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Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2005
... energy companies fell as oil prices slipped below $US60 a barrel. Also weighing on the blue-chip Dow average was General Motors after the company's chief financial officer John Devine stepped down on Tuesday. The Dow Jones industrial average was down ...

General Motors mortgages driving down to Australia

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2005
General Motors Acceptance Corp will open a mortgage funding business in Australia during the first quarter of 2006. Few details of GMAC's business plan are clear, however the company has been hiring staff and working with marketers on its plans. As ...

Marketwrap

... economy fanned worries the Federal Reserve would keep raising interest rates while declines in automakers' like General Motors stemmed from investor concerns about weak November sales, which will be reported tomorrow. The Dow Jones industrial average ...

Pension funds killing GM

Pension fund and health care costs for General Motors (GM) in the US add $A5,000 to the cost of each car, almost sealing the fate of the giant car maker. After earlier reports by Financial Standard that the pension fund burden for GM is one of the factors ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2005
... of Statistics releases average weekly earnings NEW YORK - US blue-chip stocks ended lower, hurt by a sell-off in General Motors shares over worries about the automotive sector. But the broader market was little changed following a tame inflation report. ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2005
... The Nasdaq Composite Index was up 20.87 points at 2196.68. The turnaround in the Dow average came after shares of General Motors had dropped to a 23-year low. LONDON - Britain's top shares ended lower as falls by key stocks such as oil giant BP and mobile ...

Market Wrap

... boosted by gains in Altria after the US Supreme Court's favorable ruling for the tobacco industry and a rally in General Motors shares following a union deal to cut health-care costs. After the closing bell, shares of IBM jumped 1.8 per cent on the Inet ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 OCT 2005
... shareholders. NEW YORK - US stocks slid with the Dow and S&P 500 hitting their lowest level in about five months, after General Motors said auto parts supplier Delphi's bankruptcy filing could cost it as much as $12 billion. The Nasdaq Composite Index ...

Leading US companies in pension funding crisis; CSFB

... 320 in 2003. The companies facing a funding crisis read like a who's who of corporate America. Zion highlights General Motors at the top of the list of the 10 companies that could report the biggest dollar decline in their pension plans this year, followed ...

General Motors' financier to enter landmark Chinese joint venture

General Motors Acceptance Corporation (GMAC) has become the first automotive financier to apply for a licence to conduct business in China, the vice president of GMAC's Asia Pacific operations Carlos Ribeiro has announced. "GMAC is the first automotive ...