DETROIT - The U.S. economy may be showing signs of slowly recovering, but based on experts' estimates that's not reaching U.S. automakers' projections for 2005. Facing increased and aggressive competition from automakers in Asia and Europe, experts say U.S. automakers overall sales will continue their downward trend in 2005 from...

Cy-Fair Federal Credit Union, Houston, has promoted Michelle Bailey to vice president of human resources; Johnette Johnson to vice president of lending and Erin Al-Salman to marketing director. Fort Bliss Federal Credit Union, El Paso, Texas, has named Wayne Condie vice president of lending and Rick Pustejovsky mortgage operations manager.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - The votes are in and the conversion battle at Columbia Credit Union is the story of the year for '04, according to a Credit Union Times' online voting poll. Some 28% of voters selected the Columbia story. Coming in second was "Continued banker attacks", followed...

MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. - 2005 kicks off with a new addition at Kinecta Federal Credit Union - John Carson, CPA has been named senior vice president/chief financial officer. Prior to joining Kinecta, Carson held the position of executive vice president/chief financial officer at San Diego-based USE Credit Union. A former...