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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They're starting to act like a company that burned through $7 billion in cash last year.
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They say they are not increasing their incentive spending, but I have a hard time believing that, especially with the zero-percent financing. Chrysler probably has a lot of problems with inventories, and it's trying to solve them by price-cutting.
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They may be a little slow for new models, ... (Chrysler) may still be pipeline filling, building up dealer inventories for Concorde. They have a lot of hopes pinned on those cars.
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They made history for themselves. We had strength in depth in the Eighties, top-flight players on the bench. Now, we only have four Premiership players in the squad, and two are goalkeepers.
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They must have recognized the difficulty of growing internationally without a partner, and that having an international presence outside of North America was a lot more than they had acknowledged
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They have liquidity and borrowing power, ... I don't think it's necessary or even wise to solve their problems by going Chapter 11, and they don't have to.
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A strike would be moot unless they waited until GM was back in production after the Flint strikes. If they went down now, who would care? It wouldn't mean anything.
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You take a billion here and a billion there, and it adds up. No question, it's major.
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Detroit will slap on big incentives, and we'll be back to normal.
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Detroit was an island surrounded by prosperity this year. The big SUV sales collapsed and did a number on their profitability. Both GM and Ford will lose a little market share in 2006, but not at the rate of 2005.
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Anyone who was surprised by Toyota's forecast has been living on another planet.
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Anybody who was surprised by GM cutting its dividend hasn't been on this planet.
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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 business does not deserve a huge premium. It's a cyclical business, earnings are erratic.