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New & improved GM
Post-bankruptcy financials show a viable company but little chance of recouping bail-out investment.
Sodexo
Life looks tough for specialised catering and facilities management providers, though their diversified peers are expected to fare better
Fiat / Chrysler
Sergio Marchionne, now boss of both Fiat and Chrysler, has announced ambitious plans for a turnround
Fertiliser companies
Big producers are jockeying to position themselves for recovery with demand set to pick up next year after the bumper US harvest
Auto technology grab
The financial crisis has given emerging market carmakers chances to obtain previously closely-guarded western technology – and at knockdown prices
European chemical companies
If sales figures from Akzo Nobel and Bayer ’s sales figures are anything to go by, investors betting on a recovery in the sector might have got ahead of themselves
Caterpillar
The world’s largest maker of earth moving equipment expects to be making a good impression
Oilfield services
When the bubble burst, the letdown for oilfield service companies was brutal but awful quarterly earnings are not denting investor enthusiasm
Philips
The Dutch consumer electronics maker wins no awards for cheerfulness in spite of beating even top-end forecasts for third-quarter net profit
US oil majors
Warren Buffett’s multi-billion dollar loss in ConocoPhillips was a matter of forgetting that ‘price is what you pay but value is what you get’
