ABC News Bleak Sales in December Cap a Grim Year for Automakers New York Times, United States - By NICK BUNKLEY DETROIT в Vehicle sales in the United States tumbled more than 35 percent in December, dragging the Detroit automakersв full-year totals ... December Auto Sales Ugly Troubled GM Still Outsells Toyota For auto industry, 2009 holds even tighter ad budgets -

Reuters GE Capital to Raise $10 Billion in Sale of FDIC Notes Bloomberg - The sale will include $2 billion of two-year notes, $5.5 billion of 3.5-year debt and $2.5 billion of 18-month securities, according to a person familiar ... GE's finance arm launches $10 bln FDIC-backed debt

The Associated Press Borders Names New Chief After Holiday Sales Fell 12% Bloomberg - 5 (Bloomberg) -- Borders Group Inc., the money-losing US bookstore chain that tried to sell itself last year, replaced top management after holiday sales ... Borders Shuffles Management as Sales Fall Borders Group says Jones out, Marshall in as CEO Borders Replaces Its Chief Amid Sales Decline -

Telegraph.co.uk Marks & Spencer, Next May Say Sales Decline Worsened Bloomberg - 5 (Bloomberg) -- Marks & Spencer Group Plc and Next Plc, Britainв s two largest fashion retailers, may report worsening sales declines this week after ... Gloomy reports on Christmas trading M&S expected to report worst Christmas trading in a decade Retail giants to reveal misery of next 12 months -

Boston Globe GM, Chrysler May Lead Sales Slide to Cap 16-Year Low Bloomberg - Sales dropped 48 percent from a year earlier at Chrysler, 41 percent at GM and 33 percent at Ford Motor Co., based on the average estimates of six analysts ... Bottom line: 2008 car truck sales probably worst since 1974