In a first for a US carmaker, Tesla crosses $100 bn stock market valuation

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Tesla Inc turned into the first $100 billion (77 billion pounds) freely recorded US carmaker in broadened exchanging on Tuesday, in an indication of Wall Street's trust in an all-electric future.
The achievement comes not exactly a month after Tesla's stock crossed $420, the scandalous cost at which Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk had tweeted he would take the electric vehicle producer private.
Musk tweeted he had "financing verified" to take Tesla private in August 2018, when its offers were exchanging the mid-$330s, just to later surrender under speculator tension and administrative concerns.
Tesla shares were last up 1.4 percent at $555 after the chime, expanding on a 7.2 percent gain during exchanging when business New Street Research raised its value focus to $800. Tesla's reasonable worth additionally puts Musk a bit nearer to winning the first $346 million tranche of choices in a record-breaking pay bundle.
The $100 billion valuation needs to remain for both a one-month and half year normal so as to trigger the vesting of the first of 12 tranches of alternatives allowed to Musk to purchase Tesla stock.
Tesla, which is as of now esteemed more than Ford Motor Co and General Motors Co joined, has seen its stock more than twofold over the most recent three months, fuelled by an uncommon quarterly benefit in October, updates on creation increase in its China industrial facility and superior to anticipated yearly vehicle conveyances.

In another success, Tesla arrived at a settlement with Michigan to enable it to straightforwardly convey its vehicles to clients in the express, an individual acquainted with the understanding said on Tuesday....Read More

Ford investing $1 billion, adding 500 jobs in Chicago factories

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Ford Motor Co said it is investing more than $1 billion in its Chicago operations and adding 500 jobs as it prepares to launch three new SUVs this year and end production of the Taurus.
Ford said it is building a new body shop and paint shop at its Chicago Assembly plant, and making major modifications to the final assembly area. At Chicago Stamping, Ford is adding stamping lines, the company added.

The investment comes as Americans continue to shift away from cars in favour of SUVs, pickup trucks and other larger vehicles. Last year, US industry car sales fell 13 percent, while light trucks rose 8 percent to 10.9 million, accounting for about 63 percent of vehicle sales.
Ford announced last year it was largely exiting the sedan market in the United States with the exception of the Ford Mustang. The company's US car sales fell 18 percent last year, while SUV sales rose 0.5 percent.

The Chicago assembly plant will stop building the Ford Taurus at this end of this month as it boosts SUV production. Ford said last year it was ending North American production of cars like the Focus, Fusion, Fiesta and C-Max.

The full-size Taurus, when introduced in 1985, was credited with reviving profits at Ford. It redefined US car design with its jelly bean shape and was the top-selling model in the United States five times between 1992 and 1997. US Taurus sales, which peaked at 409,000 in 1992, fell to 28,706 last year.

 The Dearborn, Michigan, automaker is eager to highlight that it is building more vehicles than its rivals do in the United States. Ford built nearly 2.4 million vehicles in the United States in 2018.