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
affect car sales
but it ain't going to affect car sales soon.
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Imports and transplants have eaten Detroit's lunch and are beginning to nibble at its dinner as well.
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Imports and transplants are again the big winners in 2005, and will close out the year with about 40.5 percent of the market, up from 38.8 percent in 2004.
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If you're talking three plants in a short period, it sounds like it's a pretty healthy number.
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If there is a long strike, they're both out of business. Delphi and GM, whether they like it or not, they're in bed together. They need each other to survive.
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I think all of us on Wall Street were misled not only by the company's first quarter guidance, but also by fact back in the fourth quarter, their North American margins were disappointing and terrible. I think there's real strength here, but a lot of good things were concentrated in the first quarter.
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Asian makers particularly are exploiting Detroit's 2,000 dollar per-vehicle cost-of-production disadvantage (which largely stems from the US manufacturers' enormous legacy costs) to offer stylistically and technologically more advanced vehicles.
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The bearishness is overdone. This is probably the part of the cycle where you'd do well owning auto stocks if you have some patience.
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It must have been a really strong close to the month. December wasn't a big blowout for incentives, so there wasn't a lot of payback in January and consumer confidence really took a jump.
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It's a moderate plus to their finances. Hertz has become kind of a noncore operation for them, a much less important outlet.
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It's a major step forward but it's certainly no where near all what they have to accomplish to turn North America around.
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The business does not deserve a huge premium. It's a cyclical business, earnings are erratic.
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No matter how you slice it, ... it's one of the best months ever.
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It's well-executed. It's expensive, but they can afford it.