As losses mount, suppliers risk cash-flow crunch

摘要

Suppliers' cash-flow woes are going from bad to worse, analysts warn. Nearly every major North American supplier that has reported third-quarter results lost money. With automakers cutting fourth-quarter production and sales expected to lag until 2010, industrywide losses will become the norm, analysts say. Suppliers' overseas operations no longer will offset North American woes. And the meltdown on Wall Street means some will have to rebuild their pension funds.