The auto sector is “facing a ‘Bermuda triangle’ of threats: unfavorable economic conditions, disruptive forces, and changing consumer preferences'
In the current period of modest but steady global growth, financial distress has tended to concentrate in two sectors: retail and energy. Now, investors and analysts are growing more concerned that the global auto industry could join that group.
In a recent survey of restructuring experts by the global consulting firm AlixPartners, about a third of respondents named autos as one of the three most likely sectors to face distress in 2019, an increase of nearly five times from a year earlier. Retail and energy were the only...
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