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...Vietnamese electric vehicle start-up VinFast’s valuation has overtaken those of Detroit’s “big three” carmakers after shares of the lossmaking company soared on their first trading day....
...The Detroit automaker earned $1.8bn in net profit for the third quarter on $36bn in revenue, but said that operating income of $11.5bn for the year would be at the low end of the company’s guidance, partly...
...He enjoyed an F45 workout so much while travelling in the Middle East that, on returning home to Michigan, he signed up to open three gyms of his own on the outskirts of Detroit....
...A 2007 civil lawsuit in Massachusetts led by a pension fund in Detroit accused 16 private equity firms of forming consortiums that rigged bids in sale processes....
...These companies employed 4m people and accounted for 44 per cent of the research and development spending of all US public companies. “The VC industry is cut-throat....
...“The self-driving system is a core competency, it’s necessary — but it’s not sufficient to create a new business,” he told the FT’s Future of the Car Summit in Detroit last month....
...The unit will be based at Ford’s new advanced vehicle campus in Detroit, outside the company’s main headquarters in nearby Dearborn, and will hold Ford’s ownership stake in Argo AI, its Pittsburgh-based...
...The big three Detroit automakers reported stronger than expected new vehicle sales in the US for March, as tax reform and the strong job market appeared to be fuelling strong consumer demand after a slow...
...By 1984, his company, Flex-N-Gate, was supplying Toyota, even bringing its production chiefs to Illinois to adapt plants to the Japanese company’s lean manufacturing system....
...Cities such as Indianapolis, Detroit, Cleveland, Kansas City and St Louis are the cities that AOL founder and tech investor Steve Case means when he encourages the “rise of the rest”....
...On Rob Cortis’s television set in Detroit, Michigan, events have played out differently....
...But the company told the Financial Times, “Shinola is not a ‘Made in America’ play, it is a company with a sincere interest and devotion to creating American jobs in industries where manufacturing has left...
...European companies taking early timepieces as gifts to the Ottoman Empire and China on trading trips in the 18th and 19th centuries may have sparked the trend for giving watches and clocks in royal and diplomatic...
...The investor eventually agreed to sell the house to Ms Jones-Sanders for $5,000 after Detroit Eviction Defense, a non-profit group, organised a protest at his property management company....
...MelonUrban Active Helmet in double-white red, £44.99, bricklanebikes.co.uk 12 Helped by its women’s designer, the model Carolyn Murphy, the Detroit brand Shinola has become synonymous with biker style....
...Shinola’s ability to convey the positive side of the city is not lost on the Detroit authorities. The website Crain’s Detroit Business recently described the company as “synonymous” with the city....
...Among the fallers, General Motors shed nearly 3 per cent to $35.73, after the Canadian government said it would sell its multibillion dollar stake in the Detroit-based automaker nearly six years after it...
...It launched as a watchmaker in Detroit in 2011 with a social mission to bring quality manufacturing to the US and create jobs....
...Taking the name of a long-defunct brand of US shoe polish, the company moved into the fifth floor of the old General Motors Argonaut building, where it occupies a 60,000 sq ft space....
..., a Glencore Xstrata company....
...States may handle large sums of money, comparable to those managed by Fortune 500 companies, but they have far fewer cyber security staff....
...Fiat Chrysler declined to comment on the plan, which will be released on Tuesday at an event in Auburn Hills near Detroit....
...On Monday, SAC began selling its entire stake in the drug companies, a week before Elan would announce the disappointing drug trial results....
...The high premiums are partly a result of the lengthy queues at the biggest LME aluminium warehouses, at Detroit and Vlissingen, in the Netherlands, which stretch to more than 500 days....
...A sale of Detroit-based Compuware would represent a long-awaited “liquidity event” for Elliott Management, the hedge fund....
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