Just take a look at the stock of large US export companies after China released data that showed a slow down in their economies last week: Toyota Motor Company (NYSE:TM) down 1.92%, Honda (NYSE:HMC) down 2.12%, GM (NYSE:GM) down 2.09%, Ford (NYSE:F) down 1.24%, Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT) down 0.52%, Sony Corporation (NYSE:SNE) down 7.30%, Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) down .20%, Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) down 1.37%, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) down 2.82%, Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) down 1.21 %, and 3M (NYSE:MMM) down 1.35 percent.

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Tokuo Fukuichi, who, as the chief of design for parent company Toyota Motor Corp.

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That is "a record high" for the company, according to Toyota Motor senior managing director Takeshi Suzuki.

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At the Shanghai motor show in April, Toyota president Akio Toyoda announced that the company was studying producing in China key components of its hybrid vehicles (HV), such as batteries and motors.

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The traditional model for a captive finance company is a wholly owned subsidiary like Ford Motor Credit Co. or Toyota Financial Services.

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