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Vehicle sales up 37%; Campi says industry to continue posting growth
Inquirer
| MANILA, Philippines--The local automotive industry has kept its growth momentum by registering a 36.6-percent increase in sales as of the end of February. | In the first two months of the year, vehicle sales reached 24,336 units from 17,818 units in the same period last year. | Data from the Chamb...
Entrance to Chevron's headquarters complex in San Ramon, California. Chevron was found to have evaded $3.25 billion in federal and state taxes from 1970 to 2000 through a complex petroleum pricing scheme involving a project in Indonesia.
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Chevron to seek UK refinery sale, cut 2,000 jobs
The Guardian
* Chevron to cut 2,000 downstream jobs in 2010 * To seek bids for UK refinery, other downstream ops * Shares down 0.2 percent in early trading (Adds quote, detail, background, byline, updates share price) By Braden Reddall NEW YORK, March 9 (Reuters) - Chevron Corp, the second-largest U.S. oil compa...
Royal Dutch Shell stops gasoline sales to Iran-trade
The Guardian
* Shell halts gasoline supplies to Iran, trade sources say * Shell sold 1.65 million bbls of gasoline bet Apr-Oct in 2009 (Adds background) By Luke Pachymuthu DUBAI March 10 (Reuters) - Oil major Royal Dutch Shell has stopped gasoline sales to Iran, ...
Ingersoll Bars Units From Sales to Iran
Wall Street Journal
By KRIS MAHER And JAY SOLOMON | Ingersoll-Rand PLC said it has prohibited its subsidiaries from selling products to customers in Iran. | The move by the industrial-parts maker is part of an accelerating trend among major Western companies to reduce t...
Toyota sales up 50 percent from March 2009
The Examiner
Comments ERLANGER, Ky. (Map, News) - A high-ranking Toyota executive says the auto company's North American sales spiked around 50 percent the first eight days of March as incentives helped lure customers after a series of embarrassing safety recalls...
Toyota sales up 50 percent from March 2009
Fresno Bee
| - Associated Press Writer thefresnobee_994:/2010/03/09/1852868/toyota-exec-says-sales-rise-50.html E-Mail Print Text Size: tool name | tool goes here Comments (0) | ERLANGER, Ky. -- A high-ranking Toyota executive says the auto company's North Amer...
Toyota sales up 50 percent from March 2009
Seattle Times
ERLANGER, Ky. - | A high-ranking Toyota executive says the auto company's North American sales spiked around 50 percent the first eight days of March as incentives helped lure customers after a series of embarrassing safety recalls. | Don Esmond, sen...
Toyota sales up 50 percent from March 2009
Wtop
By JEFFREY McMURRAY | Associated Press Writer | ERLANGER, Ky. (AP) - A high-ranking Toyota executive says the auto company's North American sales spiked around 50 percent the first eight days of March as incentives helped lure customers after a serie...
General Motors Corp. Talegaon plant, near Pune, India. 12 April 09.
WN / smita
GM India sales up 126% in February
The Times Of India
NEW DELHI: Riding high on the success of the popular Chevrolet brand, General Motors India has registered a record growth of 126 % in sales in February 2010, compared to the corres...
Toyota Land Cruiser at Auto show, Pune, India
WN / Geeta
Embattled Toyota launches sales campaign in China
The Siasat Daily
| Tokyo, March 05: Toyota said Friday it had started a sales blitz in China days after the company president apologised to drivers in the world's biggest car market for pulling 75,...
Toyota Land Cruiser Prado is a model designation used in Japan, Australia, South Africa, Middle East, Southeast Asia and Latin America as well as other parts of the world for light-duty, mid-sized four-wheel drive cars in the Toyota Land Cruiser line. They are produced by the Japanese car maker Toyota Motor Corporation. The car is marketed in many other parts of the developing world, such as the Caribbean and large parts of Africa.
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Toyota UK car sales shrink in recall backlash
The Times
| Sales of Toyota cars in the UK have tumbled this year after the Japanese carmaker's crisis over faulty vehicles that has forced it to recall nearly nine million automobiles acros...
Chevron to Seek UK Refinery Sale, Cut 2,000 Jobs
ABC News
By Braden Reddall | March 9, 2010 | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Chevron Corp , the second-largest U.S. oil company, said it planned to put several downstream operations up for sale, including its Pembroke refinery in the UK, and eliminate 2,000 jobs this ye...
Chevron to seek UK refinery sale, cut 2,000 jobs
The Guardian
* Chevron to cut 2,000 downstream jobs in 2010 * To seek bids for UK refinery, other downstream ops * Shares down 0.2 percent in early trading (Adds quote, detail, background, byline, updates share price) By Braden Reddall NEW YORK, March 9 (Reuters)...
High street's sales rise provides cold comfort
The Times
| Retail sales rose last month, reversing a dismal start to the year when January's icy weather kept shoppers at home, but they still fell short of raising hopes for an impending recovery on the high street. | The value of like-for-like sales rose at...
Need to know: Bovis demand ... Audi sales up ...Stagecoach results
The Times
| View video and Need to Know interactive heatmap | Economics | UK retail sales: The value of high street sales bounced up at an annual rate 2.2 per cent on a like-for-like basis last month, reversing January's 0.7 per cent decline, figures from the ...
Currency
Gold bullion bars and gold coins are displayed at RPS Jewellers in Southall, London, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2009.
(photo: AP / Kirsty Wigglesworth)
China assesses its gold strategy
Asia Times
| By Russell Hsiao | Chinese leaders convening in Beijing for the annual plenary session of the National People's Congress (NPC) - China's ceremonial legislature - this week will, among other things, hammer out a blueprint for the ascendancy of the country's currency, the yuan (or renminbi). | China's 2010 economic blueprint, which was officially u...



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