Hints and tips:
...Darryl Jorgenson steps into his cherry-red Ford pick-up truck and apologises for the glitter in the back seat. It is left over from his son’s prom night....
...But studio chief Darryl Zanuck overruled them. “The kid stays in the picture,” Zanuck announced in a telegram, bequeathing what years later would become the title of Evans’ hit memoir....
...When Richard Linklater first planned to make a war film, he sought the advice of Francis Ford Coppola. It seemed sensible — in 1979 Coppola had released a landmark of the form in Apocalypse Now....
...Sitting in a deluxe north African hotel, Francis Ford Coppola, 77, is voluble and a-twinkle. He’s often that, even in extremis. We’re in the eye of difficult, violent times — religious and historical....
...Chris Ford, Towers Watson global head of investment, suggests to John Authers a smart way to deal with end of QE....
...When Trumeter, a Manchester-based maker of measurement devices and car lighting, won a £50m ($78m) order from Ford for interior lamps, it naturally turned to its banks to finance the production needed....
...He has had for most of his adult life an uncanny ability to pick the right time to buy and sell, although he lost millions recently when he sold a large stake in Ford for a hefty loss....
...Darryl Siry, Tesla’s head of sales and marketing, resigned, saying he was uncomfortable with the extent to which the company was relying on deposits for the Model S to fund its operations....
...Toyota, General Motors, Ford Motor and BMW are among the other automakers also testing hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles....
...Car makers reversed on nagging growth fears after overnight falls for US rivals General Motors and Ford....
...Domestic rival Renault, which denied rumours it was considering making an offer for Ford, fell 2.2 per cent to €80.45. Porsche eased 0.3 per cent to €640.19....
...billionaire investor Kirk Kerkorian was prepared to make a cash offer for 28m shares in ailing General Motors outweighed Standard & Poor’s announcement that it was downgrading the debt ratings of GM and Ford...
...The sector’s bumpy ride continued into a second session after falling on Monday due to last week’s earnings warning from US car giant Ford....
...European stocks ended four days of gains as a gloomy outlook from US car giant Ford cast a shadow over the auto sector. The FTSE Eurofirst 300 finished the session 0.2 per cent lower at 1,101.08....
...There was talk that the German bank was exposed to bonds in GM and Ford, which were cut to “junk” last week. There were also concerns the bank was involved with a struggling hedge fund....
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