General Motors

General Motors float could be biggest in US history

News Thu 19 Aug 2010, AT 12:35

Business Digest: US Treasury hopes to reduce its holding to less than 50 per cent

End of road for Hummer

General Motors is to stop production of  Hummer SUVs - the ‘big car for the stars’

Opel; General Motors

GM cancels sale of Opel and Vauxhall to Magna

News Wed 4 Nov 2009, AT 11:56

General Motors pulls out of European sale – to union delight and German anger

Vauxhall bail-out in doubt

News Tue 25 Aug 2009, AT 10:12

GM is considering a new plan for its European operations which would sidetrack its agreement with the German government

GM set to file for bankruptcy

News Mon 1 Jun 2009, AT 09:30

The automaker is likely to declare bankruptcy later today in the biggest industrial failure in US history

GM speeds towards bankruptcy

News Fri 29 May 2009, AT 10:29

After a last-ditch agreement with its bondholders, the General Motors board will today sign off America's biggest-ever bankruptcy

Vauxhall talks stall over GM demands

News Thu 28 May 2009, AT 09:54

Emergency negotiations designed to secure the fate of General Motors’ European businesses broke down overnight after it made new requests

MBA: the letters that spell financial ruin at Harvard

News Fri 20 Feb 2009, AT 15:13

Business-savvy Masters of Disaster suck value from their employers and are of far less use to society than decent carpenters and accountants

Slash rates, save car plants: the arguments against

News Wed 17 Dec 2008, AT 00:00

Almost all experts are agreed on the way out of the financial crisis – hence the Fed’s near-zero rate cut. But they could all be very wrong

Economic woes pile onto Barack Obama’s in-tray

Alexander Cockburn Fri 14 Nov 2008, AT 08:26

With more big bankruptcies and job losses hitting by the day, Obama’s options for an economic rescue are bleak