Germany Earns MAN

Georg Pachta-Reyhofen, CEO of the MAN Group, gestures during the annual press conference of the company in Munich, southern Germany, Monday, Feb. 15, 2010. The bus and truck maker lost euro 472 million ($642 million) in the fourth quarter of 2009 amid a steep drop in demand due to the economic downturn, the company said Monday. MAN said the loss compared with net income of euro 177 million in the fourth quarter of 2008. Revenue for the October-December period fell 18 percent to euro 3.3 billion from nearly euro4 billion in the fourth quarter of 2008. (AP Photo/dapd, Uwe Lein)