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It had never wanted to sell Opel, which despite being lossmaking is GM's main repository of expertise in technologies for smaller cars.

Finma has since said it would be "out of the question" for the lossmaking bank to pursue such a transaction amid current market instability.

No wonder those billions of lossmaking contracts subsequently came as such a shock.

They were allowed to sell lossmaking lines to new short-haul railroads.

Rental fees could provide the lossmaking unit, which at present relies on advertising, with an important new revenue stream.

The regulatory environment tightened, raising costs. Billions were spent bailing out lossmaking nuclear-power companies.

But, outside Germany and Switzerland, Europe's freight rail services are a fragmented, lossmaking mess.

It shed four lossmaking brands including Hummer and Saturn but held on to Buick and GMC, its truck brand, for dubious reasons.

The result followed a lossmaking first quarter when it wrote down SFr5. 3bn, partly due to a losses on a trading scandal.

Inefficient and lossmaking companiesdie and cause havoc for owners, staff and customers.

They can become flabby and lossmaking, as in the case of Japan's keiretsu.

The lossmaking car company's share price was trading 1. 5 per cent higher at $8. 36 yesterday afternoon after news of the sale emerged.

The number of lossmaking government enterprises has fallen over this decade, from 110 in 2001 to 53 in 2008.

Shares in Japan's mostly lossmaking carmakers continue to outpace the broader Tokyo stock market.