All major carmakers posted higher sales in the US last month than in April, with heavy discounting boosting even General

...the slow crawl back towards a similar verdict on his own life.Help for Trinity's mechanicWhat should long-suffering Trinity Mirror shareholders make of Thursday's results showing pre-tax profits down 35 per cent and the dividend dial at zero? Sly Bailey...

Gentex, one of the world's biggest suppliers of rear-view mirrors, had until Friday not ended the job of a single employee since its inception 34 years ago. That record ended when the Michigan...

...shares" privatisations, when businessmen ended up with cut-price industrial stakes after bailing out the near-bankrupt state - a mirror of today's situation. Investors must hope the pragmatists prevail and that, as too often in Russia, minority shareholders are...

...welcome respite for Mr Aso. His standing in the opinion polls mirrors the dire condition of Japan's economy. Last week came news...ignore this reality.Yet Japan's insecurity about US intent mirrors its own ambivalences and hesitations as much as events beyond...

...house prices and failing banks began. Rear-view mirrors reflect greater potential Rear-view mirrors have come a long way since racing drivers at...make passing easier, writes Bernard Simon.The mirror is now a valuable piece of real estate as carmakers...

...equity groups in 2006 collapsed after a $7bn-plus deal was blocked by a branch of the Chinese government.PCCW's latest failure mirrors that of Huawei, the Chinese telecoms equipment maker, which last week shelved plans to sell control of a business unit to a...

...press the button on this now reflects two problems.First, although such a writedown largely represents a look in the rear-view mirror, it also reflects the outlook. Hope of a big, imminent improvement in the core North American market - 60 per cent of GM's automotive...

...Mail & General Trust had to pull the sale of its regional newspapers because of a lack of interest, while a review at Trinity Mirror found no trophy buyer for its national papers.There were other reasons for last minute failures, including KKR's talks about...

...Paris-based, Dutch-listed exchange to merge with Deutsche Börse, its larger Frankfurt rival, whose business model it closely mirrors."There's a lot of cost duplication and inefficiency that could be eliminated with a merger," said one US-based Euronext shareholder...