New orders for manufactured goods like cars and planes fell unexpectedly for a second straight month in June, posting the largest drop since August in a sign economic recovery cooled in the second quarter.
More than 80 percent of the 532 French winemakers surveyed by online marketing company mysocialwinery.com said they did not blog or use Facebook, Twitter or other websites that allow consumers to comment, recommend, track or question wine producers.
The rate of vacancies for homes slipped slightly in the second quarter, a government report showed on Tuesday, but it was not enough to promise improvement in the hard-hit housing market.
Toyota Motor Corp has pushed back plans to build its Prius in the United States by as much as six years, with a top executive saying U.S. production is likely to start only when the best-selling hybrid is remodeled.
Nissan Motor Co Ltd is recalling 51,100 Cube compacts in North America after U.S. safety regulators said a fuel leak could cause fire after a crash
Japan's Nissan Motor Co said on Tuesday it will spend $600 million to upgrade its plants in Mexico and start making three new low-cost cars there, positioning Mexico as its supply hub for the Americas markets.
Daimler expects rising demand for its most expensive Mercedes-Benz models to drive operating profit to 6 billion euros ($7.8 billion) in 2010, its best result since the auto industry boom that peaked three years ago.
Sales of new homes are seen rising by about 6.7 percent to a 320,000 unit annual rate in June from 300,000 in May. Sales plummeted 32.7 percent in May to the lowest since record-keeping started in 1963.
Sales of new U.S. single-family homes rebounded strongly in June from the prior month's record low, pushing the number of houses on the market to the lowest level in nearly 42 years.
Relief after European bank stress tests and a jump in U.S. new single-family home sales in June drew investors into riskier assets and depressed prices of safe-haven U.S. government debt on Monday
Ford Motor Co chief executive Alan Mulally said on Monday the company was cautiously optimistic that it would continue to grow as the U.S. economy recovers.
Toyota Motor Corp is likely to have secured a group operating profit of about 100 billion yen ($1.1 billion) in April-June, thanks to solid sales and a sharp recovery from the previous year's loss
Nissan Motor Co said orders in Japan for the revamped March subcompact reached 12,147 units as of Sunday, representing more than three times the monthly target after less than two weeks on the market.
Fiat should keep its pledge to boost Italian car production, a newspaper cited the labor minister as saying, after the company said last week it would move production of some of its models to Serbia.
BMW and Daimler will jointly develop and purchase seat frames as part of a cooperation agreement designed to save costs.
Ford Motor Co posted a stronger-than-expected quarterly profit of $2.6 billion and said it was on track for higher earnings and lower debt in 2011, sending its shares up 3 percent in premarket trade.
General Motors Co plans to file its registration for an initial public offering during the week of August 16, just after the expected date for its second quarter results, according to two people with direct knowledge of the preparations.
A plan to maintain operations at a General Motors plant in eastern France was in doubt after a labor union refused to sign a deal on Friday to freeze salaries and cut working days.
China's Chery Automobile Co said on Friday it was unaware of a U.S. case of alleged theft of GM technology that had been linked to the Chinese firm.
It was a miserable winter day in January 2007, the kind that makes auto executives in the Motor City wonder why they hold the Detroit Auto Show at the most inhospitable time of the year.
The U.S. auto-leasing industry has likely lost $10.4 billion since 2005 because of overestimating resale values of vehicles leased
Chinese factory workers at two suppliers for foreign automakers returned to work on Thursday after winning hefty pay rises, ending strikes that again highlighted the carmakers' vulnerability to their China suppliers.
World number two truck maker Volvo AB delivered forecast-beating second-quarter earnings, due to a pick up in truck demand, cost cuts and growth in its construction division.
U.S. existing home sales fell less sharply than expected to a three-month low in June, though the supply of unsold homes rose to the highest in almost a year, an industry group said on Thursday.
U.S. 30- and 15-year mortgage rates fell to fresh lows in the past week amid concerns about the economy, according to a survey released on Thursday by Freddie Mac, the second-largest U.S. mortgage finance company.
Sales of previously owned homes hit a three-month low in June while new claims for jobless benefits surged last week, the latest indications that the economy is on the ropes.
Toyota Motor Corp plans to reduce its domestic vehicle production by about 20 percent from October as it expects a drop in demand after the Japanese government ends subsidies on purchasing so-called eco cars
U.S. mortgage applications jumped last week as demand for loans to purchase homes rose for the first time in five weeks, the Mortgage Bankers Association said on Wednesday.
Increased housing commitments swelled U.S. taxpayers' total support for the financial system by $700 billion in the past year to around $3.7 trillion, a government watchdog said on Wednesday.
More than 1,000 factory workers in eastern France agreed to a salary freeze and reduction in days owed as part of conditions imposed by General Motors Co GM.N to keep a car plant open.
