| | Nissan Motor Co's jailed ex-chairman, Carlos Ghosn, vowed to restore his good name in court after a month in detention, Japanese public broadcaster NHK said on Friday, quoting his lawyer. | | | In the nearly 40 years she has spent in trade, Amy Magnus has never seen retailers hoarding so much inventory. | | | U.S. stocks slid on Thursday, with the Nasdaq on the cusp of confirming bear market territory, as the Federal Reserve's plan to continue its balance sheet reduction and the threat of a partial government shutdown fueled investor anxieties. | | | Japanese carmaker Nissan Motor Co Ltd will lay off about 1,000 workers in Mexico at two factories, citing "challenging market conditions," the company said on Thursday. | | | Nike Inc's quarterly revenue and profit beat Wall Street estimates on Thursday, as it benefited from selling more items online at full price in North America, sending the shares of the world's largest footwear maker up 8 percent. | | | The Nasdaq Composite Index , known for its high-profile technology and internet companies, closed no more than a rounding error from bear market territory on Thursday. | | | Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk raised hopes again on Thursday that he could ride to the rescue of a threatened General Motors Co car plant at the center of a political storm about auto jobs, and GM replied, saying the Ohio factory's fate depends on union talks next year. | | | General Motors Co will respond by Jan. 7 to a Canadian union's proposals for keeping an Ontario auto assembly plant open, the head of Canada's largest private sector union said on Thursday. | | | U.S. banking regulators announced on Thursday they had signed off on "living wills" for four foreign banks - Barclays , Credit Suisse , Deutsche Bank and UBS - detailing how they could safely be dissolved in a crisis. | | | Oleg Deripaska's team, which secured the lifting of U.S. sanctions on the Russian tycoon's aluminum and energy businesses, is also working to get them removed from his automaker GAZ , five sources close to the talks said. | | | | |