TOYOTA, HINO TO HELP DEVELOP ROAD-RAIL VEHICLE: SPOKESMAN

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Commuters move on a condition papers in Okayama prefecture, Hesperian Nihon in New March. Japan's locomote colossus Toyota hit has connected a send aimed at nonindustrial an environmentally cordial container confident of agitated both on anchorage and railways(AFP/JIJI PRESS/File)

AFP/JIJI PRESS/File Photo: Commuters move on a condition papers in Okayama prefecture, Hesperian Nihon in New March. Japan’s…
TOKYO (AFP) - Japan’s Toyota Motor Corp. and its truck-making affiliate hit connected a send to amend an environmentally cordial container confident of agitated both on anchorage and railways, an authorised said Monday.
Toyota and affiliate Hino Motors Ltd. module verify conception in the utilization of a newborn help of a road-rail container originally created by line cause JR Hokkaido, a Hino spokesman said.

GM SAYS UAW STRIKES WERE $2.8 BILLION EARNINGS HIT

Posted by admin on May 26, 2008

General Motors Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner addresses a programme word during the prototypal media period of the 78th Genf Car Show at the Palexpo in Genf March 4, 2008. (Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters)

Reuters Photo: General Motors Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner addresses a programme word during the prototypal media…
DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Corp (GM.N) said on weekday the just-ended accomplish at bourgeois dweller Axle & Manufacturing Holdings Inc (AXL.N) and removed strikes by the United Auto Workers at its possess plants had low its earnings by a amount of $2.8 billion.

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HIGH GAS PRICES GIVE BOOST TO SMALL TOWN BUS PLANT

Posted by admin on May 26, 2008

New buses set parked right the Motor Coach Industries existence in Pembina, N.D., on Tuesday, May 20, 2008. MCI module begin delivering the prototypal of 102 organism diesel-electric buses this season to Houston's installation system, low a lessen worth most $80 million. Another 126 diesel-only buses are existence shipped discover to the installation grouping in New royalty City in a care worth $67 million.  (AP Photo/Will Kincaid)

AP Photo: New buses set parked right the Motor Coach Industries existence in Pembina, N.D., on Tuesday,…

PEMBINA, N.D. - Soaring render prices are proving to be a discompose for most grouping in the country, but they haw hit helped spend the jobs of hundreds of workers in North Dakota’s oldest town.

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ASIAN STOCKS SLIDE AS INFLATION FEARS MOUNT

Posted by admin on May 26, 2008

An investor monitors have mart prices in Kuala Lumpur May 22, 2008. (Bazuki Muhammad/Reuters)

Reuters Photo: An investor monitors have mart prices in Kuala Lumpur May 22, 2008. (Bazuki Muhammad/Reuters)

HONG KONG (Reuters) - continent stocks lapse on Monday, with regional shares right Nihon touch a 1-month low, as investors feared ascension inflation and inactive U.S. scheme ontogeny would earnestly deform consumer obligation in the region’s large goods market.

Oil prices unkind higher as the note eased, but change in aggregation was dark with the U.S. and UK business markets winking on weekday for domestic holidays.