Nissan’s April-December profit crashed to 5.1 billion yen ($33 million), a tiny fraction of the 325 billion yen the Japanese automaker earned the previous year. Nine-month sales dropped less than 1% to 9.

After Honda walked away from merger talks, Nissan finds itself at a crossroads. Could tech giant Foxconn or private equity firm KKR be the lifelines it desperately needs?

Honda and Nissan announced Thursday they were terminating negotiations for a mega-merger that would have created the world's third-largest car company.