DaimlerChrysler lowers stake in Airbus parent
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DaimlerChrysler  has placed a 7.5 percent stake in EADS  with a public-private consortium in a 1.5-billion-euro ($1.95-billion) deal that maintains the Franco-German balance of power at the aerospace firm.
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Airbus, the European airliner maker caught in a five-month crisis over restructuring and cutbacks, faced a watershed on Wednesday with the announcement of the plan to make huge cost savings and reorganise the business.
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Fitch Ratings on Friday downgraded the European aerospace giant EADS, the parent group of planemaker Airbus, due to "pressure" on its earnings margins and cash flow generation.
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The board of Airbus parent EADS approved a restructuring plan for the troubled European aircraft maker Monday, breaking a weeklong deadlock over job cuts and future jet programs between France and Germany.Comment
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Shares in Airbus parent firm EADS fall by almost 4% after the firm shelves a freight version of its A380 plane.
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Shares of DaimlerChrysler AG fell yesterday after Nissan officials said the Renault-Nissan auto alliance is not interested in buying the German-American automaker's money-losing Chrysler division.
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FRANKFURT, Germany (International Herald-Tribune) - Automaker Daimler AG, which sold off most of its stake in Chrysler this year, posted a loss of $2.18 billion for the third quarter on Thursday, largely because of write-offs related to the undoing of its merger with Chrysler. Analysts had expected a loss, given the Chrysler sale.  Excluding the one-time charges, the company said it would have posted profits of 1.1 billion euros ($1.57 billion).  Shares of Daimler rose 1.4 percent to 75.37 euros ($107.25) in Frankfurt.
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The government, goaded by presidential candidates into responding to large job cuts at the airplane maker Airbus, said it was ready to pump cash into the company and shake up a Franco-German power-sharing pact. Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin also called on the parent of Airbus, the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company, to abandon paying a dividend this year to its shareholders, which include the French government, after announcing plans to cut 10,000 jobs. Some 4,300 of those jobs are in France. Mr. Villepin, above, said the government stood ready to participate if the holding company decided to tap its shareholders for more cash through a capital increase to shore up a company badly hit by delays to the new Airbus A380 superjumbo airliner. âThe state will play its role,â he said. However, EADSâs biggest private shareholder, the German car company DaimlerChrysler, has battled for years to prevent what it regards as state meddling.
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PARIS/MELBOURNE  - The world's airlines were forced to review growth plans and investors hammered the shares of Airbus parent EADS  on Wednesday after the European planemaker again pushed back deliveries of its A380 superjumbo.
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BAE Systems will agree to sell its 20 percent stake in Airbus to the Franco-German aerospace firm EADS for 1.9 billion pounds.
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EADS shares fell sharply Wednesday as investment banks slashed their ratings on the stock after the parent company of planemaker Airbus extended to two years the production delay for its superjumbo A380 jet.Comment
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Two of Germany's seven Airbus plants are to be sold as part of a restructuring programme designed to cut costs at the European planemaker, the newspaper Bild reported Tuesday.Comment
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Automaker Daimler AG, which sold off most of its stake in Chrysler this year, posted a loss of $2.18 billion for the third quarter on Thursday, largely because of write-offs related to the deal.
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Airbus has withdrawn its challenge to  a European Union antitrust ruling against Microsoft Corp. only  days after the aircraft maker's intervention became public, the  Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing unnamed sources.
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BAE Systems advised its shareholders to sell the British defence group's 20 percent stake in Airbus to the Franco-German aerospace firm EADS for 2.75 billion euros (3.5 billion dollars).
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BERLIN -- DaimlerChrysler AG said Friday it sold a third of its stake in EADS, the parent company of planemaker Airbus, to a private investment group in a deal that will maintain the balance between German and ...Comment
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Roechling Industrie Verwaltung, the holding company of the Roechling family, said that it had decided to sell its stake in the German automotive and defence technology specialist Rheinmetall.