Boeing said it had around $10.5 billion in cash and short-term assets on hand at the end of the third quarter. Wall Street analysts have estimated it will need anywhere from $10 billion to $15 billion to sustain it through its prolonged cash crunch.

Boeing (NYSE:BA) is deciding whether it will sell assets such as underperforming business units to raise cash as the plane maker seeks to overcome its recent crises, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday,

Boeing is exploring asset sales in a bid to boost its fragile finances by shedding its non-core or underperforming units, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. The planemaker last week reached an agreement to offload a small defense unit that makes surveillance equipment for the US military,