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What a disaster! General Motors (GM) lost a stunning $4.8 billion last quarter, or $8.45 a share. This is GM's fifth straight quarterly loss. Bear in mind that this is a $23 stock, and they lost $8.45 a share! That loss comes to over $50 million a day. This figure includes "one-time" items which amount to $3.6 billion, or $6.36 a share. Excluding those charges, GM only lost $2.09 a share. Wall Street was expecting a loss of 12 cents a share. As lousy as Ford's earnings were, they at least beat the Street.

President Bush said that the automakers should develop "a product that's relevant." Ouch.

Posted by edelfenbein at January 26, 2006 10:00 AM