This is a little bit of relief of one of (Ford's) many problems.
This is going to be a difficult year, probably worse than 2005.
This is not a company you would buy for its fundamental attributes or its operational strengths.
This reverses the feeling investors had that a deal would get done by this summer.
Under the value pricing system, on average, the sticker prices are down a couple hundred bucks. To be effective, value pricing has to be four times that, and incentives required to sell vehicles must be removed.
We have today and tomorrow as the last trading sessions of the year. With the stock being down so far, you would be looking at a little bit of tax selling to harvest those capital losses to offset gains in other areas.
What you're getting now with the stock where it is trading, there is a lot of news-event volatility, you get people betting on the next move... they're basically just trading on the momentum being generated by the news.
Whether longer term that actually makes a difference, I have questions about that.
With Ford and GM's dependence on trucks, and a lack of significant meaningful products on the sedan side, they will continue to struggle.
With them losing market share the way they have been, they are most certainly going to lose more, so this just will not be enough.
You really start to wonder whether anyone is going to buy a car at regular price anymore.
You've got three different parties here -- GM, Delphi and the UAW -- trying to figure out what GM's obligation is, ... GM could be on the hook for a lot of those UAW workers, but it's not completely clear. It's just a giant bowl of spaghetti right now.
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