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
company earning environment turn
In an environment where nobody's earning raises, if they turn the company around, they get rewarded.
accounting charges earning instead mostly period seem state timing
The accounting charges seem to be mostly timing -- instead of earning in one period they have to state them in another period.
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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 don't think Wall Street had fully realized the dependence of GM's and Ford's North American earnings on a few light-truck models. That was the nasty surprise that drove their shares down.
earnings hit smart
I think they're pretty smart to take the earnings hit now,
business cyclical deserve earnings huge
The business does not deserve a huge premium. It's a cyclical business, earnings are erratic.
fields mark matter people wanting
This is really more a matter of Mark Fields wanting to get his own people in place.
chrysler group tougher
I think it's a little tougher for the Chrysler Group than they're admitting.
accumulate basic fourth seeing third
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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I suspect that Wagoner is under a lot of pressure from the board to turn things around. To me it seems the company is in crisis mode.
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It looks like they bought a good part of York's program, though I'm not sure they didn't plan these changes anyway. York's arrival on the board simply accelerated the changes.
business cars daily ford less outlet sales
Hertz has become less and less important as an outlet for Ford cars as Ford has pared back sales to Hertz and other daily rental companies. It's really a noncore business right now.
fight gm people scaring shutting strike union
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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Ford would welcome the cash for liquidity purposes, to help provide for large unfunded pension liabilities and for research and development.