DCX miss it’s 2002 profit goal?

FRANKFURT, Jan 10 - German carmaker DaimlerChrysler <DCXGn.DE> on Thursday denied a report that its finance chief Manfred Getz said the group may miss its 2002 profit goal.
"He definitely did not say that," a company spokesman in Stuttgart told Reuters, and emphasised the firm was not pessimistic about 2002 and expected a significantly better operating result than in 2001.
DaimlerChrysler shares initially fell over three percent on the back of the report, but pared some of their losses by 0842 GMT to trade down 2.4 percent at 47.50 euros.
Chrysler President Dieter Zetsche and other DaimlerChrysler executives on Wednesday reiterated they were sticking to their target for the Chrsyler arm of breaking even in 2002, but said they could not guarantee the results given uncertain economic forecasts.