Honda is willing to resume takeover talks to form the world's fourth-biggest carmaker, provided Nissan CEO Makoto Uchida steps down, the Financial Times reported on Monday, citing sources familiar with the discussions.
HMC reports better-than-expected fiscal Q3 results and expects fiscal 2025 sales volumes from the Motorcycle & Automobile to increase year over year.
The S&P 500 is near its all-time high. The deadline for funding the U.S. government is rapidly approaching with no budget deal finalized yet.
Japanese automaker Honda reported a 7% decline in profit for the nine months that ended in December on Thursday as it terminated talks on integrating its business with Nissan.Tokyo-based Honda Motor Co. said its motorcycles business was strong, but its auto sales suffered in China and Japan, while demand stayed solid in the U.S.Honda's April-December 2024 profit totaled 805 billion yen ($5 billion), down from 869.6 billion yen the same period in 2023.Nine-month sales gained nearly 9% to 16.3 trillion yen ($106 billion).Honda and Japanese rival Nissan Motor Corp., along with the smaller Mitsubishi Motors Corp., said in December that they were in talks to set up a joint holding company.The automakers said Thursday they were ending the talks, although existing collaborations in electric vehicles and smart cars will continue.
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The $60 billion mega-merger between Honda and Nissan has been called off, in part because of Nissan's “pride and insufficient alarm about its predicament,” writes Reuters, citing half a dozen sources.
The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Thursday it had opened an engineering analysis into 129,092 U.S. Honda Motor vehicles after receiving reports of camera failure.
As widely expected, Honda and Nissan have ended discussions about a potential merger but will continue working together on electric vehicle (EV) development. The two Japanese automakers, along with Mitsubishi, had considered joining forces to compete with rising Chinese EV manufacturers.
Honda and Nissan initially wanted to finalize an agreement by June.
This confirms earlier reports by Reuters that said Nissan "looks set to step back from" merger talks with rival Honda. Shares of Honda gained 2.14% on Thursday, while Nissan stock slipped 0.34%.
Japan's Honda Motor said on Thursday its third-quarter operating profit increased 5% from a year earlier, helped by strong U.S. vehicle sales and a weak yen.
Honda Motor's (HMC) U.S.-listed shares are rising about 6% in premarket trading following reports that the Japanese automaker's plans to merge with ailing domestic rival Nissan are in jeopardy.