| Top 10 Auto Manufacturer Websites: September 2009 Marketing Charts submits: click to enlarge Note: The Hitwise data featured is based on US market share of visits as defined by the IAB, which is the percentage of online traffic to the domain or category, from the Hitwise sample of 10 million US internet users. Hitwise measures more than 1 million unique websites on a daily basis, including sub-domains of larger websites. Hitwise categorizes websites into industries on the basis of subject matter and content, as well as market orientation and competitive context. The market share of visits percentage does not include traffic for all sub-domains of certain websites that could be reported on separately.Complete Story » seekingalpha.com |
Lockheed Martin Awarded $842 Million F-16 Contract by Morocco Zacks.com submits: Lockheed Martin Corporation (LMT) was awarded a contract worth $841.9 million for supplying 24 F-16 Fighting Falcon jet fighters and related equipment for the government of Morocco. This will boost the Aeronautics segment which in recent time had witnessed lower volume from the F-22 program. The F-16 Fighting Falcon jet fighter aircraft was developed by General Dynamics Corporation (GD) in 1976. However in 1993, General Dynamics sold its aircraft manufacturing business to Lockheed Martin. Complete Story » seekingalpha.com |
Calculating the Value of a Container Shipping Company Arjun Rudra submits:Containerized shipping deals with the transportation of mainly finished goods by sea. Containers are usually twenty foot equivalent (Teu) and forty foot equivalent (Feu) boxes. Theses boxes come in different forms such as standard, high cube, open top, flat rack, hard top, refrigerated, etc. Container shipping is a cyclical and capital intensive industry.Click to enlarge:Complete Story » seekingalpha.com |
Electric Cars and Oil Demand John Lounsbury submits:Green crusaders have long offered a scenario where electric vehicles would diminish the burning of fossil fuels. Other analysts have suggested that the impact on oil consumption will be negligible because of limited driving ranges for all-electric vehicles.A Reuters report by Fang Yan and Jacqueline Wong quotes the Shanghai Securities News. The News says that China is increasing from 13 to 20 cities the participants in a pilot program to subsidize the purchase of clean energy public transport vehicles. The report also says that a new program will be unveiled shortly to pay purchase incentives to private auto buyers amounting to approximately $8,800 for pure plug-in electric vehicles, approximately $7,300 for plug-in hybrid vehicles and about $440 for traditional hybrids. China had previously announced a program for incentives in five cities. Nothing is indicated about the geographic extent of the new program.Complete Story » seekingalpha.com |
O'Reilly Automotive Q2 2010 Earnings Call Transcript O'Reilly Automotive (ORLY)Q2 2010 Earnings CallJuly 29, 2010 11:00 am ETComplete Story » seekingalpha.com |