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EBay, GM starts car-selling trial today
AP, San Francisco
Hundreds of General Motors' California dealers will let consumers haggle over the prices of new cars and trucks through the eBay online marketplace under a trial that begins Tuesday.
About 225 of California's 250 GM dealers are set to take part in the program. They will be selling Buick, Chevrolet, GMC and Pontiac vehicles on cobranded Web sites through eBay Inc.'s online auto marketplace, eBay Motors, until Sept. 8. The cars will also be searchable through eBay Motors and eBay's main site.
Although the companies previously said such a trial was in the works, details weren't released until Monday.
I he trial is part of Detroit-based General Motor Co.'s turnaround plan, making more official a practice some of its dealers had already participated in on their own. It expands an existing partnership covering GM certified used vehicles sold through eBay.
It also marks a shift for San Jose, Calif.-based eBay, since most of the vehicles sold on eBay Motors a site that sells various types of vehicles and auto parts have traditionally been used.
Starting Tuesday, eBay visitors will be able to visit Web pages like gm.ebay.com and chevy.ebay.com, where they can browse new 2008 and 2009 vehicles, ask dealers questions and figure out financing. Select 2010 models also will be available.
Dish Network Q2 profit falls on climbing costs
AP, Neu> York
Dish Network Corp said Monday that its second-quarter profit slid 81 percent onTiVo Inc litigation costs and rising expenses, but the nation's second-largest satellite TV provider managed to add subscribers and maintain revenue.
The Englewood, Colo-based company earned $63.4 million, or 14 cents per share, for the period ended June 30. That's down from $335.9 million, or 73 cents per share, last year.
Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters, whose estimates typically exclude one-time items, forecast profit of 67 cents per share.
Revenue was nearly flat at $2.90 billion, with prior-year revenue coming in at $2.91 billion. Analysts expected revenue would not stray far from year-ago results, predicting $2.91 billion for the current quarter.
Total costs and expenses rose to $2.64 billion, which included a TiVo litigation expense of $196.4 million. In a worst-case scenario, Dish's court battle withTiVo could force Dish to yank its digital video recorders over patent claims.
Subscriber acquisition costs increased to $388.3 million from $371.4 million, while general and administrative expenses grew to $ 143.5 million from $ 122.3 million.
Deflation raises worries for EU's ex-tigers
AFP, Vilnius
The spectre of deflation is raising new worries for the EU 's ex-communist Baltic tigers, long afflicted by rampant inflation that has now been smothered by the economic crisis.
July data released on Monday in Lithuania -- which is facing the deepest recession in the 27-nation European Union this year — showed that consumer prices had fallen for the fourth consecutive month.
Compared with June, prices dropped by 0.8 percent, figures from Lithuania's national statistics office showed, as part of a deflationary spiral that one analyst termed "a very deep hole’’ for the Lithuanian economy.
Prices fell 0.1 percent in April from March, 0.2 percent in May from April, and 0.3 percent in June from May.
Deflation - a sustained drop in prices -- may delight hard-pressed consumers but it can wreak havoc on the broader economy as households put off purchases, undermining demand and in turn investment in new production.
AFP
A Japanese woman holds an umbrella as she passes a share price board in Tokyo yesterday. The benchmark Nikkei-225 index gained 112.17 points or 1.08 percent, to 10,524.26, the best finish since October 3. The broader Topix index of all first section shares advanced 12.48 points, or 1.30 percent, to 969.24.
Credit crunch eases for
British businesses: CBI
A IP, London
Britain's reccssion-hit businesses are finding it easier to obtain credit but face higher costs of financing, according to a survey published on Monday by the Confederation of British Industry.
"The improvement in access to new credit will help many businesses struggling with the recession, and it is encouraging that its supply is expected to improve in the months ahead," CBI head Richard Lambert said.
"It is still unclear when bank lending will be flowing freely again, but for many firms credit conditions are at last moving in the right direction."
The business lobby group, which polled 73 firms in July, found that 27 percent believed that credit availability had improved in the last three months, while 10 percent said it had worsened.