By contrast, General Motors closed the door firmly on any possibility of a merger with smaller rival Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. For several months now, Fiat Chrysler's CEO Sergio Marchionne has been piling

General Motors surprised almost everyone with a 25% jump in operating profits for 3Q, on revenues up 6% - also higher than expected - to almost $36bn. Despite a slowdown in what is now its biggest market,

with "connected car" partnerships with Ford, GM and Jaguar Land Rover among others. In the news this past week: Agencies Former Saatchi & Saatchi CEO Kevin Roberts, currently network chairman and

Yet GM warned that the upturn might not last. "The Brexit vote has created a potentially significant headwind," said CFO Chuck Stevens. Apple's revenues fell for the second consecutive quarter, and

The US saved General Motors," Trump tweeted in a reference to the 2008 bailout, "and this is the THANKS we get! We are now looking at cutting all GM subsidies, including for electric cars." Unilever

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joining Japanese investor Softbank as a key supporter of GM Cruise, the self-driving technology being developed by General Motors. Honda will acquire will invest $2.75bn in the project, in return for

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and also negotiated a lavish €2bn payout from General Motors to exit a disastrous joint venture. Over the next four years, Marchionne engineered a startling turnaround of the business - the reinvention