"The global companies offer better valuations and higher yields than the domestics, " he says.
Meanwhile, GM recalled 500, 000 vehicles, and Chrysler, usually tagged as having the worst quality among the domestics, recalled 773, 000.
Of the domestics, the stately and comfortable Ford Fusion and Lincoln MKZ sedans seem to hold up the best.
So, less concerned about the UAW, Toyota has decided not to pin wages at its new plants to the domestics' wages.
And the domestics were undercutting Nokia and Motorola by 25% on price.
Light trucks have been another story: The domestics have flourished, keeping their pickup truck, minivan and SUV plants running at 86% of capacity.
Even worse for the domestics, the new foreign plants are flexible--they can quickly switch from making SUVs to minivans or cars if the market changes.
"Hyundai has to realize that the domestics are not going to make room for them like they did for the Japanese, " warns industry consultant Maryann Keller.
The domestics learned the hard way that ceding one segment of the market, even a historically unprofitable one like small cars, means ceding customers who don't come back.
Gleeson is as reliably rooted as ever, depicting a boozy and bearded quack named Holloran, who dines with the guests but, when the fancy moves him, breakfasts with the domestics one of whom, moreover, he gorges on in bed.
The earthy domestics who toil long hours in his apartment building live together in squalid quarters on the sixth floor, and their plight awakens Jean-Louis's long-dormant sense of justice.
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Van Eck Global is back to making its case for small cap companies in the big emerging markets, this time putting Russian domestics in the spotlight.
While foreign refiners could pick up some slack, domestics would essentially control the market.
He sees himself going up against Budweiser and other mid-market domestics, primarily in the southwest.
At the time, 46 percent of the city's population were low-income construction workers, domestics, drivers and street sellers squatting on land on the outskirts of the city of 350, 000, 150 miles east of Mexico City.
But of the 7.2m Brazilians working as domestics, nearly all are women women who have more options than ever before.
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She won the case and now heads Indonesia Group, a support organization for domestics.
Minuto, owner of Hampton Domestics, says he gets regular calls from people wanting to escape from the office.
Several Japanese auto makers in the U.S., which abandoned Japanese production because of the high yen, say they will soon become net exporters from the U.S., hiring Americans to build cars for export even as "domestics" like GM move toward Chinese imports.
Foreigners can export gasoline, but domestics are much closer to their markets and can respond quickly to shifting demand for the increasingly complicated fuel blends required by various states.
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