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Yesterday, China's Zheijang Geely Holding Group purchased Volvo cars from Ford (F) for $1.8 billion. The Wall Street Journal, among others, is touting this acquisition as proof that China's economic rise is "reshaping large swaths of global business, as its huge market and increasingly powerful companies play a growing role in industries from cars to natural resources to telecommunications equipment."

Geely is the first Chinese company that will be in charge of a global auto brand. That said, I think we need to give some praise to Ford CEO Alan Mulally.

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Most of this past week the stock market was erratic. News from Asian and American Markets was generally positive, sending the indexes higher, until unsettling news from the European Union let the air out of the tires, resulting in 100 point swings of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which ended Friday up about 50 points for the week at 10,850.36.

Each day started upbeat and then we would hear about Greek debt, bonds coming due, Germany pushing for IMF participation in any plan to help Greece. Finally when this looked to be settled, we then got news of economic turmoil in Portugal. This activity stimulated me to write the following recent commentary:

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Ford is near a deal to sell its Volvo cars to Chinese automaker Geely for $2 billion dollars. A definitive sale agreement could be signed in the first quarter of 2010.

Geely is one of China's largest privately owned automakers. The Geely takeover would leapfrog China's present small car production. Geely would be able to use Swedish technology and adapt it to their present production.

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Geely Leopard Five Chinese manufacturers are fielding display automobiles at the 2008 North American Auto Show. Amid a flurry of drab Chinese displays, misspelled promotional materials and one unscheduled auto tour through an ongoing press conference, China is presenting vehicles in the hope that the American auto-buying public will take them for real. I wonder how they feel about this at General Motors (NYSE: GM), Ford Motors (NYSE: F), Toyota (NYSE: TM), and Chrysler.

This influx of Chinese auto manufacturers represents a 400% increase in their presence at the auto show over just two years ago. Should the big auto makers be scared yet? This blogger hardly thinks so, yet the above picture is the Geely-Beauty Leopard, an automobile of Chinese manufacture which has been marketed quite successfully in Europe since 2002.

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