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Nissan lifts U.S. output of electric Leaf as sales rise

Nissan lifts U.S. output of electric Leaf as sales rise
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DETROIT Tue Jan 14, 2014 2:34pm EST

A Nissan Motor logo is seen at the company’s global headquarters in Yokohama, south of Tokyo April 7, 2010.

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DETROIT (Reuters) – Nissan Motor Co Ltd (7201.T) has lifted U.S. production of its all-electric Leaf by about 50 percent to 3,000 units a month to meet growing demand for the car, the head of the Japanese automaker’s North American operations said on Tuesday.

Jose Munoz said the Leaf logged record sales of 2,500 units in December and was now the best-selling car in some dealerships in Atlanta, where the government is helping promote the technology, outpacing the Altima sedan.

“This car somehow some years ago was not so appealing in terms of the business for the dealers,” Munoz told a group of reporters at the Detroit auto show. “Now the dealers are very positive, they are making business, they are selling cars.”

The pickup in sales was driven in large part by Nissan’s decision to cut its price by more than $ 6,000 to $ 29,650 at the beginning of last year after a shift in production of the model to the United States allowed it to lower manufacturing costs.

Demand for electric vehicles has generally failed to live up to expectations set when models like the Leaf and General Motors Co’s (GM.N) gasoline-electric hybrid Volt were being developed.

Carlos Ghosn, the CEO of Nissan and its French partner Renault SA (RENA.PA), recently pushed back by two to three years an initial target to sell a combined 1.5 million vehicles by March 2017.

While volumes are still at relatively low levels for a production car — sales more than doubled last year to above 22,000 in the U.S. market — Munoz said momentum was building.

One factor is the increase in charging stations in Atlanta and cities such as Seattle and San Francisco on the West Coast. There are currently 554 quick-charging stations, and more than 15,000 slower “level 2″ public charging stations across the U.S., Nissan estimates.

“In those areas where we have been able to work together with the government to develop the infrastructure is where we are seeing that the vehicle is really selling well,” Munoz said.

The Leaf’s customer base is also evolving. While at first most Leaf buyers were green enthusiasts, increasingly customers focused on the potential cost benefits of owning an electric car are showing up at its dealerships, Munoz said.

As a result, it has recently increased prices on some versions of the Leaf, Munoz said.

Nissan produces the Leaf at its Smyrna, Tennessee plant.

(Reporting by Nathan Layne; editing by Andrew Hay)

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Emerging markets hit after Fed, data lifts European shares

1 of 7. A pedestrian holding an umbrella walks past a stock quotation board displaying various stock prices outside a brokerage in Tokyo July 29, 2013.

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By Wayne Cole

SYDNEY | Wed Aug 21, 2013 10:30pm EDT

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Asian markets were thrown a lifeline on Thursday when surprisingly strong data on China’s huge manufacturing sector helped offset rising U.S. bond yields, lifting currencies and shares from deep early lows.

Assets across the region had been under heavy pressure after minutes from the Federal Reserve’s July policy meeting showed it was still on track to start tapering stimulus as early as next month, sending Treasury yields to two-year highs.

But hopes for a pick-up in China were rekindled when HSBC said its preliminary purchasing managers’ index rose to 50.1 in August, a five-month high and just above the 50 level that separates growth from contraction.

“This is mainly driven by the initial filtering-through of recent fine-tuning measures and companies’ restocking activities, despite the continuous external weakness,” said Hongbin Qu, chief China economist at HSBC.

“We expect further filtering-through, which is likely to deliver some upside surprises to China’s growth in the coming months.”

The prospect of an improvement in the world’s second biggest economy helped Shanghai shares recoup early losses to trade 0.4 percent firmer .SSEC. Japan’s Nikkei .N225 clawed its way back to flat having been down over 1.3 percent.

Also helping was a Reuters poll showing Japanese manufacturers’ optimism improved to the highest level in three years, as a weak yen boosted earnings for exporters of textiles, chemicals, steel and other metals.

Elsewhere in the region shares were still down, but off their lows. The MSCI’s index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan .MIAPJ0000PUS was 0.7 percent easier, while Korean stocks halved their losses to be down 0.5 percent .KS11.

The Philippine market, which had been closed by bad weather the last few days, caught up with the action by shedding 6.6 percent .PSI.

The upbeat Chinese news also helped lift the Australian dollar half a cent to $ 0.8990. Around 70 percent of Australia’s exports go to Asia and its currency is free- floating and liquid, so investors often use it as a proxy against emerging market risk.

Other currencies in the region also benefited, though most remained down on the day. Malaysia’s ringgit fell to its lowest in more than three years before steadying somewhat at 3.3145 per dollar.

WATCHING US YIELDS

Markets from India to Indonesia have been under intense stress from expectations Western investors will repatriate funds now that yields at home are rising.

Expectations of economic recovery in the United States and Europe also tends to make assets there more attractive, heightening the competition for global savings.

The prospect of the Fed tapering its stimulus in the next few months sent 10-year U.S. Treasury yields up to 2.92 percent, a level last seen in July 2011. The break of a major chart bulwark at 2.90 percent could see the market quickly test 3 percent, which itself is a huge psychological marker.

Treasury yields tend to set the benchmark for borrowing costs across the globe, so the rise will make it more difficult for indebted countries and companies to pay their bills.

“Given that the recent capital outflows have been mainly triggered by yield differentials, the higher Treasury yields mean that there is unlikely to be a quick turnaround in Asian currencies, especially those economies with current account deficits,” said Frances Cheung, a strategist with Credit Agricole in Hong Kong.

She listed India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand as the most vulnerable. “The story about capital outflows could persist for a while.”

The prospect of further increases in U.S. yields gave the U.S. dollar a lift across the board. The euro was back at $ 1.3338, from a high of $ 1.3452 on Wednesday, while the dollar pushed higher to 98.20 yen.

The dollar index, which measures the greenback versus a basket of six currencies, rose to 81.493 .DXY, from a low of 80.896.

Commodities rallied in the wake of the Chinese data. Gold was hovering at $ 1,364.36 an ounce and copper bounced 1 percent to $ 7,332.0 a ton.

U.S. crude oil futures were off a slim 6 cents at $ 103.78 a barrel, while Brent crude oil eased 22 cents to $ 109.59.

(Editing by Eric Meijer)

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Emerging markets hit after Fed, data lifts European shares