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エクソンとシェルの７－９月期、大幅増益 原油急落と費用高騰で不透明感
Exxon, Shell Earnings Jump (WSJ.com)
Even as Exxon Mobil Corp. and Royal Dutch Shell PLC reported another round of enormous profits Thursday, Shell said it will postpone the expansion of a big energy project, in a sign that plunging crude prices and high costs are raising concerns among executives of the world's largest oil companies.
Shell said Thursday it would defer to an unspecified date a decision on whether to expand its Canadian oil-sands operation. It said the delay will give overheated costs there time to cool off.
Still, Shell said it was confident enough to push ahead on other projects, including several that investors ...
to plunge: 急落する
※Exxon Mobil Corporation Announces Estimated Third Quarter 2008: http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/exxonmobil/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&ndmConfigId=1001106&newsId=20081030005627&newsLang=en
Results 3rd Quarter 2008 results (Royal Dutch Shell PLC): http://www.shell.com/home/content/investor/news_and_library/press_releases/2008/q3_2008_results_newsitem_30102008.html
トヨタ、米国製大型車を中東・南米に輸出
Toyota Set to Export U.S.-Built Vehicles (WSJ.com)
Toyota Motor Corp. will begin exporting its U.S.-built Sequoia and Tundra vehicles to the Middle East and Latin America, the latest move by the Japanese auto maker to cope with excess capacity and sagging demand in the U.S. market.
This will be the first time Toyota exports the gas-guzzling Tundra pickup truck and the Sequoia sports-utility vehicle. The shipments are slated to start in December and come as total U.S. auto sales this year are expected to fall to the lowest levels since at least the early 1990s. The company expects to ship 15,000 Sequoias a year to the Middle East. Latin America is slated to get 150 units of the SUV and 1,000 Tundras.
Toyota had been on a tear in the U.S. gobbling market share from its domestic rivals, racking up profits and expanding its product line into the large-vehicle segment dominated by Detroit's auto makers. But as a weak economy, tightening credit conditions and surging gas prices kept consumers away from big-ticket purchases, Toyota was faced with a collapse in sales and more U.S. production capacity than it needs. Car sales in Latin American and the Middle East are doing better than other regions in the world.
excess capacity: 生産余力
sagging demand: 落ち込みが続く需要
米フォード、独自路線を行く 大型車工場で1000人増員
Ford Says It Can Make It Without a Merger (NYTimes.com)
DEARBORN, Mich. — With United States vehicle sales down nearly 13 percent this year, most car companies have been cutting production rather than increasing it.
But with 1,200 hourly workers cheering them on, top executives of the Ford Motor Company said Thursday at the ceremonial introduction of a new version of Ford’s most important product, the F-150 pickup, that they would call back 1,000 laid-off workers to help build more trucks.
Ford is moving faster than its rivals to replace its big, gas-guzzling S.U.V.’s with small cars. But any hope Ford has for a revival depends largely on strong sales of its new F-150 pickup. Sales of the F-150 have fallen nearly 27 percent this year, as consumers have fled from bigger vehicles of all types.
F-150 pickup: 31年間アメリカでベストセラーのトラック
to call back: 呼び戻す
laid-off worker: 一時解雇された従業員
英バークレイズ、自力で120億ドル増資 公的資金注入を回避へ
Barclays Strikes Private Deal for $12 Billion Infusion (WSJ.com)
LONDON -- Barclays PLC said Friday it is raising £7.3 billion ($12.02 billion) in capital from a number of Middle Eastern investors in a move that will enable the British bank to avoid taking government bailout funds.
The bank's new capital will come from about £4.3 billion in reserve capital instruments and £3 billion in mandatory convertible securities. The main investors are based in Qatar and Abu Dhabi and include Qatar Holding and Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
Barclays needs ...
infusion: 資本注入
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