Honda sees full-year profit down 59 per cent
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Honda Airways Facility in Japan Honda Airways, subsidiary of Honda Motor Company, is now the Authorized Sales Representative (ASR) of Honda Aircraft Company in Japan. This development in the HondaJet sales network enhances the HondaJet onboarding process for owners and operators in Japan.
Honda Motor Co. is expecting a ¥450 billion ($3 billion) hit to its full-year profit as it braces for the fallout of US President Donald Trump’s auto tariffs, joining rivals reeling from the trade war.
President Trump’s trade war again tests Canada’s new government. Honda is also postponing a major electric vehicle factory in Canada.
Honda has reported its profit for the fiscal year through March slipped 24.5% from the previous year as its vehicle sales in China dropped.
Industry Minister Mélanie Joly says Honda Canada remains "fully committed" to major electric-vehicle investments in Canada after the company announced Tuesday that it was pausing a multibillion-dollar EV project in Ontario.
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Honda is the latest automaker to warn of a massive hit to its profits as a result of President Trump's auto tariffs.
Two major Japanese automakers have warned that earnings will be hit hard by U.S. tariffs, underlining the risk of an industrywide downturn that could stunt Japan’s economic recovery.
U.S. equities were mixed at midday, with tech shares and a better-than-expected consumer inflation report lifting the S&P 500 and Nasdaq.
A parked Honda Fit was completely gutted by fire on Thursday morning at Manyenziwe Shopping Centre in Nkulumane 12 after a gas cylinder inside the vehicle
Tariffs could cost Japan's second-largest automaker up to 650 billion yen this financial year—equivalent to $4.4 billion and almost half last year’s profit. Reporting results Tuesday, Honda forecast a roughly two-thirds slide in operating profit for the year through March 2026,