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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I was expecting an announcement on the dividend today, so I was surprised that we didn't hear anything about it. They ought to cut it for tactical reasons, even though they can continue to pay it since they have enough liquidity. The addition of York on the board may still result in that.
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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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I would say that's the best-ever result we've had,
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GM is losing market share overall, but mostly because of its fleet sales. GM's sales to actual retail customers were up a bit in February, so its total market share is down, but in the units that really count, the results weren't that bad.
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This is a young, up-and-coming team and there is hope for the future. Of course the last two results have been disappointing but there is plenty to build on.
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This is really more a matter of Mark Fields wanting to get his own people in place.
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I think it's a little tougher for the Chrysler Group than they're admitting.
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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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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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In an environment where nobody's earning raises, if they turn the company around, they get rewarded.
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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.
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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.
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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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Ford would welcome the cash for liquidity purposes, to help provide for large unfunded pension liabilities and for research and development.