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GM looks to cash in on Chinese venture

The US carmaker will sell majority control to Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation, its partner in the country

Peugeot and Mitsubishi near electric car pact

Deal would create world's sixth-biggest carmaker and is designed to rescue Japanese company from financial calamity

Peugeot in talks to rescue Mitsubishi

Mitsubishi Motors may receive a capital injection from the French carmaker as part of a deal to form an alliance

GM chief's daughter takes online revenge

Within hours of Fritz Henderson's exit, an expletive-packed post from his daughter appeared on the GM Facebook page

Northrop and EADS question Pentagon terms

Aerospace companies say that conditions for $40 billion contract for manufacture of aircraft refuelling tankers favour Boeing

Obama was behind sacking of GM's Henderson

Ed Whitacre's appointment as chief executive was blessed by the White House, which has not learnt how to do ownership-lite

Opel finance chief exits in latest GM shake-up

Marco Molinari follows Fritz Henderson out of the US car giant as Germany criticises its restructuring plan

Siemens ex-chiefs in bribe scandal payouts

Two former chief executives are among the latest batch of former employees to pay damages after a corruption scandal

GM chief ousted after boardroom coup

General Motors, the troubled US car giant, makes a sudden shift of direction and axes Fritz Henderson after eight months

US car sales show signs of stabilising

Carmakers continue to rely on discounts and other incentives to sell cars and trucks such as cash for clunkers subsidies

Former Morgan Crucible boss goes to top court

Retired chief executive Ian Norris, 66, is fighting attempt by the US to extradite him on charges of obstructing justice

Vauxhall cuts Luton jobs as it seeks partner

More than 350 jobs will go as management and union leaders seek to find a way to keep the plant open beyond 2012