http://www.inveslogic.com/tags/gm Blog Articles Tagged with 'gm' at http://www.inveslogic.com en http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/etf-investor/1148290?rsstype=tag&tag=gm People are neatly lining up on either side of this auto industry bailout subject, but most of them are ducking the core issues. If you re pro or you re con, here are some of the questions you have to answer to be credible. Pro. If you re in fa... Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:11:34 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/etf-investor/1148290?rsstype=tag&tag=gm http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/energy-outlook/1148189?rsstype=tag&tag=gm As Congress meets today to take up the subject of rescuing the Big 3 US automakers from possible bankruptcy, I'm concerned that this issue has been conflated with energy and environmental policy, rather than being viewed as an expedient palliative. W... Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:00:00 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/energy-outlook/1148189?rsstype=tag&tag=gm http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/etf-investor/1148132?rsstype=tag&tag=gm G-20 recap. G-20 leaders met this weekend to discuss solutions to the global financial crisis. The group called for a regulatory crackdown on high-risk lending and investments, and will require banks to meet higher capital standards and better ris... Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:14:08 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/etf-investor/1148132?rsstype=tag&tag=gm http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/etf-investor/1147933?rsstype=tag&tag=gm If General Motors (GM) is allowed to fail, won t we lose three million jobs? That multi-million job loss comes from both GM s own employees, plus the suppliers and dealers.However, the economics behind that idea is pretty bogus. The number of ... Sun, 16 Nov 2008 12:57:04 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/etf-investor/1147933?rsstype=tag&tag=gm http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/247-wall-street/1147920?rsstype=tag&tag=gm With the Fed and Treasury apparently willing to sit on the sidelines while GM (GM) and Chrysler run low on money and head toward possible bankruptcies, it has...[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and mo... Sun, 16 Nov 2008 11:29:29 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/247-wall-street/1147920?rsstype=tag&tag=gm http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/big-picture/1147909?rsstype=tag&tag=gm Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (November 3 9, 2008)Welcome to Wall Street, Barack Obama. His victory signaled a change in US political direction, but the biggest election day rally ever a surge of 4.1% in the S&P 500 I... Sun, 16 Nov 2008 09:25:41 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/big-picture/1147909?rsstype=tag&tag=gm http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/energy-stock-blog/1147874?rsstype=tag&tag=gm Buy One, Get One Free - That was the offer last week in the United Kingdom. But the two-for-one sale wasn t for bags of potato chips or loaves of bread at the supermarket - it was for cars. U.K. newspaper The Guardian reports car dealers acro... Sun, 16 Nov 2008 08:59:53 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/energy-stock-blog/1147874?rsstype=tag&tag=gm http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/etf-investor/1147883?rsstype=tag&tag=gm Buy One, Get One Free - That was the offer last week in the United Kingdom. But the two-for-one sale wasn t for bags of potato chips or loaves of bread at the supermarket - it was for cars. U.K. newspaper The Guardian reports car dealers acro... Sun, 16 Nov 2008 08:59:53 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/etf-investor/1147883?rsstype=tag&tag=gm http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/etf-investor/1147888?rsstype=tag&tag=gm The Oxford Dictionary defines volatility as liable to change rapidly and unpredictably, especially for the worse. It s not as if investors do not know this by now, as global stock markets were again subjected to extreme fluctuations dur... Sun, 16 Nov 2008 08:22:47 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/etf-investor/1147888?rsstype=tag&tag=gm http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/etf-investor/1147899?rsstype=tag&tag=gm According to data from Opensecrets.Org, over the last ten years, Ford (F), General Motors (GM) and Chrysler have expended $228.4 million in lobbying costs in Washington. click to enlarge... Sun, 16 Nov 2008 07:30:33 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/etf-investor/1147899?rsstype=tag&tag=gm http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/etf-investor/1147844?rsstype=tag&tag=gm Before the current economic crisis became apparent to all, the most popular fable used to describe America s uncanny economic resiliency was the story of Goldilocks. It was argued that our economy was skipping down a sunny path of moderate growth, ... Sun, 16 Nov 2008 04:53:36 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/etf-investor/1147844?rsstype=tag&tag=gm http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/etf-investor/1147855?rsstype=tag&tag=gm The Commerce Department's release of October retail sales figures indicates a 2.8% drop in sales to $363.7 billion from September's $374 billion. October 2008, and its corresponding stock market crash, marked new lows for this latest economic debacle... Sun, 16 Nov 2008 04:03:34 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/etf-investor/1147855?rsstype=tag&tag=gm http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/etf-investor/1147422?rsstype=tag&tag=gm Bear market bounce. In a stunning turnaround, markets recovered from an early drop on Thursday and rallied to a strong close as bargain hunters got back into the market. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which fell below 8,000 at its intraday low,... Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:16:12 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/etf-investor/1147422?rsstype=tag&tag=gm http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/etf-investor/1147283?rsstype=tag&tag=gm It s a bull market in bailouts. The banks were first. Now it s the auto companies. Whose next? ... Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:47:05 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/etf-investor/1147283?rsstype=tag&tag=gm http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/etf-investor/1147039?rsstype=tag&tag=gm Today's downgrade of [[GM]] from Overweight to Neutral at JP Morgan is one that you would expect to see after the close on the Friday before Memorial Day when no one is at work. As shown below, JP Morgan finally downgraded GM to Neutral after having... Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:30:00 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/etf-investor/1147039?rsstype=tag&tag=gm http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/etf-investor/1146777?rsstype=tag&tag=gm Sweet sorghum is a much better ethanol feed stock than corn or switchgrass cellulose. Sweet sorghum has been grown in the US midwest for over a hundred years, originally for molasses as a substitute for cane sugar. It can produce almost as much sugar... Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:50:48 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/etf-investor/1146777?rsstype=tag&tag=gm http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/energy-stock-blog/1146855?rsstype=tag&tag=gm Sweet sorghum is a much better ethanol feed stock than corn or switchgrass cellulose. Sweet sorghum has been grown in the US midwest for over a hundred years, originally for molasses as a substitute for cane sugar. It can produce almost as much sugar... Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:50:48 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/energy-stock-blog/1146855?rsstype=tag&tag=gm http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/etf-investor/1146788?rsstype=tag&tag=gm By Eric Roseman In 1955, U.S. manufacturing was approximately 55% of the nation's GDP. Today, manufacturing is barely 15% of GDP as the United States and other industrialized countries continue to transition to service-based economies. Unfortunately,... Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:05:03 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/etf-investor/1146788?rsstype=tag&tag=gm http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/etf-investor/1146601?rsstype=tag&tag=gm Call the Fed, my favorite burger joint down the street is experiencing distress. Yeah, I ll take a double with cheese, hold the TARP. Not really sure how Detroit sees this all working out. Does the UAW and the big three (two public, one p... Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:47:22 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/etf-investor/1146601?rsstype=tag&tag=gm http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/etf-investor/1146379?rsstype=tag&tag=gm With the ever increasing amount of taxpayer money handed over to bail out financial firms, manufacturing firms and Insurance firms, the Treasury has given a new meaning to the term venture capital . Venture, by its very definition, involves risk f... 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