posted by admin on Feb 9
Nissan sank into a loss for the fiscal third quarter and forecast its first full-year loss in nearly a decade on Monday, forcing Japan’s third-biggest automaker to slash 20,000 jobs, or 8.5 percent of its global work force.
The global auto industry is in turmoil, and Nissan is no exception. Nissan Motor Co. now expects a 265 billion yen ($2.9 billion) net loss for the fiscal year through March, the first time in nine years it’s tumbling into an annual loss.
The maker of the Z sports car and the March compact reported a net loss of 83.2 billion yen for the October-December period, a reversal from the 132.2 billion yen profit it earned the same period the previous year. That was its first quarterly net loss since it began reporting quarterly earnings in 2003.
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