Autoworkers strike cut Ford sales by 100,000 vehicles and cost company USD 1.7 billion in profitsAdditional labour costs from the four-year and eight-month agreement will total USD 8.8 billion by the end of the contract, translating to ...
30 Nov, 2023, 06.51 PM IST
Further monetary policy rate hike hinges on incoming data: US Fed minutesThe US Monetary Policy Committee eyes a potential tightening if inflation progress falls short. Despite maintaining the 5-1/4 to 5-1/2 per ...
22 Nov, 2023, 09.04 AM IST
Autoworkers reach a deal with Ford, a breakthrough toward ending strikes against Detroit automakersThe United Auto Workers (UAW) union has reached a tentative contract agreement with Ford, potentially ending the nearly six-week-long strik...
26 Oct, 2023, 11.40 PM IST
Stock traders’ risk appetite faces great resetPut another way, the Federal Reserve’s restrictive monetary policy is tightening financial conditions by design. The two-month damage to st...
30 Sep, 2023, 09.52 AM IST
United Autoworkers strikes spread to Chicago and Lansing as 7,000 more workers join the picket lineIn the past the union had picked one company as a potential strike target and reached a contract agreement with that company that would ser...
29 Sep, 2023, 08.47 PM IST
For Tesla and Musk, auto strike carries benefits and risksUnencumbered by an activist union, Tesla can take advantage of the work stoppages to add to its substantial lead in battery technology and ...
22 Sep, 2023, 12.05 AM IST
Powell says soft-landing not baseline, but it's sure in the forecastThey expect economic growth to slow next year to about 1.5%, from 2.1% this year, and for the unemployment rate to go no higher than 4.1%, ...
21 Sep, 2023, 08.23 AM IST
Gold hits 2-week high as dollar eases ahead of Fed meetEuropean Central Bank policymakers want to soon start discussing how to tackle the multi-trillion-euro pool of excess liquidity sloshing ar...
19 Sep, 2023, 08.25 AM IST
The Fed wants to cool spending; a strike, a shutdown and student loans may add iceThe U.S. Federal Reserve officials are facing new risks to their goal of squelching inflation without a recession. The officials will meet ...
18 Sep, 2023, 03.48 PM IST
UAW strike: Ford temporarily lays off 600 employees, GM to ‘idle 2000 workers’, Union responds amid negotiationsThe United Auto Workers (UAW) strike against General Motors (GM), Ford, and Stellantis, collectively known as the Big Three automakers, has...
17 Sep, 2023, 09.06 PM IST
UAW Chief rejects offers from Detroit Companies, calls it ‘inadequate’ — Will the auto strikes begin from September 15On Wednesday, the United Auto Workers unveiled a plan to initiate a series of strikes directed at specific U.S. auto plants. This marks the...
14 Sep, 2023, 03.50 PM IST
Will US face the biggest auto strikes from September 15? Understanding the demands of United Auto WorkersThe United Auto Workers union is considering the possibility of initiating strikes at specific automotive plants if new contracts cannot be...
13 Sep, 2023, 11.05 PM IST
Fed policymakers to sit tight on rates, debate if more is neededThose higher rates have begun to bite: Job growth has slowed, and inflation in the last couple of months has come down sharply, hitting 3.3...
09 Sep, 2023, 10.31 AM IST
- Detroit feels the pain as GM goes bankrupt
Detroit residents are struggling to come to grips with what would have been unthinkable as recently as 2004, when GM was completing a 10-ye...
03 Jun, 2009, 12.07 AM IST
- Will family's 4th generation at GM be its last?
With GM's future uncertain, the automaker received $13.4 bn in rescue loans and faces restructuring plan deadline, Rollin Green may represe...
01 Feb, 2009, 02.16 AM IST
- Union could meet resistance at Ford, Chrysler
The United Auto Workers union could meet some resistance as it tries to wrap up contract negotiations at struggling Ford Motor Co. and priv...
27 Sep, 2007, 09.30 AM IST
- In US, too, inequality is an intellectual quagmire
You have almost certainly never heard of the Treaty of Detroit, which you may connect with the French and Indian War (1756-1763).
08 Jun, 2007, 01.18 AM IST