Automobile Manufacturers

Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) reported a 3% rise in its vehicle sales in China for July. Ford's vehicle sales in China came in at 32,320 units in July. For the January-July period, sales by Ford and its joint ventures rose 13% y/y to 306,830 units. Ford shares gained 0.77% to $10.49 in after-...

Thor Industries, Inc. (NYSE: THO) announced today that its Board of Directors approved an increase of its regular quarterly dividend to 15 cents per share. This represents a 50% increase over its previous regular quarterly dividend of 10 cents per share. The new regular dividend will be paid on...

Ford (NYSE: F) and SunPower Corp. (NASDAQ: SPWRA) have teamed up to offer customers a rooftop solar system that will allow Focus Electric owners to "Drive Green for Life" by providing customers with enough clean, renewable energy to offset the electricity used to charge the vehicle. "Under the '...

Deutsche Bank has published a report on General Motors (NYSE: GM) covering the company's global business conference. In the report, Deutsche Bank wrote, "GM hosted its annual business meeting in Detroit. Our overall takeaway was that mgmt sounded very confident of the company's outlook (GM's...

J.P. Morgan is out with its report today on General Motors (NYSE: GM), maintaining Overweight. In its report, J.P. Morgan writes, "We rate GM shares Overweight as the company offers considerable medium-term opportunities with its product cycle in most regions at near trough levels, a sound balance...

Bank of America has published a report on GM (NYSE: GM) after a business conference for analysts. In the report, Bank of America wrote, "During a series of presentations, the company highlighted some of its current operating strategies and execution targets. In our view, the primary takeaways were...

Bank of America added Ford Motors (NYSE: F) to its U.S. 1 list. At the moment, the rating agency has a Buy rating and a price target of $26 placed on the company's stock. On Monday, F closed the day at $9.93. Its shares added 3.73% to their value in today's pre-market trading to stand around $10.30...

Morgan Stanley provided color on General Motors (NYSE: GM). In a research report, Morgan Stanley stressed that in case of a double dip recession, GM's stock could fall as low as $10. In the report, Morgan Stanley states, “Downside scenario: Severe global recession. GM volume falls 15% in 2012,...

According to Reuters, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is looking into Ford (NYSE: F) and Volkswagen for potential safety issues with the Mustang and Jetta, respectively. New Ford Mustangs could potentially have manual transmissions that face possible shifting problems and the...

Here are today's mid-day options volume leaders… 1. Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) 293,912 contracts, 36.9% calls, 63.1% puts 2. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) 147,081 contracts, 65.3% calls, 34.7% puts 3. JP Morgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) 92,672 contracts, 41.8% calls, 58.2% puts 4. Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C)...

The markets have now completed the head and shoulder pattern target at $115.00 on the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (NYSE: SPY). The head and shoulder pattern can be seen clearly on the chart below. This pattern was a classic technical bearish signal. In this situation, it completed in record time. With the...

J.P. Morgan is out with its report today on General Motors (NYSE: GM), maintaining Overweight. In its report, J.P. Morgan writes, "We rate GM shares Overweight as the company offers considerable medium-term opportunities with its product cycle in most regions at near trough levels, a sound balance...

Reuters is reporting that Honda Motor (NYSE: HMC) has announced a recall for 1.5 million of its CR-V, Accord, and Element models in the U.S with almost another million cars from Chinese and Canadian markets. Honda is recalling the 2007 to 2010 CR-V, the 2005 to 2010 four-cylinder Accord, and the...

Honda Motor (NYSE: HMC) said Friday it will recall more than 2 million vehicles in the United States and China to update the software that controls their automatic transmission. Honda said in a press release on its US site that the vehicles in the voluntary recall will include Accord, CR-V and...

We already had a "Morning in America" column a few months ago, but after today's nonfarm payrolls report, it looks like it is time for another one. The July nonfarm payrolls report just was just released, and it smashed expectations, coming in at 117,000. Economists had expected 84,000 jobs to be...