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General Motors Corp. , under pressure after Congress delayed action on automaker aid, is idling four plants for an additional week, extending the shutdown of an engineering center and returning some corporate ...

Wall Street sagged again Friday but took a break from the heavier selling of recent days as energy, utility and technology stocks showed some advances and bank stocks declined.

General Motors Corp. , seeking a federal bailout as its cash dwindles, would cost the government as much as $200 billion should the biggest U.S. automaker be forced to liquidate, a forecasting firm estimated.

General Motors Corp. 's North American parts supply chain may be in for heavy losses, bankruptcies and liquidations if a rescue plan for the automaker fails to ensure payments for scheduled business.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. removed its investment rating and share-price target for General Motors Corp., saying the largest U.S. automaker may need $22 billion and it's "highly uncertain" Congress will pass a ...

General Motors Corp. , seeking a federal bailout to stay in business, is having a harder time selling $4 billion in assets after saying it may run out of cash, according to people familiar with the ...

General Motors Corp. , the largest U.S. automaker, slid to the lowest in 66 years in New York trading on concern it won't have enough cash to make it through the end of the year.

Most Asian shares fell on Friday as concerns over the global economy and caution ahead of a Bank of Japan rate decision halted a powerful three-day rally, sending safer havens such as regional bonds and the yen ...

Corn Products International Inc. said it earned $88 million, or a record $1.15 per diluted share, in the third quarter compared with a profit of $51 million, or 66 cents per share, for the same period in 2007.

As Daimler AG sees it, Chrysler is worth nothing. The German automaker has depreciated its stake in Chrysler to zero from $268 million at the end of June, the company said Thursday.

Cerberus Capital Management LP would look to retain a "meaningful stake" in the company that would emerge from a combined Chrysler LLC and General Motors Corp., and would likely push to breathe "fresh air" into ...

Chrysler LLC, now in merger talks with General Motors Corp. , will cut 1,825 jobs as it shuts a Delaware factory a year early and pares output at an Ohio plant because of slumping sport-utility vehicle sales.

General Motors Corp. is likely to announce further production cuts and possible plant closures as early as next week as it deals with slumping sales and a collapse in its stock price, a person with knowledge of ...

General Motors Corp. shares hit their lowest price since 1949 in the opening minutes of trading Friday as financial turmoil and a weakening global auto market heightened worries that the automaker may be unable ...

Ralph the Cactus Planter , the converted, dismantled, and decorated Oldsmobile 88 in front of the Planet K store on I-35 in San Marcos, has lost the latest stage of his legal battle to be recognized as ...

Dude, where's my car song? While you were electronically adjusting your side-view mirrors or being guided by GPS or reading the external temperature gauge, a curious thing happened in rock music: The car-song ...

A 1956 Olds 88 was the first car I ever rode in , so it was pretty cool to find this ad, in which "Pete," apparently under the influence of then-legal peyote, speaks of himself in the third person to the local ...

There are a limited number of firsts in a person's life: first kiss, first love and that special, never-to-be-forgotten first car.

A recent letter from a reader in Virginia rekindled our interest in "muscle cars," but with a "Crusin'" twist.

A recent letter from a reader in Virginia rekindled our interest in "muscle cars," but with a "Crusin'" twist.