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Nissan's Profit Drops by 90%

The embattled firm has been buffeted by poor performance in the United States and Europe and the scandal of financial misconduct charges against former boss Carlos Ghosn (AFP Photo/Behrouz MEHRI)

This is massive: Nissan saw its quarterly earnings go south by 90%. This is not a laughing matter - empires can go like that. The automotive sector will witness creative destruction at scale.

The Nikkei business daily said earlier Wednesday that Nissan would announce a 90 percent drop in operating profit for the first quarter because of declining US sales, with the cost of developing electric vehicles and autonomous driving technologies weighing on profits.