Alcoa Has a Plan for Zero Emissions. Buy the Stock While It’s a Bargain.

The outlook for aluminum is brightening, and so are the prospects for Alcoa, probably the best pure play on the versatile and light metal—and a cheap one. Alcoa stock (ticker: AA) looks like a bargain...

Three Astounding Cryptos You May Regret Skipping: Uniglo (GLO), F…

FOMO – fear of missing out. This is one of the key motivators for retail investors when buying a cryptocurrency. They see the price going up and they don’t want to miss out, so they ape in only ...

Opinion: Ford’s job cuts are just the beginning of another EV earthquake

Electric vehicles, or EVs, promise a green automotive revolution, but this will not come without uncomfortable transitions in the labor force. Those trade-offs are coming starkly into focus, raising q...

Ford Confirms Layoffs, Says It Is Cutting About 3,000 Jobs

Updated Aug. 22, 2022 4:58 pm ET Listen to article (2 minutes) Ford Motor confirmed Monday it is laying off roughly 3,000 white-collar and contract employees, marking the latest in its efforts to slas...

Ford Stock Falls on $1.7 Billion Verdict in Fatal Truck Rollover. Ford to Appeal.

Text size A large jury award against Ford has investors nervous Monday. Scott Olson/Getty Images Ford Motor stock was falling in premarket trading Monday because of a potentially large legal bill. A j...

Recession Is Already Here for Many Small Businesses

When central bankers and economists gather in Jackson Hole, Wyo., this coming week to debate the trajectories of inflation and monetary policy, there will be hopeful talk of peak prices and renewed di...

Ford Faces $1.7 Billion Verdict in Fatal Rollover of F-250 Pickup

Ford Motor is facing a potential $1.7 billion in punitive damages after a Georgia jury reached a verdict Friday in a case involving a 2014 rollover of a Ford F-250 pickup truck that left two people de...

GM Reinstates Dividend. Ford’s Yield Is Higher.

Text size GM stock was rising after the auto maker said it was reinstating its dividend. Bill Pugliano/Getty Images American automotive giant General Motors is returning capital to shareholders again—...

Ford’s green bond sees $5 billion in demand as Biden signs climate bill

Investors swarmed over Ford Motor Co.’s new $1.75 billion green-bond deal on Tuesday to help boost its development of more electric vehicles. Order books for Ford’s F, +0.67% speculative-grade debt de...

The New EV Tax Credit Won’t Cover All Teslas and Other Cars. How It Will Work.

New electric-vehicle tax credits depend on where the cars are assembled, what the EVs cost, and how much money buyers make. Stefani Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images Text size The Inflation Reduction Act shou...

Tesla, Ford attract new investments from Soros’s fund

Billionaire investor George Soros’s investment fund has bought stakes in Tesla Inc. and Ford Motor Co. and added to existing stakes in EV makers Lucid Group Inc. and Nio Inc., according to a filing la...

Ford Raises Price for F-150 Lightning Electric Pickup Truck

Text size Ford’s F-150 Lightning truck previously cost around $40,000 to $90,000. It now ranges up to $96,874. Courtesy of Ford Ford Motor has increased the price of its electric F-150 Lightning...

We’re Trimming One Stock to Add to Another

After you receive this alert, we will make the following trades: Sell 820 shares of Ford Motor (F) at or near $15.35. After the trade, the portfolio will own 7,850 F shares, roughly 3.3% of the portfo...

Auto makers warn most electric vehicles won’t qualify for federal tax credit

But the auto industry is warning that the vast majority of EV purchases won’t qualify for a tax credit that large. That’s mainly because of the bill’s requirement that, to qualify for the credit, an e...

Ford’s New F-150 Lightning Truck to Get Price Hike

Updated Aug. 9, 2022 1:22 pm ET Listen to article (1 minute) Ford Motor new all-electric truck is getting a price increase fewer than four months after it started shipping to dealerships for the first...

Tesla, EV Makers Stand to Get Billions for Factories From Senate Bill

The Senate climate bill passed over the weekend offers billions of dollars for electric-vehicle and battery factories, and includes rules that the auto industry says will make it tougher for some cons...

Tesla and 9 Other Companies That Would Take a Hit From a 15% Minimum Corporate Tax

Text size Nvidia has had a 4.7% tax rate and average pretax profit of $4.8 billion. Here, a cryptocurrency mining rig is equipped with Nvidia Geforce GPU at the Thailand Crypto Expo 2022. Andre Malerb...

10 Companies That Would Take a Hit From a 15% Minimum Corporate Tax

Text size Nvidia has had a 4.7% tax rate and average pretax profit of $4.8 billion. Here, a cryptocurrency mining rig is equipped with Nvidia Geforce GPU at the Thailand Crypto Expo 2022. Andre Malerb...

Auto Makers Expect Car Sales to Defy Economic Gloom

Listen to article (2 minutes) Even as consumer spending cools, one place buyers continue to splurge is at the car dealership. Auto executives reporting earnings earlier this week displayed confidence ...

Ford Motor, Hershey, and McKesson Just Raised Their Dividends

Text size Bags of Hershey Kisses. The chocolate giant raised its quarterly dividend by 15%. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Ford Motor , Hershey , and McKesson were among the large U.S. companies that decl...

Ford Bronco Engine-Failure Reports Spur Federal Safety Investigation

The top U.S. auto-safety regulator is opening an investigation into reported catastrophic engine failures with some Ford Bronco vehicles, yet another setback in the auto maker’s efforts to improve its...

Ford, GM earnings preview: Will 2022 outlooks be intact?

General Motors Co. and Ford Motor Co. are scheduled to report second-quarter earnings on Tuesday and Wednesday, with investors worried about their guidance for the year amid fears of a recession. GM G...

Apple, Amazon, Meta Highlight Tech-Heavy Earnings Week

Tech giants Apple Amazon.com and Microsoft headline a busy earnings week amid growing investor fears of recession, rising interest rates and surging inflation. A little more than one-third of S&P ...

VW Board Ousts CEO Herbert Diess After Pivot to Electric Vehicles

Key shareholders in Volkswagen joined forces with labor leaders to oust Chief Executive Officer Herbert Diess, who was in the midst of a push to turn the German auto company into a top maker of electr...

Ford Now Has Enough Batteries to Grow EV Deliveries Faster Than Tesla—Profitably

Text size The Rouge Electric Vehicle Center Ford plant. Courtesy of Ford Batteries are a critical success factor for any auto maker looking to win electric-vehicle market share. Ford Motor sad it has ...

Ford Plans to Cut Several Thousand Salaried Jobs

Ford Motor Co. is planning to cut several thousand white-collar workers as it looks to trim costs to position the company for a long-range transition to electric vehicles, according to people familiar...

CATL Might Bring Battery Capacity to America With Mexico Plant, Report Says.

Text size Contemporary Amperex Technology is the largest and most valuable battery maker. Qilai Shen/Bloomberg The electric-vehicle battery giant Contemporary Amperex Technology might be readying its ...

Tesla, Ford, and GM’s Plan to Unlock EV Battery Capacity

Text size Panasonic will put up an EV battery plant in Kansas. It’s the latest of a long list of planned battery plants coming to North America. David Becker/Getty Images Lithium batteries are t...

Ford Closes EV Battery Deal With Partner. Billions in Spending Is Coming.

Text size Ford is aiming to sell two million EVs globally a year by 2026. Christof Stache/AFP via Getty Images Ford Motor and Korea’s SK Innovation sealed the deal on the creation of a joint venture t...

Tesla Is Doing to Car Makers What Apple Did to Nokia. Will History Repeat?

Text size Volkswagen’s software delays underscore why Tesla will be so hard to catch, according to one analyst. Sean Gallup/Getty Images Tesla is disrupting the car business, a little like how A...