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BMW shares drop after profit warning
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 01 - 08 - 2008

Shares in the world's leading luxury carmaker BMW AG dropped nearly 10 per cent Friday after the German-based group said it was cutting its earnings forecast for the year in the face of
a slowing world economy, increasing raw material costs and a weak
outlook for US sales, according to DPA.
"We now expect that the pretax return on sales for the year to be
at least 4 per cent," BMW chief Norbert Reithofer said releasing the
carmaker's latest figures. BMW had previously expected its 2008
pretax profit to top its 2007 level.
But the carmaker said in a statement: "Business conditions for the
automobile industry have deteriorated sharply over the past weeks,"
said BMW.
"Rising oil and raw-material prices, the weakness of the US
dollar, the impact of the international financial crisis and a weaker
US economy have made business conditions significantly more
difficult," BMW said.
"We assume that 2009 will be another difficult year," BMW grimly
predicted.
Last week Daimler AG, the manufacturer of Mercedes-Benz cars, said
it was also cutting its 2008 earnings as the economic difficulties
facing carmakers continued to mount.
The BMW move came after the group reported Friday that
second-quarter net profit fell 33 per cent to 507 million euros (790
million dollars) from 753 million in the same period last year.
Second-quarter BMW group sales edged down to 14.6 billion euros
from 14.7 billion euros as the fallout from the global financial
crisis continues to works it way through the world economy.
BMW's Second quarter pretax profit dropped 44 per cent to 602
million euros from 1.07 billion euros last year.
Shares in the Munich-based carmaker fell by 9.5 per cent to 24.18
euros following the announcement by BMW with the group's announcement
helping to drag down stocks of other leading German auto
manufacturers.
While luxury sports carmaker Porsche AG's shares slumped by about
5 per cent in early Frankfurt trading, Daimler's shares were down
about 4 per cent.


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