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...Even worse, in the eyes of Obama's task force, is that GM was immodest in its assumptions. For instance, GM had forecast a market-share loss of 0.3% per year until 2014. The task force noted that GM has been losing market share at a rate of 0.7% per year for the past 30 years - and GM was planning to drop brands and nameplates. The task force had no reason to think that GM could gain share, and its sales rate proved that point. Industry-wide, March auto sales were down 40% on a seasonally adjusted basis...
...drivers is increasing. The U.S. population is advancing at a clip of 1% per year. But more important, the baby-boom echo is getting its wheels. Between immigration and the offspring of boomers now asking for the car keys, at least 2 million new drivers are entering the market every year. That invariably adds to demand...
What if the G-20 is like the stock market four weeks ago? No one thought the market would go up over 20% in less than five weeks. Many people did not think it would...
Iqbal Hussein feels like a marked man. An itinerant laborer from rural Khulna district in Bangladesh, he now scraps for odd jobs in a market town 19 miles (30 km) south of Malaysia's capital, Kuala Lumpur. Last year, he agreed to pay a recruitment agency $2,400 to win a position on the production line of an auto parts manufacturer. But in the wake of the financial crisis, that job is gone, and Hussein, like hundreds of thousands of migrant workers around the world, is stranded far from home, saddled with debts that will take years to repay...
...some ways, the world has become accustomed to the United States being a voracious consumer market and the engine that drives a lot of economic growth worldwide," Obama said, hinting that this position may not be sustainable. "We're going to have to take into account a whole host of factors that can increase our savings rate and start dealing with our long-term fiscal position as well as our current account deficits." (See pictures of the global financial crisis...