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The US automaker Ford (NYSE: F) stock has taken a hit in the recent downturn and plunged from $25 to almost near $10 per share since January 2022. The ongoing shortage of semiconductors also caused solid bearish momentum. …

Suppliers, ready to help (they buy > $50B from you)? “Everything is on the table…If we’re going to take out $3B over the next 2–3 yrs …Ford CEO: automaker needs ‘totally different talent’ to meet goals…We don’t have that talent at Ford.” Bloomberg reported on July 20, citing unnamed sources…

Bill took David and me on a ride through the Vermont countryside, and it changed me a little bit. Today I rode with David as passengers in a 1931 Ford Model A, successor to the Model T, that had been Ford’s standard for eighteen years because Henry Ford resisted the…

TESLA v FORD INVESTMENT HORIZON The investment horizon considered here is a short-term trend that could last 2–6 weeks. In Tesla, the trend is still down in the monthly time frame. Whereas Ford’s trend is down in weekly and monthly time frames. …

Ford’s ambitions are to transition its entire electric vehicle business online — a move that has some franchise dealers feeling perplexed. A sense of confusion and frustration is understandable: the car business has been conducted a certain way for decades, and franchise dealerships have strong protections in place by legislators…