TRUCKMAKERS NEWS * USA: Caterpillar's
* Illinois - Caterpillar slashes revenue forecast, cutting up to 10,000 jobs
-- Caterpillar Inc slashed its 2015 revenue forecast on Thursday and said it will cut as many as 10,000 jobs through 2018, joining a list of big U.S. industrial companies grappling with the mining and energy downturn... Shares of Caterpillar tumbled as much as 8 percent to a five-year low, pulling down the sector and knocking as much as 37 points off the Dow Jones industrial average, DJI... Over the past year, miners and energy companies have chopped budgets and put expansion projects on hold as prices of raw materials such as crude oil, copper, coal and iron ore have plunged to six-year lows amid lingering worries about oversupplies and China’s slowing economic growth. As a result, orders for equipment have dried up...
Peoria, ILL, USA - Reuters, by LISA VON AHN - Sep 24, 2015
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