Ford Motor Co. shares recorded their best monthly gain in 17 years as the automaker’s newfound status as a possible beneficiary of the artificial intelligence boom sparked an investor frenzy.

Ford Motor Co. is in negotiations with defense departments in Europe and North America to supply pickup trucks and software to their armed forces.

Ford Motor Co.’s blistering rally screeched to a halt Friday, as a broader market selloff cooled enthusiasm over the automaker’s potential to benefit from the boom in energy demand for artificial intelligence.

Ford Motor Co. stock surged Wednesday after Morgan Stanley issued a bullish call that the automaker’s energy storage business could soon make a deal with hyperscalers.

Everything about Ford Motor Co.’s Long Beach, California, “skunkworks” operation was designed so that its crack engineering team could dream up a new electric vehicle lineup that broke with convention. And yet after years of tinkering, the automaker is aiming to reinvent a form it didn’t get right the first time: the pickup truck.

Ford Motor Co. is in early discussions with the Trump administration about working on defense projects, Chief Executive Officer Jim Farley said.

Ford Motor Co.’s top electric vehicle executive — whose arrival at the automaker was heralded as a “watershed moment” — is leaving the company as part of a sweeping reorganization to merge its EV and manufacturing operations. Doug Field, 61, said Wednesday he’s stepping down from his position as chief EV, digital and design officer to pursue undefined opportunities sharing what he’s learned from his career at Ford, Apple Inc. and Tesla Inc. Ford said Field’s duties will be assumed by Chief Operating Officer Kumar Galhotra. Bloomberg's Craig Trudell joins to discuss. (Source: Bloomberg)

Ford Motor Co. has held discussions with China’s Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co. about sharing manufacturing capacity in Europe, with the US carmaker seeking new global partnerships as it overhauls its electric vehicle strategy.

SK Innovation Co. said the termination of a battery joint venture with Ford Motor Co. in the US resulted in a 3.7 trillion won ($2.6 billion) asset loss, as the cost of a pullback in global electric vehicle ambitions ripples through the supply chain.

SK Innovation Co. said the termination of a battery joint venture with Ford Motor Co. in the US resulted in a 3.7 trillion won ($2.6 billion) asset loss, as the cost of a pullback in global electric vehicle ambitions ripples through the supply chain.

Ford Motor Co. canceled a 9.6 trillion won ($6.5 billion) battery agreement with LG Energy Solution Ltd. after the US automaker rolled back its electric vehicle ambitions.