David Healy
David Healy
David Jonathan Healy, MBEis a Northern Irish former footballer and now football manager who is in charge at NIFL Premiership club Linfield...
ProfessionSoccer Player
Date of Birth5 August 1979
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The fight between Delphi and the union is scaring people about a strike shutting down GM. There's been a lot of piling on GM in the media, too.
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The Kennedy-McCain bill has a pathway to legal residence and work.
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A Jan. 4 reporting date for 'December' sales provides both the temptation and the opportunity for some creative finagling of the sales numbers.
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The fleet sales that inflated the January results will probably diminish for GM, Ford and Chrysler. There's three reasons why their market-share has declined: product, product and product.
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The improvements we are seeing are real. There are a lot of basic improvements being made that will accumulate in the third and fourth quarters.
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The impression so far is that GM's portfolio is a little more impressive than the others,
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The domestics suffer from hardening of the arteries in their design departments and are turning out well-executed but boring cars and trucks.
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The market has developed massively over the past five years; this is where the action is and where the growth is coming from.
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The job cuts will ultimately generate considerable cost savings if GM is smart enough to fire the right people and keep the right ones.
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I think the losses at Ford and GM are at their maximum right now. If I'm right, and it becomes clear the losses are shrinking, the stocks may act a little better. But I'm not convinced enough right now to buy them myself.
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I think the effect has already been felt on Ford's earnings because Ford and the other automakers book themselves in profits when they produce and ship the cars to the dealers,
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I think the companies are coming out of it with a contract they can live with, but not with any major reductions in their employment costs.
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I think that's highly unlikely, ... I think they will probably negotiate an agreement with the union to reduce health care costs this year.
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I think that the sales drop is temporary. Explorer buyers, or some of the buyers, may be buying Ford's new small Escape SUVs or waiting until the new Explorer itself comes out after the first of the year.