GM Posts $6 Billion Loss for First Quarter, Burns Through $10.2 Billion

May 07, 2009 0 Replies

GM looses a lot of taxpayers money. What a sink hole of wealth being porked out for a dinosaur. Of course consumers are concerned...the sooner GM does chapter 11 to right itself the better off everyone will be except the people consuming the pork spending.



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Posts $6 Billion Loss for First Quarter, Burns Through $10.2 Billion DETROIT -- General Motors Corp. posted a $6 billion first-quarter loss and said it burned through $10.2 billion of cash in the first three months of the year as revenue plummeted by $20 billion.



Chief Financial Officer Ray Young said talk of the company going into Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection appeared to have scared some consumers away from buying GM vehicles. GM faces a June 1 government deadline to finish a restructuring plan or go into bankruptcy protection.



GM's loss for the quarter amounted to $9.78 a share, compared with a loss of $3.3 billion, or $5.80 a share in...


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