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G.M. Reports a $3.1 Billion Loss
By MICHELINE MAYNARD 8:27 AM ET
It made money from operations, but took a raft of accounting charges in the second quarter.

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He met with a raft of troubles last year.
去年,他遇到了許多麻煩。

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July 26, 2006
G.M. Reports a $3.1 Billion Loss
By MICHELINE MAYNARD
General Motors said today that it lost $3.1 billion overall during the second quarter. It made money from operations, but took a raft of accounting charges in the quarter related to employee buyouts and the sale of its financing arm, resulting in the big net loss.

G.M. also reported an $85 million loss on its North American operations, the focus of a turnaround effort by the company’s chief executive, Rick Wagoner. The loss was offset by profits overseas.

The earnings report comes at a time when G.M. is in negotiations over a possible alliance with Renault of France and Nissan of Japan, both headed by Carlos Ghosn. The alliance talks were spurred by G.M.’s biggest shareholder, Kirk Kerkorian, whose associates have expressed frustration with G.M.’s pace of progress in righting itself.

The loss reported today was more than three times the size of the $987 million loss G.M. reported in the second quarter a year ago, when Mr. Wagoner personally took charge of developing a restructuring plan for the company. The new loss is equivalent to $5.62 a share, compared with $1.75 a share last year.

Excluding the accounting charges, G.M. said it earned $1.1 billion, or $2.08 a share, in the second quarter, compared with an adjusted loss of $235 million, or 41 cents a share, in the comparable period last year.

G.M. does not issue earnings guidance; most analysts had forecast a smaller second-quarter profit, excluding the special charges.

The earnings report revealed that 34,400 members of the United Automobile Workers union accepted buyouts or incentives to leave the company in the quarter, a crucial part of Mr. Wagoner’s turnaround effort. G.M. took a charge of $1.4 billion to reflect the cost.

Last November, G.M. announced plans to close all or part of a dozen factories by the end of 2008, and eliminate 30,000 jobs. G.M. also is paying most of the cost of buyouts for workers at Delphi Corporation, its biggest parts supplier, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in October. Delphi was spun off from G.M. in 1999.

Including the charges, G.M. said it lost $3.5 billion on its primary automotive business, compared with a $1.79 billion loss last year. It earned $409 million on its financing operations, down from $808 million last year.

G.M. said that globally, its market share fell to 13.8 percent