An EU ruling says foods labelled non-GM can contain up to 1% of GM ingredients.
Some of GM's 1, 100 engineers now working on car interiors will move to desks at suppliers' offices.
Government spokesman Ulrich Wilhelm said Berlin regretted the decision, adding that it wanted GM to repay 1.5bn euros in bridge financing extended by German banks.
Some lucky survivors of the first edition, which was a contemporary of the GM EV-1, somehow managed to escape the crusher and are still on the road with Ed Begley Jr.
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Among the largest underlying components of VXF, in trading today Las Vegas Sands Corp ( NYSE: LVS) is down about 1.7%, General Motors Co. ( NYSE: GM) is down about 1.1%, and LyondellBasell Industries NV ( NYSE: LYB) is lower by about 2%.
Among the largest underlying components of VXF, in trading today General Motors Co. ( NYSE: GM) is down about 1.1%, Las Vegas Sands Corp ( NYSE: LVS) is off about 3.5%, and Bunge Ltd. ( NYSE: BG) is lower by about 1%.
Toyota, which enjoyed a robust 11% jump in sales last quarter as it sprinted past GM, still dropped output by 1% in March.
Just this week, GM announced they plan to hire 1, 500 workers for a new research center in Michigan to help make sure the high-tech cars of tomorrow are designed and built right here in America.
Compact cars, meanwhile, comprised 1.2% of GM's output, down from 6.4% the previous quarter.
Their market share is rising in the United States and Toyota has more or less stolen GM's crown as No. 1.
Last year when Toyota had 12 recalls, covering 2.2 million vehicles in the U.S., GM had 30, covering 5.1 million, and Ford had 17, covering 6 million ( see story, p. 102).
Among the largest underlying components of VXF, in trading today General Motors Co. ( NYSE: GM) is down about 0.1%, Las Vegas Sands Corp ( NYSE: LVS) is up about 0.6%, and Delta Air Lines, Inc. ( NYSE: DAL) is lower by about 0.6%.
In a good year these high-profit models can add 1.5 million vehicles to GM's sales count.
Any shot at a pullback withered by the open though, as narrow pre-market losses reversed to a 1.5% gain for GM in the first five minutes of trading.
Just take a look at the stock of large US export companies after China released data that showed a slow down in their economies last week: Toyota Motor Company (NYSE:TM) down 1.92%, Honda (NYSE:HMC) down 2.12%, GM (NYSE:GM) down 2.09%, Ford (NYSE:F) down 1.24%, Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT) down 0.52%, Sony Corporation (NYSE:SNE) down 7.30%, Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) down .20%, Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) down 1.37%, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) down 2.82%, Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) down 1.21 %, and 3M (NYSE:MMM) down 1.35 percent.
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Toyota still has much to learn from GM, a company that was already No. 1 when Toyota was barely born, he said.
Of the 1, 300 patents filed last year by GM, more than half of them were for advanced environmental technologies.
Watts argued in a research report that Thursday's 10.5% sell off in shares of XM Satellite Radio Holdings was an overreaction to GM's announcement on Wednesday that it would install 1.4 million XM systems in its vehicles this year, less than the 1.5 million it predicted at XM's analyst day conference back in January.
GM's revenues in the fourth quarter were 2.1% higher than in the ebullient period a year earlier.
Ford Motor suffered a similar fate to GM, with U.S. sales ticking down 0.1% to 192, 102.
GM's share of the European car market has fallen by 1% to 9.2% since 2001.
Independent estimates suggest that more than 1 million jobs could have been lost if Chrysler and GM had liquidated.
Last year, Toyota sold 9.7 million cars and trucks worldwide to beat GM's 9.29 million and Volkswagen at 9.1 million.
Despite these concerns, we believe that total trucks and cars sold in U.S. could grow by 1 percentage point faster than our current expectations annually if GM sustains its current momentum.
Today there are almost 700, 000 GM retirees and just 70, 000 active workers, a 10-1 ratio.
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The amount it spends making good on warranties is 1.2% of revenues versus 2.4% for GM and 2.3% for Ford.
Toyota's first quarter sales declined 2.2 percent from a year earlier, while those for GM were up 3.6 percent and Volkswagen's jumped 5.1 percent.
The amount it spends making good on warranties is 1.2% of revenues versus 2.4% for GM and 2.3% for Ford (nyse: F - news - people ).
Sales growth exceeded the 1.5 percent growth in total worldwide auto sales, according to GM.
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