Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group News

Shares of Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group Inc., the Tulsa-based rental car company, hit a 52-week high of $14.18 on Friday before dropping 4 cents to close at $14.14, up 50 cents or 3.7 percent.

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Wall Street sealed the third month of its spring rally with a big advance Friday.

Scott L. Thompson, president and CEO of Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group Inc., on May 13 purchased 100,000 directly held shares at between $4.13 and $4.75 with a market value of $458,207, and now holds 163,550 shares total common.

Michael J. Cavanagh, chief financial officer at JPMorgan Chase & Co., exercised options to buy 99,000 shares at $29.96 with a market value of nearly $3 million, and on the same day sold 20,000 directly held shares at $37.32 with a market value of $746,412, and now has 281,727 shares total common.

Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group, Inc. today held its Annual Meeting of Stockholders in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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The net loss for the 2009 first quarter was $8.9 million, or $0.42 loss per diluted share, compared to a net loss of $297.9 million, or $14.07 loss per diluted share, for the comparable 2008 quarter.

The Tulsa aerospace manufacturer NORDAM Group has won a three-year contract from Boeing Co.

The Company announced that it has no credit exposure to GM and has potential exposure to Chrysler, its principal supplier, comprised of the following: -- Approximately $11 million in trade receivables from Chrysler under incentive and vehicle repurchase programs.

On March 17, 2009, Rental Car Finance Corp. , a special purpose financing subsidiary of the Company, provided notice to the lenders under its asset-backed Variable Funding Note Purchase Facility requesting a reduction in commitments under the Conduit from $215 million to $1 million.

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During a Wednesday conference call with top executives of Tulsa based Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group it was announced the bad news continues.

Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group Inc. posted a bigger loss in the fourth quarter as rental car demand and vehicle values tumbled.