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Title: Nov 11, 2005: GM VEERS OFF ROAD: Automaker is ripe for bankruptcy
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Detroit Free Press
URL Source: http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=116585&Disp=0
Published: Apr 27, 2010
Author: Detroit Free Press
Post Date: 2010-04-27 18:44:51 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 1447
Comments: 5
General Motors Corp. is unraveling -- fast. Its stock price plunged to a 13-year low Thursday after the latest in a string of financial problems dismayed shareholders once again. Wall Street experts say the unthinkable is more likely than ever before: Michigan's largest company could be bought by a corporate raider like Las Vegas billionaire Kirk Kerkorian, forced to file for bankruptcy, or both. Getting GM out of bankruptcy could require the same drastic cost-cutting that is racking Delphi, its largest parts supplier. Lower wages, less generous benefits and fewer jobs would not only be devastating for the automaker's 142,000 U.S. employees. It would hurt everyone who makes parts for GM cars and trucks, sells furniture and homes to GM workers, or treats their children for the flu. Almost everyone in Michigan has a stake in GM's future. But the facts are unavoidable: You can now buy every single share of GM stock for a mere $13.5 billion, or about $3.5 billion less than last spring. Experts say a buyer like Kerkorian could sell GMAC (the division that lends money for everything from cars and homes to Manhattan skyscrapers) for $10 billion to $15 billion, take GM's $15 billion in cash and stock, put GM's automaking business into bankruptcy, and walk away with a huge profit. There is a growing sense that GM Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Rick Wagoner, as well as the company, is running out of time. Q: Might GM declare bankruptcy, like Delphi? A: The once unthinkable now has to be a real concern -- for everybody in Michigan. "We think it is inevitable," Bank of America said of a GM bankruptcy in a note to investors Thursday. Bank of America downgraded to 40% its odds that GM would declare bankruptcy during the next two years. GM executives say bankruptcy is not an option. But the decision by automotive supplier Delphi Corp. to declare bankruptcy Oct. 8 makes it a very real possibility. A GM bankruptcy would be by far the largest ever. Q: How can GM recover? A: Build gotta-have cars and trucks, most experts agree. GM's new full-size SUVs and pickup trucks will go on sale next year. Falling gas prices could help sales of the trucks, which are crucial. Also: •GM plans to close more U.S. plants, and by the end of 2008 cut 25,000 hourly jobs in an effort to cut billions of dollars in costs. Some say GM should eliminate one or two brands such as Pontiac or Buick. •GM also is trying to sell off a majority of its financial services company GMAC, which could raise $10 billion to $15 billion.
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#1. To: Brian S (#0)
Quite a few of us did. Brian S...please tell the forum how a company that lost 6.5 BILLION in the last two fiscal quarters of LAST YEAR 'repaid' the loan. Where, exactly, did the money come from to repay the TARP money? GM is bankrupt in 'reality'. It will never get out of it.
I can see NOVEMBER from my House....
Yeah, sure you did... {{{chuckle}}}
Never swear "allegiance" to anything other than the 'right to change your mind'!
Riiight...Boofer...you were at the fore in LP pointing out what was going wrong in the US economy. BTW, in re GM's problems, you blamed the workers.
#67. To: war (#48) Keep hiding behind the bozo, bozo. (laughing) You've always been a world class pussy. Badeye posted on 2010-01-14 16:12:48 ET Reply Trace
Its in various databases. I damn sure was against the bailout.
I can see NOVEMBER from my House....
Where, exactly, did the money come from to repay the TARP money? Appears Brian has his tongue and hands caught in Obama's zipper! Sneakypete, have you ever been married? Said things you later regretted?
#2. To: Badeye (#1)
Quite a few of us did.
#3. To: Boofer (#1)
#4. To: Brian S (#2)
#5. To: Badeye, Brian S (#1)
Brian S...please tell the forum how a company that lost 6.5 BILLION in the last two fiscal quarters of LAST YEAR 'repaid' the loan.
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