Word: gm
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...Rangasamy, referring to Canada's trade deficit. He expects the country's balance of trade to begin improving in the fourth quarter, with annualized GDP growth of 2.5% and 2.1% in Canada and the U.S., respectively. That sounds promising, but it's largely predicated on a successful restructuring of GM and Chrysler and a rebound in consumer confidence in Canada and the U.S. If these prickly issues do not show signs of real improvement, it's likely that the Canadian and U.S. economies will continue to shrink, or at best move sideways. (See pictures of retailers that have gone...
...just the banking-stock group that benefits by offloading its weaklings. A stock sector known as "consumer discretionary," which includes everything from automakers to fast-food retailers, is enjoying a more bullish earnings outlook too, thanks - you guessed it - to the dropping of GM stock, which had been a load of lead on the sector's profitability. As a result of offloading GM, earnings for the group are expected to rise...
...Investors may respond with huge cheers to the new earnings forecasts, but Goldman Sachs is not so ebullient. In fact, the firm goes to great lengths to point out the distortions to its growth projections and adds that without the GM effect, the consumer-discretionary stock group would see a far more modest 17% growth next year - not bad, but no blowout...
...Read "GM's New Ad Campaign: Will It Restart the Engines...
...different than, say, the kinds of erasures of equity we saw over decades in places such as Detroit. The difference this time, of course, being that the Detroits of the world will benefit, as will our health, our environment and general quality of life. (See pictures of GM's Eight Great Hopes...