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Toyota says Oct China auto sales up 27.1 percent year/year
Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) and its two Chinese joint ventures sold about 104,700 vehicles in China in October, up 27.1 percent from a year earlier, the Japanese automaker said on Monday.
By Reporting by Norihiko Shirouzu; Writing up Samuel Shen; Editing by Adam Jourdan
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GM's top lawyer, hammered during recall hearing in Congress, to retire
General Motors Co's (GM.N) top lawyer will retire early next year, months after his department was heavily criticized for how it handled the automaker's defective ignition switch that has been linked to at least 27 deaths.
By BEN KLAYMAN
GE profit tops views as cost cuts drive margins; shares up
General Electric Co (GE.N) reported a slightly higher-than-expected quarterly profit on Friday, with cost cuts that helped boost margins across its industrial businesses offsetting revenue that missed analysts' targets.
Data show U.S. economy's pulse is still strong
The number of Americans filing new claims for jobless benefits fell to a 14-year low last week and industrial output rose sharply in September, positive signals that could help ease fears over the economic outlook.
By JASON LANGE
Sergio's challenge: Build Jeep into FCA's top global brand by 2018
Auto analysts are skeptical that Sergio Marchionne, the hyperbolic chief executive of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCHA.MI)(FCAU.N), can meet his most ambitious goal: to nearly double Jeep's global sales over the next four years.
Deaths linked to GM ignition-switch defect rise to 27
A program to compensate victims of a faulty ignition switch in General Motors (GM.N) vehicles has approved three new death claims, bringing the total number of deaths linked so far to the switch to 27, according to a report released on Monday by the lawyer overseeing the program.
By JESSICA DYE
FCA opens up 2.7 percent in Milan in market debut
Shares in carmaker Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) opened 2.7 percent higher on the Milan bourse on Monday, their first day of trading as a newly-merged company.
