Chrysler Still Bleeds Money

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Chrysler still bleeds money based on its third quarter earnings release. The numbers stand in contrast to recent profits reported by GM, Ford Motor (NYSE: F), and Toyota (NYSE: TM). The figures show how far the No.3 US car company, which has less than 10% of the American market, has to go.

Chrysler’s net revenue increased to $11.0 billion in Q3 2010, up 5.2% from Q2, Its net Loss was reduced to $84 million from $172 million in Q2 2010.

Worldwide vehicle shipments buy Chrysler in Q3 2010 were only 407,000 units, a decrease of 6% versus Q2 2010. U.S. vehicle shipments totaled 301,000 compared to 305,000 in the prior quarter.

Douglas A. McIntyre

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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