be the quarter when automakers are turning in a better than expected numbers. As with many other automakers, here is what Toyota had today, a surprise profit in its quarterly earnings released early this morning, mid morning in Japan, a profit of $242 million that’s down 84% from the quarter a year ago. Sales, $50 billion, down 24%.[More...]

Toyota (TM) Launches New Model At Home, Plans Expansion Into Korean Market

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:49:25 GMT

Toyota Motor Corp. (ADR NYSE: TM), the world’s largest automaker, today (Tuesday) launched efforts to maintain its leadership position by introducing a new hybrid model in Japan and expanding into the Korean market where it will face stiff competition from Hyundai Motor Co. Ltd. (PINK: HYMLF).[More...]

Toyota's Emerging-Market Car

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:17:49 GMT

Toyota Motor (TM) has teamed up with its subsidiary Daihatsu to develop a compact car for emerging markets. The car, which would be priced under 1 million ($11,000) will be offered for sale in India, Brazil, China and other markets in the first half of the next decade.[More...]

Toyota (TM) Attractive Prospects And Global Positioning

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:19:57 GMT

The car maker from Japan, the country's largest, suffered a drop in August output, but the pride of Toyota City remains primed to continue its automotive leadership worldwide. Global output from Toyota (TM) fell around 9% year over year, but conditions economically are more stable and the additions of government programs, such as the US Cash for Clunkers and Japan's subsidy program, are helping efficient automakers move more units.[More...]

Toyota (TM) Faces Possible Import Ban Over Paice’s Patent Suit

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 23:56:10 GMT

The bankruptcies of Chrysler Group LLC and General Motors Corp. provided Toyota Motor Corp. (NYSE ADR: TM) with an unparalleled opportunity to increase U.S. market share. But now patent-infringement claims could result in a U.S. import ban on some of the company’s most popular hybrid cars.[More...]

August Auto Sales Up – What It Means For Sirius XM (Nasdaq: SIRI)

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:36:15 GMT

August 2009 brought with it the peak in auto sales in the United States. For satellite radio, which relies heavily on the auto sector for subscribers, the news may bring a sigh of relief, but there are many things to consider.[More...]

Weekly Credit Summary: August 28

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 21:57:29 GMT

Credit underperformed equities this week as single-name tighteners edged wideners by four-to-three leaving indices (especially HY) underperforming intrinsics in general. CONSumer and ENRG names underperformed as TMT and FINLs were best with INDUstrials mixed. Financials outperformed non-financials but the strength in the former was more at the tails of the distribution while the weakness in the latter was more broad-based.[More...]

Cash For Clunkers: Review

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:51:24 GMT

Its time now to review the $3 billion cash incentive program -- Car Allowance Rebate System (CARS), informally known as "Cash for Clunkers" -- which officially ended Tuesday. The program, launched by the U.S. Government in late July, allowed consumers to trade in their old gas-guzzling cars and trucks with a mileage of 18 miles per gallon (mpg) or less for a value of up to $3,500–$4,500.[More...]

GM, Chinese partner join forces in India

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:48:00 GMT

BEIJING - General Motors Co. and its main Chinese partner announced a venture Friday to sell vehicles in India, uniting in the two fastest-growing car markets in a deal that reflects GM's reduced status as a global automaker.
As part of the deal, GM gave majority ownership of its main China joint venture to Shanghai Automotive Industries Corp., which is to invest up to $350 million in the India initiative.
GM has struggled for market share in India's fast-growing car market and a company official said bringing in SAIC and its investment meant the Indian venture could develop more quickly.

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Suzuki Motor to withdraw from Canadian joint venture with GM

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:46:00 GMT

Dec. 4--HAMAMATSU -- Suzuki Motor Corp. said Friday it has agreed to withdraw from a joint car manufacturing venture in Canada with General Motors Co., marking an end to GM's production ties with Japanese carmakers.
The withdrawal follows a similar decision by the U.S. automaker to end vehicle production with Toyota Motor Corp. at their 25-year-old joint manufacturing plant in California after it emerged from bankruptcy in June.
Suzuki and GM Canada founded the joint venture, CAMI Automotive Inc., in Ontario in 1986, and it started production of compact cars and sport utility vehicles for the North American market in 1989 including the Suzuki Swift and the Chevrolet Metro.

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GM, Chinese partner join forces in India

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:51:00 GMT

BEIJING - General Motors Co. and its main Chinese partner announced a venture Friday to sell vehicles in India, uniting in the two fastest-growing car markets in a deal that reflects GM's reduced status as a global automaker.
As part of the deal, GM gave majority ownership of its main China joint venture to Shanghai Automotive Industries Corp., which is to invest up to $350 million in the India initiative.
GM has struggled for market share in India's fast-growing car market and a company official said bringing in SAIC and its investment meant the Indian venture could develop more quickly.

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GM, Chinese partner join forces in India

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:45:00 GMT

BEIJING - General Motors Co. and its main Chinese partner announced a venture Friday to sell vehicles in India, uniting in the two fastest-growing car markets in a deal that reflects GM's reduced status as a global automaker.
As part of the deal, GM gave majority ownership of its main China joint venture to Shanghai Automotive Industries Corp., which is to invest up to $350 million in the India initiative.
"We have an outstanding relationship with SAIC," said Nick Reilly, president of GM's international operations, in a conference call with reporters.

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Suzuki, General Motors to end Canada partnership

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 07:45:00 GMT

TOKYO - General Motors Co. and Suzuki Motor Corp. have agreed to end their automaking joint venture in Canada, leaving GM without a Japanese production partner after also severing manufacturing links with Toyota.
Suzuki said Friday will sell its 50 percent stake in CAMI Automotive Inc. to GM for an undisclosed price, giving the U.S. automaker full control of the company.
GM ended its California joint venture with Toyota Motor Corp., the world's No.

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Automakers pushing smaller, cheaper, greener at L.A. Auto Show

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:50:00 GMT

Dec. 3--The Los Angeles Auto Show opens Friday with an unspoken theme: Less is More.
Wednesday, the vehicle unveilings on the first of the L.A. Auto Show's two media preview days were as splashy as ever, but almost every major manufacturer highlighted the smallest of its new or updated models.
This is the first major U.S. auto show since General Motors and Chrysler plunged into bankruptcy amid the credit squeeze and general economic downturn.

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Plan to make L.A. 'plug-in ready' laid out

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:46:00 GMT

Dec. 2--Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced a plan Tuesday to pave the way for a rush of new electric cars in 2010-11 by expanding Southern California's network of charging stations and offering incentives to drivers of the environment-friendly vehicles.
Under the agreement among government and private entities, the region's 400 existing electric-vehicle charging stations would be upgraded, and 100 would be added within a year after the adoption of new federal charging standards, expected to be issued in mid-2010.
Villaraigosa said the plan highlights Southern California's effort to turn the car capital of the world into "the electric-vehicle capital of the world."

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Chart: November auto sales

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:10:00 GMT

Dec. 2--November auto sales U.S. light-vehicles sales totals, individual automaker results and market share for November compared with November 2008.
NOVEMBER 2009 Maker volume % change from 2008 % mkt share YTD volume % change from 2008 YTD % mkt share GM 150,676 -1.8% 20.2% 1,864,211 -31.8% 19.8% Toyota 133,700 2.6% 17.9% 1,582,289 -23.8% 16.8% Ford 122,846 0.1% 16.4% 1,493,533 -18.9% 15.9% Honda 74,003 -2.9% 9.9% 1,043,641 -22.3% 11.1% Chrysler 63,560 -25.5% 8.5% 844,879 -38.0% 9.0% Nissan 56,288 20.8% 7.5% 696,699 -21.7% 7.4% Hyundai 28,045 45.9% 3.8% 401,267 6.2% 4.3% Volkswagen 23,205 8.7% 3.1% 268,285 -7.1% 2.9% BMW 18,298 -7.6% 2.4% 218,419 -22.5% 2.3% Kia 17,955 18.3% 2.4% 279,015 7.8% 3.0% Subaru 16,988 23.9% 2.3% 193,578 13.6% 2.1% Mercedes-Benz 16,832 19.3% 2.3% 170,545 -17.5% 1.8% Mazda 14,255 0.9% 1.9% 189,512 -23.0% 2.0% Jaguar/Land Rover 3,319 20.5% 0.4% 33,420 -18.3% 0.4% Mitsubishi 2,925 -42.6% 0.4% 49,631 -46.5% 0.5% Porsche 1,626 18.0% 0.2% 17,578 -26.4% 0.2% Suzuki 1,540 -52.1% 0.2% 36,810 -54.7% 0.4% Smart USA 649 -65.6% 0.1% 13,731 -38.4% 0.1% Ferrari 118 -13.9% 0.0% 1,249 -15.6% 0.0% Maserati 100 -36.7% 0.0% 1,160 -48.3% 0.0% Isuzu 0 -100% 0.0% 165 -96.4% 0.0% TOTAL 746,928 1% 100% 9,399,617 -23.9% 100% GM includes Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC, Hummer, Pontiac, Saab and Saturn.
Ford includes Lincoln, Mercury and Volvo.

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Deflation snarls Japan's economy

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:50:00 GMT

TOKYO -- Japan got word Friday that prices fell again in October, just as a surging yen threatens to worsen the deflation that is undermining the country's fragile economy.
The core consumer price index, which excludes volatile fresh food, retreated at a near-record pace of 2.2 percent from a year earlier, the government said.
Prices have now fallen for eight straight months -- a trend that the government highlighted last week for the first time in three years.

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Toyota to make new brake system standard

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:08:00 GMT

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The Future of the Natural Gas Vehicles Market

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:46:00 GMT

MarketResearch.com has announced the addition of Pike Research's new report "Natural Gas Vehicles," to their collection of Automotive market reports.
Natural Gas Vehicle technology is widely available and has been available for purchase in most regions of the world for decades.
In regions where NGVs have strong market performance, adoption is largely due to a combination of inexpensive natural gas, a large number of existing refueling stations, and government subsidies of vehicles, fuel, and infrastructure.

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The Japan Equity Fund Announces Third Quarter Earnings

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:49:00 GMT

The Japan Equity Fund, Inc. (NYSE: JEQ), a closed-end management investment company, today announced its performance results for the three months ended July 31, 2009, the third quarter of its 2009 fiscal year.
As a result, the net realized and unrealized gain were approximately U.S. $9,238,000 (equivalent to a gain of U.S. $0.64 per share) for the nine months ended July 31, 2009.
In comparison, during the quarter ended July 31, 2008, the Fund incurred a net investment loss of approximately U.S. $59,000 (equivalent to a loss of less than U.S. $0.01 per share) resulting in net investment income for the nine-month period of approximately U.S. $376,000 (equivalent to income of U.S. $0.03 per share).

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/C O R R E C T I O N -- Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc./

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:34:00 GMT

In the news release, Toyota to Add North American Capacity for Four-Cylinder Engines, issued 21-Aug-2009 by Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. over PR Newswire, we are advised by the company that the fifth paragraph, first sentence, should read "... Woodstock, Ontario plant..." rather than "...Cambridge, Ontario plant..." as originally issued inadvertently. The complete, corrected release follows:[More...]

Toyota to Add North American Capacity for Four-Cylinder Engines

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:55:00 GMT

Toyota will add capacity at its engine plant in Huntsville, Ala. to increase North American production of four-cylinder engines. The expansion will allow Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Alabama to produce 216,000 four-cylinder engines annually. Production will begin by summer 2011.[More...]

Toyota Named Official Vehicle of Indianapolis Colts

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:03:00 GMT

Toyota today became the Official Vehicle of the Indianapolis Colts for the 2009 - 2010 football season.[More...]

ParagonReport.Com Complimentary Market Update on BCS, TM, CIT and DOW

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:50:00 GMT

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Toyota Motor Sales Announces Annual Subscription Pricing for Safety Connect(TM)

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:31:00 GMT

Toyota Motor Sales , USA, Inc. today announced today the annual subscription price for its all-new, proprietary telematics system, Safety Connect. The system will soon be an available option on the all-new MY10 Prius.[More...]

Toyota Motor Sales Announces Lexus Enform(TM) with Safety Connect(TM) Available on Select 2010 Lexus Models

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:22:00 GMT

Toyota Motor Sales , USA, Inc. today announced that its all-new, proprietary telematics system, Lexus Enform with Safety Connect, will soon be available on additional select 2010 Lexus models.[More...]

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Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:18:00 GMT

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Friday's News Makers - CarMax, Toyota, Cephalon, Harley Davidson, Electronic Arts; Research by InvestorSoup.com

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:55:00 GMT

Investment opinion and research company InvestorSoup.com announces the availability of free, detailed stock alerts on active stocks in today's news. Each stock alert highlights recent news, trading activity, technical analysis and relevant market research you need to know.[More...]