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Chrysler and the UAW reach a deal.
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Chrysler will contribute about $10 billion into a VEBA type trust. By this Chrysler can pass on $16 billion in healthcare obligations to the trust to be run by the UAW. New hires will be paid less in a two tier wage system. Chrysler will not sell Mopar part division thus keepig 2600 union jobs.
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Chrysler's job cuts would reduce its 2006 work force of 80000 employees by 30%. These are deep cuts, about 11000 cuts were announced yesterday and these are in the Michigan, Ontario, and Ohio plants. Sales for Chrysler are down 3% so far this year, but October sales were down 12.5 % on an adjusted basis compared to 2006.
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How the economic fallout from the mortgage lending business is affecting Cerberus new owner of Chrysler. GMAC in which Feinberg's Cerberus has a 51% stake has losses of $2.3 billion in the 3rd quarter at ResCap, home lending unit of GMAC. Aegis Mortgage corporation a firm owned by Cerberus filed for bankruptcy protection in August. As a result of all this fallout Cerberus is taking a hard look at all its committments and is pulling out of its committment to acquire United Rentals. And the sale of $4 billion in loans connected with Cerberus deal for Chrysler has been postponed because of lack of interest in credit markets.
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The sale of $4 billion in loans connected to Cerberus's acquisition of Chrysler has been postponed because of sluggish credit market conditions and shortage of buyers.
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The difficulties Cerberus is having selling $4 billion of the debt it incurred in buying Chrysler and its pullout of the United Rentals deal are signs that private equity deals are fraying. The credit crunch looks like its going to get a lot worse. And sales of cars are expected to decline from the present 16 million for the year to 15.5 according to Jerry York a former GM board member, and 14.5-15.0 million according to John Stallkamp a former Chrysler president. There is a difficult year ahead for the auto companies and for the economy in general.
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Interview with Nardelli of Chrysler. Chrysler has a difficult situation ahead of it.
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Chrysler Financial ends its lease program and under new negotiations with lending banks is expected to pay a pemium of 2 percentage points above LIBOR, three times the "spread" it paid last year.
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What if car buyers have to pay all cash absent the ability for people with good credit to get loans, a scary development for the auto companies. Analysts say tight credit was a crucial factor in the 27% drop in September sales. About 31% of all nonluxury sales in the last week of September were all cash deals, says Libby chief market analyst JD Powers. And down payments are much higher than before. Abd lease deals are dropping from 16% till late July 2008 to 9% in the last week of September 2008. Whats unprecedented is that buyers with credit scores in the upper 700's are being turned down and that is sure to trigger even more declines in the next few months. And dealerships are closing 600 of 20,770 already losed this year.
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