NSANF News and Press, Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. From 08/16/19

Following a weak close to 2018, Nissan’s ( OTCPK:NSANY ) 2019 has been very poor in the unit sales department. For the first seven months of 2019, Nissan’s U.S. unit sales are down 8.3%, which is a huge decline for such a broad-based mainstream brand: Nissan Group reports July...

Jaguar Land Rover will build its new all-electric Jaguar XJ car in the UK. The auto-giant made the announcement earlier today, giving a needed boost to the UK’s rattled car-industry. Here’s what we know. Jaguar Land Rover Jaguar has gone against the grain by bringing pro...

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV ( FCAU ) announced on Monday (May 27th) that it had proposed a merger to Renault SA ( RNSDF ; RNLSY ). Hereafter I will refer to the companies as "Renault" and "FCA" respectively. The combined company would become the third largest vehicle manufacturer in the w...

Summary Let me start by saying that I'm fully aware of Tesla's ( TSLA ) stressed liquidity condition, and I'm not a Tesla bull - not at all. Nonetheless, if we put the liquidity stance aside for a minute - something that the company can (still) overcome, relatively easily, at this stage - ...

The Hyundai-Kia Group ( OTCPK:HYMLF ), which also includes the Genesis luxury brand, is in competition for being the world’s fourth-largest automaking group. The three largest are of course Volkswagen (VLKAF), Nissan-Renault-Mitsubishi (NSANY) and Toyota (TM): Toyota extends its earl...

Introduction In last week's edition of Focus on Europe , we zoomed in on Brussels-listed Bekaert ( BEKAY ) ( BEKSF ) which has to deal with an increasing net debt and deteriorating margins. Despite the headwinds, Bekaert's dividend was only cut marginally and pretty much the entire free...

When we think “Ford” ( F ) and “sales success” - the F-series pickup trucks immediately come to mind. Ford is essentially tied with General Motors ( GM ) in terms of U.S. pickup truck sales, although RAM ( FCAU ) is recently doing its best to chase the two volume ...

The first month of 2019 came to an end, and so we have to talk about the electric car market in Norway again. And Tesla ( TSLA ), given it's the main pure stock play on this market. First, Norway. This little country of barely five million people recently passed 200,000 battery-electric vehi...

For years, the question of eventual competition has dogged the Tesla ( TSLA ) debate. A number of full battery electric vehicles (“BEV”) have come on the market in the past couple years, but none has managed to make much of a dent in Tesla’s position as market leader. Inde...

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