GM plans to announce stepped up cost cuts-sources

Email |Print | Reprints [-] Text [+] DETROIT, April 26 (Reuters) - General Motors Corp (GM.N: Quote, Profile, Research) isset to announce on Monday an accelerated restructuring thatwould close additional plants and pave the way for a debtexchange by the struggling automaker, sources briefed on theplan said on Sunday.

Chief Executive Fritz Henderson has scheduled a newsconference for Monday morning to discuss the automaker'srevised viability plan. He had said earlier in April that GMwould provide more frequent updates.

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